Atlanta, GA - July 30, 2009 - eMag Solutions, LLC, an international provider of enterprise content management (ECM) and electronic discovery solutions, announced today the introduction of its newest program to help clients reduce costs and risk while promoting organizational effectiveness. eMag's data migration and reclamation service helps corporations proactively manage large stores of data. The new program utilizes the eMag PreVu hosted data portal and leverages the company's expertise around accessing and processing legacy and archive media, particularly backup tapes, along with industry-leading culling technology.

Through both regular business operations and as a result of acquisitions, even companies adhering to strict retention policies find themselves amassing significant amounts of corporate data, much in the form of backup tapes. Due to the portability of tape and its use as a form of corporate archive to achieve compliance with regulatory or corporate governance requirements, organizations working with backup tapes face massive amounts of information scattered across multiple locations, data centers, and third-party warehousing facilities.

Few organizations possess the expertise to effectively organize these mountains of archived information to ensure knowledge of what is there let alone what needs to be kept. Most of the products in the current marketplace are designed to address newer data, leaving older data that is stored off-site or in legacy media outside of archiving solutions, so in addition to the immediate financial costs of storage, companies also face the long-term risk of unnecessarily holding what may potentially be discoverable data in future litigation, regulatory or compliance matters.

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Employee turnover is not just a human resources issue at most corporations. Using today's technology, many employees create, produce and store communications and work product not just electronically, but in virtual environments. The gadgets and communication methods at our disposal result in corporate proprietary information – even confidential data – routing through e-mails, voice mails, and instant messages. And all of this data is no longer stored on corporate networks, rather, it is found on laptops and cell phones that may or may not belong to the employer. But all of this data belongs to the organization for which the individual is employed, so what does this mean for corporate IT departments when employees leave the company?

This article will discuss the different ways in which data that rightfully belongs to an employer is taken outside the company, and will offer some solutions to help reduce the risk of losing proprietary data as a result of employee departures.

Key topics include:

• The Revolving Door of Employees
• Practical and Legal Concerns Stemming from Departing Employees
• Challenges of Mobile Employees
• The Disgruntled Former Employee
• What Organizations Are Doing to Address These Concerns
• Value of Departing Employee Programs
• Considerations in Imaging of Devices and Drives

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When embarking upon the e-disclosure process, many corporations, organisations and law firms are overwhelmed by the volume of data that needs to be examined - not to mention the costs associated with restoring and processing relevant files.

The plentiful supply of inexpensive electronic storage options available today, coupled with increasing regulatory compliance demands, has prompted companies to archive any file, document or correspondence they feel may be valuable at some point in the future. As a result, companies retain tremendous amounts of information, saved on hard drives or back-up media tape. This presents a significant challenge when these firms are subsequently required to produce responsive documents during litigation or regulatory compliance activities. The larger the data pool, the longer it takes to uncover and prepare relevant documents - and the higher the price tag associated with the process.

Advanced technologies are available, however, to reduce the time and costs inherent to e-disclosure activities:

• Pre-culling strategies allow corporate officers and counsel to view data structures and files in their raw native format, allowing exclusion of non-relevant information prior to expensive restoration and processing.


• Non-native data restoration allows firms to restore data without having to re-create the originating or "native" environment - that is, the combination of hardware and software used at the time the materials were preserved.

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*This article was authored by Ian Bartlett, a Solutions Analyst with eMag Solutions Europe and appears in the February isse of Computers & Law (http://www.scl.org).

Do you wonder what the heck EBCDIC is?  Or what about ASCII?  Wonder no more.  Below is a link to a glossary of tape media terms to help you understand even the most complex terminology.  Now, when discussing your backups, you'll sound like a pro! 

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