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A Unique Information Management Strategy
Reduces Risk, Cost and Complexity While
Boosting Efficiency
YOU HAVE FACED THE FACTS about your organization’s information: it’s
growing exponentially. On top of that you’re likely only using about 35
percent of your storage capacity. Some of you may even know that most
of your data is inactive and unstructured — but up to 95 percent? And if
you’re ever the target of a lawsuit — and the record says you will be – you
will likely need the help of expensive attorneys to access, categorize and
prepare your data. To boot, the list of compliance mandates — HIPAA,
FCRA, FACTA, SOX, GLB, FCPA, C-SOX and the new Nevada and Massachusetts encryption rules — add another layer of complexity, one with
serious consequences if not handled well and in a timely fashion. Layer
on top of that the unprecedented pressure to maximize efficiencies with
lower budgets and smaller staffs.
If you’ve got all those covered then congratulations, you have
addressed the basics. The real challenge for those managing information, records, electronic records, email, files, etc., is evolving your strategy
from “protect and store” to a full spectrum approach: intelligent information management.
An intelligent information management strategy can create or unlock
intelligence embedded in the data you are backing up and recovering,
archiving, or otherwise storing and managing. This unlocked intelligence
