Experts Question ‘Keep Everything’ Philosophy

IT Management Magazine says Storage managers have been barraged by a wave of claims on the subject of data retention . The argument is that every single piece of data has to be retained, since otherwise you could get into severe trouble in the future. And, of course, with disk now being so cheap, the thing to do is just retain everything going forward. The cardinal rule, vendors say, is never ever throw anything away.
The logic presented by this camp is that even an innocuous e-mail about the company picnic could have important legal significance in the future that is unable to predict currently — perhaps a sexual harassment lawsuit in two years time that cites an occurrence at that event.

February 14, 2006 by Uncategorized 0

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