Jim McGann serves as Vice President of Information Discovery for Index Engines. He has extensive experience with the eDiscovery and Information Management. He is currently contributing to the Sedona working group addressing electronic document retention and production. Jim is also a frequent speaker for industry organizations such as ARMA and ILTA, and has authored multiple articles for legal technology and information management publications.
In recent years Jim has worked for technology based start-ups that provided financial services and information management solutions. Prior to Index Engines, he worked for leading software firms, including Information Builders and the French based engineering software provider Dassault Systemes. Jim was responsible for the Business Development of Scopeware at Mirror Worlds Technologies, the knowledge management software firm founded by Dr. David Gelernter of Yale University. Jim graduated from Villanova University with a degree in Mechanical Engineering.
"How many backup tapes do you have?"
"I have no idea - probably thousands."
"Do you need to keep them?"
"No."
"Why don't you recycle them?"
"Legal won't let us."
This might be a typical storage manager's response when questioned about a
company's backup tape stockpile. These tapes are often created in response to
a key objective of any IT organization - to protect enterprise data assets.
Thus a mountain of old backup tapes has been amassed, largely tapes that have
long outlived their disaster recovery purpose. Why not recycle or destroy all
these old tapes? Federal regulations forbid it. Data on these tapes "may" be
necessary to support current or future litigation. What data? A very, very
small percentage of what exists, typically less than 1 percent. Why then keep
all these tapes? Because it has been next to impossible to separate the
useless data from what legal r... (more)
Jim McGann serves as Vice President of Information Discovery for Index Engines. He has extensive experience with the eDiscovery and Information Management. He is currently contributing to the Sedona working group addressing electronic document retention and production. Jim is also a frequent speaker for industry organizations such as ARMA and ILTA, and has authored multiple articles for legal technology and information management publications.
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