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When Pressing Delete Is OK: Learn How to Eliminate ROT in Your Organization

AIIM

This causes enough problems by itself, but when you then add to the pile all the redundant, obsolete, and trivial (ROT) information you have in your systems, on your file shares, and in every other possible location, it’s a real nightmare. Don’t Let Your Information ROT. Identifying and Evaluating ROT.

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4 Ways to Determine ROI around Data Cleanup

Everteam

You need to show them not only why you need to perform a data cleanup, but prove the ROI behind it. To help you out, here are four ways you can pull together the numbers to determine the ROI from cleaning out redundant, duplicate and trivial information (ROT). If it’s ROT, wouldn’t it make more sense to get rid of it completely?

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5 Reasons Your Files and Records are ROT(ting)

Gimmal

Redundant, obsolete, and trivial (ROT) information likely dominates your content stores. We collect data from organizations every day to understand why information governance problems exist, and there are generally five reason your files are ROT(ting). Five Reasons Your Files are ROT(ting) 1.

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How to Perform a Content Migration - Your Checklist for Success

AIIM

For a file share cleanup , it may make more sense to go in phases or target particular departments or processes. Or is much of it redundant, outdated or obsolete, or trivial (ROT)? But the reason will impact the overall migration process. What’s the Scope of the Migration? Does it store information that can no longer be recreated?

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Looking Back At Information Governance in 2018

Everteam

Podcast Summary: The Intersection of Information Security and Governance. If it’s true that almost 80% of the information an organization has is ROT – redundant, obsolete and trivial, then there’s a ton of work to be done to find that information, clean it out and organize what’s left. 4 Ways to Determine ROI around Data Cleanup.

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Why Your Data Cleanup Efforts Are Probably Failing

Gimmal

Why Your Data Cleanup Efforts Are Probably Failing Written by Data cleanup feels like the house chore everyone knows they should doyet it rarely makes it to the top of the to-do list until something goes catastrophically wrong. You may have heard it explained in terms of storage costs, security, or operational efficiency.

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