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When Pressing Delete Is OK: Learn How to Eliminate ROT in Your Organization

AIIM

This causes enough problems by itself, but when you then add to the pile all the redundant, obsolete, and trivial (ROT) information you have in your systems, on your file shares, and in every other possible location, it’s a real nightmare. Don’t Let Your Information ROT. Identifying and Evaluating ROT.

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Tips for Folder Structure Design and Cleanup

The Texas Record

Below are some tips to help your shared drive structures get into and stay in shape. Disposition Dispose of the ROT—redundant, obsolete, trivial—items before creating a new file structure. Shared file environments can be a real challenge to organize and maintain. Consistency Choose file naming conventions and stick with them.

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ESI, ROT, and LBJ – Thoughts on Data Management While Visiting the Lyndon Johnson Presidential Library: eDiscovery Trends

eDiscovery Daily

But first, this week’s eDiscovery Tech Tip of the Week is about Issuing a Timely Legal Hold. In 2016, a study by Veritas found that as much as 85% of ESI is Redundant, Obsolete, or Trivial (ROT). most of it ROT. How does your organization keep ROT at bay? So, what do you think?

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RIM-brain in Movies and TV

The Texas Record

The ~4,000 humans who called the planet their home had to be saved by The Library’s data core (the mind of the aforementioned little girl) or else they would become the primary food source for the Vashta Nerada. Humans were also at risk of becoming data ghosts, which are like digital zombies as the result of data degradation (a.k.a.

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Does Your Content Drive Organizational Value?

AIIM

Many document-driven business functions have either reached or are reaching their ‘tipping point’ for automation – the point where automating processes becomes critical to accomplishing core tasks with high quality and in a timely manner. The result: an unmitigated content mess!

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Will The Real Donald Sterling Please Stand Up? A true story about the 1st target of cancel culture.

Information Governance Perspectives

It murdered my best friend one New Year’s Eve, leaving his bruised, punctured corpse to rot all week on the floor of a Malibu drug den. Serpent-like and demonic, its blazing eyes feasted on our insecurities, constantly tempting us to seek validation from the bottom of a flask, the tip of a syringe, the end of a joint, or the arms of a lover.

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Cancel Culture Target #1: Will The Real Donald Sterling Please Stand Up?

Information Governance Perspectives

It murdered my best friend one New Year’s Eve, leaving his bruised, punctured corpse to rot all week on the floor of a Malibu drug den. Serpent-like and demonic, its blazing eyes feasted on our insecurities, constantly tempting us to seek validation from the bottom of a flask, the tip of a syringe, the end of a joint, or the arms of a lover.

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