IT is increasingly involved in eDiscovery, and enlightened self-interest is doing a lot of the heavy lifting. This wasn’t always the case. As long as IT could maintain a minimum effort or even ignore eDiscovery entirely, they were frankly happier. And why not? IT resources are already strained by just trying to keep up with the core computing environment. Server virtualization, storage management, network unification, data retention, application management, data security: these are IT’s major tasks and reason for being. eDiscovery was just an annoying support call from the Legal department and IT didn’t want to hear it.
But eDiscovery development and dollars are moving fast into areas under IT’s direct control. Review and Production will always be the core legal concern in eDiscovery. But Collection and early document review are getting harder and harder to do in the face of extreme data growth and complex storage structures. This is IT’s realm and Legal needs their help.
Let’s take a quick look at four driving factors that are making eDiscovery more attractive to IT. Or if “more attractive” is too much, “less of a huge pain” may do just fine.
- Factor #1: Fast-growing data. Fast data growth is a fact of life in private and public sectors. It’s not just a question of storing and protecting the data, although that is a tough undertaking for any IT organization. IT must also contend with large data volumes scattered throughout hundreds and thousands of application servers, and stored on countless storage devices. Collecting and searching through digital data in this challenging environment is no joke. Attorneys cannot do it by themselves and IT needs proactive processes to control data searches and restores for eDiscovery collections.
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Source: Enterprise Storage Forum
By: Christine Taylor
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