Archive360 In the Media

In this special guest feature, Bill Tolson, VP of Global Compliance & eDiscovery, discusses the big question surrounding Big Data: when (and how) can information be legally deleted? What’s needed is the right combination of technology and policy. Bill has long been an advocate for strategic data deletion, and has authored numerous books and articles on subjects around it.

The relentless decline in the cost of storage has made it cheaper to retain information than to throw it away. That plays well to the human propensity for keeping stuff around, a hoarding instinct that has made the US self-storage industry a $40 billion business.

While some data clearly has value and should be kept, other pieces of data can actually be deleterious to a company’s financial and legal health and should be disposed as soon as legally possible...Click below to read this article in Datanami.

For cloud security specialists, these are strange times, indeed. The SaaS model may have investors seeing dollar signs, but is it, in fact, the best way to ensure cloud security, and specifically the security of data stored in the cloud?