Telling a Story

 My grandfather was born in 1903, the 9^th of 11 children. And did he tell stories. Though he never admitted it, I got the hunch that the vast majority of his stories were not original to him. In my mind, they were just too wild and fantastic to have actually happened to a kid that long ago in extreme southeastern Mississippi. But the way he told them, with tempo, inflection, and sometimes even...

How do you calculate the Return On Investment (ROI) as it pertains to information governance? On the one hand, this may not even be the right question. As our CTO Bassam Zarkout recently asked members of the Detroit ARMA Chapter, “Would you ask what the ROI is for your fire safety systems? How is risk mitigation associated with your records management program any different?”

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RSD is pleased to announce Industry Chats!  This is an ongoing series of unscripted interviews with the team at RSD.  You’ll hear a variety of topics, including discussions regarding RSD and our solution GLASS, federated records management, information governance, and more.

In this first video in the series, RSD’s CTO Bassam Zarkout discusses information governance....

Hello from Denver! We are wrapping up our presence at this year's annual meeting of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC). Early season snowflakes are flying, and conference attendees may end up spending a day or so more in Denver than originally planned. No time better than now to post some thoughts on the last three days.

We’ve not sponsored a booth, reception, or water cooler at ACC before. And while I’ve had...

Once in awhile, as we did this past Wednesday, we’ll talk to a forward-thinking customer who realizes that the question is inevitable, whether they are creating cloud-based content or not: how to govern it?

First the Good News

On its face, the question is simple enough. With RSD GLASS, customers can govern records of any format, regardless of where they reside and how they are stored. And we allow in-place governance, which means that our customers don’t have to migrate...

I just returned from the Gartner Risk and Security Summit held @ the National Harbor in Maryland. While I have been to several Gartner summits before, this was my first time attending the Risk and Security summit and truthfully didn’t know what to expect. I wanted to learn what the burning issues were for risk, security, and compliance officers so I focused on the...

The MER Conference was held in my backyard this past week. Hordes (well, hundreds) of industry experts descended upon Michigan Avenue and generally behaved themselves, much as you’d expect of a group of people with graduate degrees in Library Sciences.

We did not host a booth this year. Rather, we sponsored the MER Podcast Series. A number of...