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eDiscovery: Litigation and the BP's Gulf Deepwater Disaster

By Dick Weisinger

On April 20th an explosion of a BP deepwater drilling rig 40 miles offshore Louisiana was the start of what is shaping up to be the largest environmental disaster ever in U.S history.  Upwards of 1000 barrels of oil have

Records Management: Government Out of Compliance

By Dick Weisinger

Corporations aren’t the only ones struggling to keep up with the demands of compliance and records management. Government agencies may be some of the worst culprits. The National Archives (NARA) recently asked 224 federal agencies to self-evaluate their current handling

Cloud Computing: A Storage Dilema for Federal Agencies

By Dick Weisinger

Enterprises of all size are being hit hard by the huge growth in the amount of data they they need to manage.  And federal agencies are no exception.  Federal agencies are managing 14 times the amount of data that was

Records Management: NARA Warns Agencies About Cloud Computing

By Dick Weisinger

NARA has issued federal agencies guidelines and warnings about the use of cloud computing for managing their record keeping.  The Obama administration has encouraged agencies to consider adoption of cloud-computing.  In response, NARA has presented their perspective of how agencies

Records Management: Organizations Stumble in Extending Policies to Electronic Documents

By Dick Weisinger

Records Management is hard.  While the principles seem straight forward enough, and while most organizations are fully aware of what needs to be done, many companies have stumbled in updating their old paper-based policies to new ones that involve electronic