Storage Tip: What errors of data classification can you afford?

By David Hill, Mesabi Group

As a result of recent changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP), you must carefully preserve all relevant data (i.e., data that needs to be saved as possible evidence in litigation). But what is relevant data? Now, you could just preserve all of your data, but it would be costly to unnecessarily preserve data that is not relevant for e-discovery purposes. But separating the relevant data from the irrelevant data may seem intractable. Here's some perspective on how you could approach the issue.