Many of us are drowning in legacy data. You know what I’m talking about – those ancient email systems, forgotten file shares, and decommissioned applications that nobody wants to deal with but everyone’s afraid to delete. (Fans of the podcast have heard me tell the story of my first legacy migration off of an AT&T 3B-4000)
This Thursday’s ACEDS webinar is tackling this exact problem head-on, and I think you’ll get a lot of value from it. They’re presenting a real-world case study where they managed to consolidate a staggering 90,000 mailboxes down to just 3,000. That’s not a typo – it was a 97% reduction!
What makes this session particularly valuable is how it bridges three critical areas:
- Legacy data remediation (the stuff keeping your legal and IT teams up at night)
- Defensible disposition (so you can actually delete things without lawyers hyperventilating)
- AI-driven insights (turning that dusty data into strategic value)
Doug Austin, Adam Rouse from Walgreens, and experts from S2|DATA and FTI Consulting will be sharing practical, battle-tested approaches. Not theoretical stuff – actionable strategies you can implement.
I’ve seen so many organizations paralyzed by their legacy data challenges. You can’t move to new systems because of it, you’re paying a fortune to store it, and it’s an undeniable compliance risk. This webinar talks about a way forward.
Register now for Thursday (May 15th) at 1pm ET. Your future self – and your storage budget – will thank you.
Written by W. Curtis Preston (@wcpreston), four-time O'Reilly author, and host of The Backup Wrap-up podcast. I am now the Technology Evangelist at S2|DATA, which helps companies manage their legacy data
