Digital information, commonly referred to as Electronically Stored Information or ESI, has experienced exponential growth in recent years and has become a critical source of evidence in legal actions across the world. And this growth is set only to accelerate, with a recent study by IDC revealing that by the end of 2010 the amount of ESI will have grown to 1.2 million petabytes.
ESI has gained popularity because it takes up less space than physical documentation and offers advanced capability designed to speed up the search process. But with the massive growth expected in the amounts of this information, is this search capability enough for the legal sector or has finding evidence become akin to finding a mythical needle in a haystack?
Electronic search capability has been thought of as a boon to the legal industry, where in the past investigators would have had to search through thousands of paper-based documents to assemble evidence. In theory ESI allows investigators to search through these thousands of records electronically using intelligent search terms, which would speed up the search process to just a matter of minutes. In practice however, this virtual mountain of information is made difficult by sheer data volumes and compounded by poor data management.
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