Posts Tagged ‘Collection’

I recently ran across a few articles on  U.K. developer CPC Group Ltd and Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment Co, which is the real-estate investment arm of Qatar’s sovereign-wealth fund. The decision was that Qatari Diar wrongfully backed out of a deal to redevelop London’s landmark Chelsea Barracks site after the plan was opposed by Prince Charles, a judge ruled.  

From an article at litigationsupporttoday.com

The days when an attorney had to touch every document in a collection are gone. The volume of data in a typical case is simply too vast for such an outdated approach. Instead, forward-thinking organizations perform non-substantive reviews – those conducted for purely defensive purposes such as privilege, relevance, and responsiveness determinations—using automated technologies.

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

One of the most painful and risky aspects of the EDRM process is the collection and preservation of uncontrolled custodian ESI on laptops and desktops for ECA and legal hold.

The Cost of Collection:

Medium to large sized organizations are being driven to lower their overall litigation costs by bringing more of the eDiscovery processes in-house. To do this, organizations need to understand and proactively plan for the eDiscovery process. The most cost effective way to quickly lower eDiscovery costs are to prepare for the collection phase by putting in place an ESI archive to capture and manage those ESI silos that are most requested…Email, File System and SharePoint ESI.