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Does your company have legacy data backup tapes? Prior to present day email archive services and software, like most organizations, was your company using backup tapes as a “de-facto email archive?” Do you have a large and potentially growing volume of backup tapes? Is the data contained on your backup tapes subject to an ever increasing amount of litigation holds at your company? If you had to, could you cost effectively and efficiently produce the data from your backup tapes? Do you even know what you have on your backup tapes?

Corporate IT is responsible for making sure your company backups are run every night, however, it isn’t their responsibility to know exactly what type of data exists on these tapes. Would you know where to begin if you had to produce data in a short period of time?

Most importantly, are you aware of the risks as well as the costs associated with risk of maintaining backup tapes you are no longer required to keep? Can you really afford to continue to hold onto out of scope tapes?

TDS’s Strategic Tape Discovery Service allows an organization to gain an understanding of the type of legacy data it has by providing you with a “custodian map.” More importantly, the implementation of our service provides for a strategic, iterative, and defensible plan that will give your company the ability to determine what legacy data needs to be maintained and what can be destroyed. Following our proactive and strategic approach, your company will be well positioned to address legal holds where it’s likely you have swept up email from backup tapes for many more users than you are obligated to maintain leading to unnecessary exposure and risk.

By implementing TDS’s Strategic Tape Discovery Service, your organization stands to benefit by defensibly reducing risk and significantly reducing the costs associated with risk.

Also of importance, should your company find itself in litigation where a substantial amount of data from backup tapes is requested, with a proactive and strategic tape discovery plan in place, courts will likely look upon your organization more favorably than if you are unprepared to address the tape discovery request.