Posts Tagged ‘backup’

The eDiscoveryJournal, recently ran an article about desktop collection for eDiscovery and mentioned the case of Roffe v Eagle Rock, a case involving custodial self-discovery and expectations from the Judge. The transcript from the conversation between the Judge and both parties of the case can be seen here.

In this blog post I’m highlighting another of Iron Mountain Digital’s offering, LiveVault.

Businesses of all sizes depend on their computer data for their very existence.  Whether it’s a large enterprise with transactional data or a 15-person law office with valuable client records, business data represents a valuable and irreplaceable business asset. The business risk of losing this data — or even losing access to this data — is well documented and well recognized. A survey of over 200 small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) by Imation indicates that 90 percent have some formal backup and restore strategy. The question is: which strategy is best for your company?

After this mornings presentation that I gave on building a business case for SharePoint archiving and eDiscovery at the SharePoint summit in Montreal, I had quite a few people come to our booth discussing on how Mimosa NearPoint might help their problems, one of the attendees had some thoughts not really related to NearPoint.  In fact, now that we have been acquired by Iron Mountain, many bring up that they are already a customer (in fact .. around 150,000 companies are customer of Iron Mountain).

The acquisition of Mimosa Systems by Iron Mountain last February was a big piece of the puzzle in Iron Mountains’ digital strategy –  dubbed Digital 2.0.   This acquisition also brought changes for me personally.  In my new role at Iron Mountain I am going to focus on evangelizing the Digital 2.0 vision and product set, a task that I’m both exited about and also don’t underestimate.  For quite a few people, Iron Mountain is the company that moves those boxes in trucks they see driving around. You see them in New York, London and Amsterdam, etc.  For many though, it has largely gone unnoticed that Iron Mountain has been building up a major set of digital offerings for customers, from online backup of PCs and Servers to digital archiving and even technology escrow management.

I have always been told relying on backups for eDiscovery purposes is a costly and time consuming mistake.

Searching through backup tapes or even a disk-based backup for eDiscovery is difficult. Imagine restoring 22 200 GB backup tapes of your employee workstations and

Last week I spoke at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference on records management and eDiscovery. I will make my deck that I used available later this week, however while I was at Las Vegas one of the whitepapers that I worked on was made available on the Mimosa Website. You can actually download the whitepaper on this link.

Shortly after the new amendments to the FRCP were published, I was told by many GCs that finally backup tapes had been protected from the dreaded discovery request. When asked why they held this opinion they responded;”Rule 26(b)(2)(B) takes backup tapes off the table because they are cost and not easily restored and searched”.

I would suggest a closer reading of the committee notes. These notes are as important as the actual amendment.