Proofpoint Predicts Move Toward Cloud-Based eDiscovery in 2011

According to the security and archiving experts at Proofpoint, Inc., the trend towards in-house management of eDiscovery processes will continue to grow rapidly in 2011. The leading provider of SaaS email security, email archiving and data loss prevention solutions says this trend will be driven by organizations looking to lower legal expenses while gaining more control over the eDiscovery workflow. Proofpoint also expects cost to be a driving factor in accelerating the adoption of archiving in the cloud over traditional on-premise technologies.

Based on its close work with customers and legal professionals in email archiving and eDiscovery, Proofpoint predicts that the top ten eDiscovery trends in 2011 will be:

1. eDiscovery 'In-Sourcing' Focus Shifts to Legal Risk Management: Companies have rushed to bring eDiscovery in-house largely to fulfill the objective of legal cost reduction. However, this investment has placed additional legal risk on the organization, including their ability to protect chains of custody and build legally defensible eDiscovery processes. Consequently, companies will increasingly view the eDiscovery 'in-sourcing' decision as one of a trade-off of reduced eDiscovery cost against the potential increase in legal risk exposure.

2. Adoption of eDiscovery in the Cloud Will Accelerate: Organizations will increasingly evaluate cloud approaches to eDiscovery in order to reduce cost and technological complexity associated with aging in-house systems. Driving this adoption will be an increasing number of organizations that are considering cloud alternatives to further hardware and infrastructure upgrades.

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Source: pr-usa.net