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  • So let’s get to the heart of this Predictive Coding – Technology Assisted Review thing

    One recurring topic that keeps popping up was Predictive Coding, or Technology Assisted Review (we’ll use the defined term “PC-TAR” to avoid controversy from this point on). We know that using PC-TAR will help save money in the overall eDiscovery process. Albert Barsocchini recently did an article on “Ediscovery Production Without Review” last week and quoted an attorney at a major law firm that said they are producing documents without any reviewing any documents in a linear review process. This immediately raised the mental flag in my head as this was the first that I’ve heard of someone going straight to production using PC-TAR technology without first doing a human review of the responsive documents.



  • Autonomy and HP Deliver Archiving, eDiscovery and Search Appliances

    New HP Autonomy Appliances Provide Easy-to-Use, High-Performance, and Turn-key Solutions for Critical Applications
    Autonomy, an HP Company, today announced the availability of three new HP Autonomy Appliances designed to provide organizations with sim…



  • ILTA 2011 – A Wave of iPads, Managed Services and Predictive Coding

    Now that I have had a couple days to digest my whirlwind of Nashville ILTA 2011 press briefings, I wanted to get you my impressions on the memorable highlights. My first impression was, “OMG everyone has an iPad!” Really. Given the amazing prevalence of the tablets in the audiences of my sessions, I was not surprised that Recommind has just released an optimized mobile interface for their Axcelerate product. Howard Sklar (Recommind) says that they wanted to get ahead of the blurring the line between personal and professional lives. The service providers seem to be feeling the pressure from corporations to mitigate rollercoaster discovery costs with fixed fee and managed service offerings. Just as legal hold features were the hot add-on at LTNY in February, flexible work flows seemed to be the hot feature as providers are gearing up for the end of year release cycle.



  • Symantec Completes Acquisition of Clearwell Systems – Yahoo Finance

    Symantec completed its acquisition of Clearwell, a recognized leader in the electronic discovery market … combines leading #archiving & #eDiscovery solutions: http://bit.ly/kc8f7B “Symantec’s acquisition of Clearwell is a perfect marriage between …



  • Symantec Buys Clearwell #2 – Customer Impact?

    Expanding on Barry’s fast reaction, what will Symantec’s acquisition of Clearwell for $390 million mean to the existing Symantec/Clearwell eDiscovery customer base? Many companies with Enterprise Vault and Discovery Accelerator already utilize the Clearwell appliance for processing, ECA and review, whether on site or through a hosted provider. For them, it may mean breaking the volume based (per GB) licensing model that has dominated our market for far too long. The Symantec Information Management Group (in which I was a Product Manager) has dominated the email archiving market and recently added the Discovery Collector appliance to enable corporations to search, preserve and collect directly from unstructured ESI sources not being actively archived. Clearwell was the earliest partner to leverage the Discovery Accelerator API to import archive search results directly into a processing and review platform back when I was the Product Manager. So there is a long standing synergy between the product suites, although there is also functional overlap that will need to be clarified for prospective customers.



  • Legal Hold Notices Reach eDiscovery Platforms

    A common theme through products making the jump from processing engine to eDiscovery platform is the bolting on of a legal hold notice module or wizard. Hold notices are the official kick off of the eDiscovery tailgate party. When I created the first incarnation of the eDJ Tech Matrix back in 2009, only Atlas (now acquired by IBM) and Exterro offered a full featured workflow with a database back end. Some of the matter management players could send emails, but none had any market recognition for that limited functionality. I had many corporate clients consider these relatively high priced specialty applications, but only those with relatively heavy litigation/regulatory profiles or very low risk tolerance implemented them. Many of my corporate clients created home grown workflows with a single web, Sharepoint or SAP-type developer. Still, these two specialty players both gained steady market share and added rich features to support corporate legal management of preservation efforts. Just in time for Legal Tech NY 2011, I saw the basic hold notice workflow show up in AD eDiscovery, kCura Method, StoredIQ, Guidance EnCase eDiscovery and many more. A quick check of the eDJ Tech Matrix shows 25 products with legal hold notice functionality today and I will bet that this blog reminds several more to update their listings.



  • New Clearwell E-Discovery Platform Released

    On the company’s website, Clearwell Systems, Inc. announced the release of Clearwell Legal Hold, a new module in the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform that allows customers to seamlessly manage the critical legal hold process.



  • The Next Generation of Hard Disk Drive Duplicator Designed to Operate as Fast as 18GB/min – Newswiretoday.com

    NewswireToday – /newswire/ – Cypress, CA, United States, 12/02/2010 – Introducing the fastest-on-the-market hard drive duplicator and test/wipe equipment with 3.0 gigabit technology for industrial application . Ji2, Inc. announces the introduction of the …



  • eDiscovery Market Consolidation

    My September post looked at the provider sponsorship of Legal Tech New York from 2008-2011 as an indicator of the how our industry has reacted to the economic recession. At the time, I noticed quite a few players who had either quietly disappeared or been acquired in the last couple years. Merger and acquisition consolidation is a sign that eDiscovery is maturing and integrating into the larger corporate technology market. I thought that it would be interesting to make a quick roll call of software or service providers that have either disappeared or been acquired since the recession put the squeeze on the market.



  • Solera Networks Named Best Computer Forensics Software in GSN Homeland Security … – Earthtimes

    WASHINGTON, DC — 11/09/10 — Solera Networks, a leading network forensics products and services company, today announced that Government Security News has recognized the Solera Networks Virtual Appliance as the Best Computer Forensics Software of 2010 in …