Category: Information Governance
IBM to Acquire StoredIQ
StoredIQ Acquisition Provides Major Upgrade in Capabilities for IBM in Advanced Information Governance ARMONK, N.Y., Dec. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — IBM IBM +0.13% today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire StoredIQ Inc., a privately held company based in Austin, Texas. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. StoredIQ will advance IBM’s [...]
HP Attempts to Hide Poor Performance With Claims of Accounting Fraud Against Autonomy
On Tuesday November 20, 2012 HP announced a $7 billion loss which included an $8.8 billion write-off. The company has attributed $5.5 billion of the $8.8 billion in write-offs to newly found irregularities in accounting practices by Autonomy, the UK eDiscovery, Information Governance and Big Data Search software giant that HP purchased for $10 [...]
Daegis Enters the Computer Assisted eDiscovery Race as the Legal Market Reaches the Tipping Point
Daegis, a leading provider of eDiscovery software and services, has joined the rush to Computer Assisted eDiscovery and announced the launch of its Apache Hadoop-based Technology Assisted Review (TAR) solution known as Acumen. According to Daegis, Acumen is designed to reduce the high costs associated with document review while increasing accuracy and defensibility. Fully integrated [...]
Roadmap for Selling eDiscovery Technology into the Enterprise
This is the first in a series of articles in which I will focus on the customer centric sales and marketing strategies required to successfully sell eDiscovery, Information Governance, Big Data analytic tools and cloud computing infrastructure into the enterprise. The first article will focus on the history of eDiscovery sales and the expansion of [...]
Virtual Federated Data Stores are an Attractive Alternative to Massive Central Data Stores
An integrated and centralized data store model that enables stakeholders from throughout an organization to harvest and analyze data on the same platform continues to be the goal of many organizations from the Global 2000 as they strive to address the requirements of Big Data. However, with today’s decentralized and cloud based storage systems and [...]
StoredIQ Reinvents Itself in a Big Data Way
Over the past five (5) years StoredIQ has had more than its fair share of ups and downs. Founded in 2001, venture backed StoredIQ began to establish itself as a “next generation” player in the eDiscovery software market around 2005. However, after being overlooked for a large consolidation move in 2009, StoredIQ seemed to loose its way and couldn’t [...]
Five Initial Steps to Meet the Governance, Risk and Compliance Obligations Brought on by Today’s Big Data File Stores
The accelerating increase in the amount of unstructured Electronically Stored Information (ESI) is leaving IT organizations struggling with how to store and manage all of this new information. Aside from just providing the underlying storage infrastructure to host this amount of data, companies are also faced with the task of properly managing their Big Data [...]
Amazon is Overlooking the Fiancial Value of eDiscovery
On April 4, 2012, Dick Harris posted a really interested article on Gigacom.com titled ”How the cloud could boost Amazon’s slow-moving margins“. Mr. Harris quoted an analyst from Morgan Stanley who indicated that Amazon’s cloud computing division could be a shining star (even if not too bright) on the company’s long road toward increased profit margins. However, [...]
eDiscovery Will Follow the Cloud Computing Boom
The National Inflation Association (NIA) reported this week that after years of rumors about cloud computing going mainstream around the world, the cloud computing boom is now finally here. They predict that by the year 2013, cloud computing could become a bigger boom on Wall Street than the dot-com boom was in the year 2000. Cloud computing [...]
Navigating into the New World of Information Governance
Over the past six (6) months I have spend many hours talking to CEOs, the General Counsel and CIOs of some the largest companies in the world about information governance and eDiscovery. And, the common theme has been that there is a tremendous amount of confusion in regards to where the market is headed and which technologies [...]
