Definition
Retain email and other records in accordance with corporate policies and government regulations to meet corporate governance and legal requirements.
Challenges
- Storing and archiving unstructured data according to company policies
- Simplifying the search for e-discovery and preservation of unstructured data from email, file shares, Microsoft SharePoint, IM, and more
- Enabling IT or Legal to quickly suspend retention and disposition policies when litigation is anticipated without copying massive volumes of data
- Keeping costs of regulatory fines or discovery sanctions down
Symantec Solution: Discovery & Retention Management
Capture, classify, and store email, instant messages, SharePoint content and files to enforce retention policies, simplify discovery, and reduce storage costs and management overhead.
- Enforce corporate retention and disposition policies
- Implement a defensible legal hold on unstructured information quickly and efficiently
- Reduce the risk and impact to IT of internal investigations and litigation by enabling legal users to search for and analyze information
- • Reduce costs by producing smaller, more-relevant data sets to third parties during discovery





