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Official Google Enterprise Blog: Google Apps Vault Brings Information Governance to Google Apps

By Mark Firehammer, on March 30th, 2012

Just announced from Google Apps, Vault is what many organizations have been waiting for to make the decision to go Cloud based. This is good news!

Google Apps Vault Brings Information Governance to Google Apps Wednesday, March 28, 2012Posted by Jack Halprin, Head of eDiscovery, GoogleToday we’re announcing the availability of Google Apps Vault Vault for Google Apps for Business customers. Vault is an easy-to-use and cost-effective solution for managing information critical to your business and preserving important data. It can reduce the costs of litigation, regulatory investigation and compliance actions.Businesses of all sizes need to be prepared for the unexpected. In today’s environment, using Vault to manage, archive and preserve your data can help protect your business. Litigation costs can really take a toll on a business when minor lawsuits can run up to many thousands of dollars, and larger lawsuits can cost even more. Significant litigation costs come . . . → Read More: Official Google Enterprise Blog: Google Apps Vault Brings Information Governance to Google Apps

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Your Desktop, A Risky Place For Docs!

By Mark Firehammer, on March 10th, 2010

It has a popular sight gag in movies and television to have  someone over in a window, or turn on a fan and have all the paper on someone’s desk blown all over the place.  Just like in real life, your virtual desktop on your computer can be just as risky place to store your important documents.

Just today I had a client contact me urgently because all it is precious documents, and folders full of documents which he was in the habit of keeping right on his desktop we’re gone.  Here’s what happened.

He was deleting items that he no longer needed and in one way or another managed to select multiple items other than the one he wanted to delete.  This kind of thing happens a lot with laptop touchpads.  When he pressed delete, he got rid of what he wanted but that was the moment that he . . . → Read More: Your Desktop, A Risky Place For Docs!

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Personal File Management

By Mark Firehammer, on November 22nd, 2008

Your files are important to you and as time goes on the number of personal files that you create can be mind boggling! What’s worse? Losing your personal data or not being able to find your personal data? It doesn’t matter which answer you choose because the result is the same. Not being able to access an important document is not much different than the document being destroyed because either way you can’t use it. All the more reason to create good file management habits from the very start. Good habits when you have only a few files, will still be in place when you have thousands if not hundreds of thousands of files. The first rule of thumb in file management is to keep all of your files in one place. And the best place to start is the location that was already there for you when you first . . . → Read More: Personal File Management

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