ediscovery

The explosion of data growth driven by business demands puts a tremendous strain on IT resources and Green IT strategy. Green IT initiatives now often include projects looking at how to access and manage data more efficiently across areas such as disaster recovery, compliance, backup, eDiscovery, and archive. Inefficient management of applications and data significantly compounds the data growth challenge and improving upon this, affords a real opportunity to make an immediate and tangible impact on Green IT strategy.

In litigation, the document review process is characterized as excessively time-consuming, costly and repetitive. This Commvault whitepaper addresses the challenges organizations faced in using ediscovery solutions, techniques and best practices to enable companies to take back control over the ediscovery workflow process while reducing overall costs and risks.

We know Compliance and eDiscovery business requirements are driven by the need to manage different types of information risk – the risk of not being able to find evidence during litigation and the risk of not retaining records in compliance with specific legislation, or in other words an inability to access or organize relevant information. After all, why retain data if you can't search or organize it?

Many organizatins choose to address eDiscovery challenges only after being hit with a lawsuit. This reactive approach is both expensive and time consuming. It also precludes the process of comprehensive planning and exposes the organization to greater risks. This white paper takes a look at one eDiscovery approach using Commvault Simpana software. Commvault's eDiscovery solution parallels the workflow set forth by lawyers and technologists that make up the Electronic Discovery Reference Model.