Most of the money spent on electronic discovery today is squandered on reviewing irrelevant documents, according to a white paper recently released by Forensics Consulting Solutions, of Phoenix, Ariz. According to the document authored by Mark G. Walker, Roland J. Bernier III and Barclay Blair, only about 10 percent of all Electronically Stored Information (ESI) collected has value for the purpose for which it was gathered. "Yet," the authors stated, "investigators spend 80 percent of their time and the associated cost on the 90 percent that has no value."

Organizations are spending millions of dollars finding, processing, reviewing, and producing digital information required in lawsuits, the paper said. It noted that one out of five organizations spends more than $10 million annually on litigation--and that doesn't include what's spent on settlements and judgment awards. That...

Get your "Take Control Contest" game card stamped by participating sponsors at "Take Control Tuesday" in the Partner Expo and watch for prize drawings throughout the evening.

And if you don’t get your card filled with stamps in time for the "Take Control Tuesday" drawings, no worries. You can get them stamped on Wednesday too. You just need to turn in your card by 9:00 a.m. on Thursday to be eligible for the grand prize drawing.

Also, for the next three days of Symantec Vision 2010, there will be exciting prizes handed out by various Symantec groups. Be sure to stop by the Symantec Control Center in the Expo Hall to enter for the following prizes: Symantec Connect: Two Apple iPads The Endpoint Virtualization team: An HP TouchSmart 600t Series The Information Management Group and Altiris Beta Program teams:

• Symantec Connect: Two Apple iPads
• The Endpoint Virtualization team: An HP TouchSmart...

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You can hop on over and follow our Facebook page here. And you can follow our Twitter page right here.

During Vision in Las Vegas this week, stop by the Internet Lounge and sign up to follow our Symantec corporate Facebook and Twitter pages and then drop your business card into our drawing for a free iPad. You can also Create an...

RF Ideas is a Vision sponsor and should have a great demo in booth 22.  They provide the card reader and ‘sonar’ system that’s used with Symantec Workspace Corporate in healthcare for HIPAA and auto-locking of workstations.  Or really any other environments where users share a workstation or are ‘kiosking’ (yes, it’s a word), like a retail counter.  Our full Endpoint Virtualization multi-machine healthcare demo of SWC will be running in their booth with all the kit, which integrated completely into our single sign on solution.  Stop by and test sonar based logoff!

Dr. Brad