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Brian Babineau, Senior Consulting Analyst
Based in Silicon Valley, Brian covers information management solutions including database management solutions, performance and optimization software, search, and archiving. In addition, his research activities continue to focus on regulatory compliance, corporate governance, as well as electronic discovery. With an accounting background, Brian also supports ESG's financial services offerings to vendors and investors
IT is the group responsible for collecting all data as directed by in-house and external counsel. What many IT staffs do not realize is that some general e-mail management decisions, namely the use of mailbox quotas, actually make discovery tasks more complex and costly. An investment in an e-mail archive ...
"When you're so large and so vast, you have to go out and do a lot of research about where you can add a lot of value with your R&D and work out what problems can be solved," explained Brian Babineau, senior consulting analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group. via HP, ...
In may of my writings (white papers, blogs, etc.), I have referenced Gibson Dunn's semi-annual Electronic Discovery and Information Law updates. These reports succinctly summarize trends in electronic discovery case law and the impact they may have on legal processes and technologies. I am a simple analyst absent ...
Almost every electronic discovery vendor counts "Early Case Assessment" or "ECA" as part of their value proposition. Without fail, each vendor must remind me and the rest of the market on how early they can actually do the assessment. My immediate response is that they are focusing on ...
"The elegant workflow and powerful analytics give legal the ability to analyze data in place, estimate review cost and make strategic 'settle versus argue' decision far earlier in the process," said Brian Babineau, senior analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group. via StoredIQ releases version 6.0 - FierceContentManagement.
When Paul Revere raced through the villages of Massachusetts yelling “The Red Coats are Coming,” I bet you a lot more people would have listened if there were two British soldiers chasing him.  In other words, if Paul Revere had tangible proof or some “examples,” his word ...
The deal continues a trend in which the big storage vendors are clearly moving towards the reduction of primary storage, said Brian Babineau, senior consulting analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group ESG. via eChannelLine USA - IBM buys data-compression vendor Storwize.
ESG has updated its digital archive market forecast—defined as ESG’s estimate of the total, worldwide cumulative capacity of archived electronic information (digital archive capacity) in the commercial and government sectors— through the year 2015. In general, ESG defines digital archiving as: "The long-term retention and management of electronic information that has been ...
Some food for thought as we prepare for the long weekend in the United States: Xyratex must be wondering what it has to do to raise its stock price.  The company reported its fiscal q2 earnings yesterday which included beating street top and bottom line estimates and in-line guidance.  The stock ...
I recently wrote a piece highlighting how organizations can better manage data on tapes without actually having to go through a restore process. The concept of tape remediation may be understood, but it is rarely prioritized by IT departments. And, more than likely, corporate attorneys have never heard ...