Archive for February, 2009

The magic of Mimosa’s email archiving solutions is its ability to reduce Exchange storage size and provide full Exchange data protection.  No other archival solution can provide both functions in a single integrated solution.

Let’s break it down. 

First consider, Exchange data protection.  Best practice calls for a daily full backup to tape.  Better yet, is back to disk at hourly intervals.  No matter what backup technology you choose, none of these can reduce the Exchange footprint.  They simply make copies of Exchange. 

A large amount of the cost of discovering electronically stored information (ESI) is the cost of actually finding it, no matter where it is.

ESI can hide anywhere in a corporate infrastructure including custodian workstations, network share drives, USB thumb drives, CD/DVDs–even iPods. How do you speed the collection of responsive records as well as more fully control and insure the placement of litigation holds?

We’ve all heard the stories about organizations that have saved a ton of money with better eDiscovery processes and technologies in-house.  We’ve also heard stories about organizations losing a ton of money due to not having tools like email archiving in place to make eDiscovery predictable and effecient.

Raise your hand if you believe having access to a complete set of data is a liability…Now raise your hand if you believe not capturing specific data, even if you can,  if it does not have any noticeable business value is a legal risk and a violation of the FRCP…

Another year, another LegalTech show. While some things never change – lots of chotzches, disconnects between legal and IT folks, conflict between law firms and an in-house approach – this year’s show had a very different feel from years past. There were no huge announcements this year; the news was more focused on how to cut costs with technology. The traffic at the booths was generally slower, but there was a good amount of people and anecdotal evidence points to potential buyers being more qualified. Maybe 2009 will go down as the LegalTech where serious buyers showed up.

During several recent eDiscovery seminars I have presented at, I have been asked the question;”Is the federal government also subject to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure?”  My answer has always been “Yes”, any entity party to a federal lawsuit is subject to the FRCP. Now I can point to a case that illustrates my opinion.