eDiscovery and Cloud Computing are a bit like oil and water, at least just yet in these early days of the cloud.
The cost efficiencies and time savings that Cloud-based services provide make it seem like the choice to move to the cloud is a no-brainer. Survey after survey show what makes it seem like everyone is jumping aboard the Cloud. But does it make sense for you and your business?
Much of the answer to that question depends on the kind of data that you are hosting and the value of that data to your organization. A recent article on CIO Update highlights a number of problems/headaches with remotely hosting data that can show up the day that an eDiscovery request hits your desk.
1. A response to an eDiscovery request typically must outline the locations of stored data. Cloud systems, in their incredible efficiency may have cached your dataon multiple servers located in multiple global locations. Your retention schedule may have said that something is deleted, but your cloud provider may have kept a backup copy of it somewhere. This issue of not knowing where your data and data copies/backups physically reside is at the root of a number of problems.
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Source: Formtek Blog
By: Dick Weisinger
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