RenewData Offers New Data Migration Service

October 5, 2007: Electronic evidence and data migration service provider RenewData has announced it’s latest data management offering, claiming it can help law firms and other organisations identify, de-duplicate and reduce data stored on backup tapes.

Called the Backup Tape Liability Management Service, RenewData says its solution uses a secure process to evaluate the content of backup tapes and eliminate tapes no longer required for legal, regulatory, or retention management purposes.

The company says that through its identification, de-duplication, reduction, and consolidation process it can help address the potential liability residing in large inventories of backup tapes, and reduce unnecessary ongoing storage costs.

RenewData claims that many backup tapes in storage contain antiquated data in obsolete formats, leaving the companies attempting to restore them in-house with technical headaches. Renew is taking a “leave the hard yards to us” approach to identifying and migrating old data, saying it enables corporations to know where their data resides, what type of data they have, and what the data represents before consolidating, migrating or eliminating it.

“Many of our corporate clients are seeking ways to mitigate the liability inherent with storing thousands or even tens of thousands of backup tapes, and they need to ensure any historical data that can be deleted is safely destroyed, while preserved data remains accessible to discovery requests,” said Ellery Buchanan, CEO of RenewData.

“Our Backup Tape Liability Management Service allows corporations to dramatically reduce the costs of retaining data, while potentially diminishing the scope and exposure of litigation holds. In addition, having this process carried out by RenewData experts greatly minimizes later allegations of spoliation or non-compliance.”

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