When being sued, one of the excuses that many companies have come fall back on is known as the "IT burden" defense. The basic premise is that locating the information sought by the court puts too much of an e-discovery burden on the company's IT resources.
This defense invariably results in some uncomfortable moments for IT executives because it usually requires them to testify in court about how inept they in managing data.
The days when that was a plausible excuse are coming to an end anyway. Index Engines has created a Unified Discovery Platform that indexes all the information across an enterprise at a rate of roughly 1TB per hour per node on the network.
According to Jim McGann, vice president of information discovery for Index Engines, the company has essentially created an operating environment for indexing that makes it possible to immediately find any piece of data hiding in the enterprise, including that on backup tapes.
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Source: IT Business Edge (blog)
By: Michael Vizard
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