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  • 17a-4 llc Offers EMC’s Kazeon Solution for In-House

    e-Dis.co is a legal service provider (LSP) with the necessary operational experience and expertise vital to the process. By leveraging the EDRM ( Reference Model) to drastically reduce the size of legal productions …



  • DON eDiscovery Costs are Frustrating

    Here is a not-so-surprising revelation recently reported by Inside Counsel: most users are frustrated with the cost of eDiscovery. The article, “New Study Says Cost is Most Frustrating Factor in eDiscovery,” reveals the results of a survey by consulting company FTI Technology. The survey covered ways to streamline and reduce the cost of eDiscovery. The [...]



  • IBM Buys Vivisimo Allegedly for Its Big Data Prowess

    Big data. Wow. That’s an angle only a public relations person with a degree in 20th century American literature could craft. Vivisimo is many things, but a big data system? News to me for sure. IBM has been a strong consumer and integrator of open source search solutions. Watson, the game show winner, used Lucene [...]



  • Clearwell Clicks with Nikon for eDiscovery

    Nikon, a leading Japanese optical instruments maker, has presumably made its legal team very happy. Symantec announces, “Nikon Corporation Takes Control of eDiscovery Process with Symantec’s Clearwell eDiscovery Platform.” The press release explains: “The product provides the flexibility necessary for cross-border eDiscovery cases typically faced by Japanese customers, where litigation often demands multi-jurisdictional support and [...]



  • BrainSpace Strives to Replace Search Technologies

    Enterprise search technology certainly needs a boost, but PureDiscovery claims to have created something to replace the outdated technology altogether. The Dallas-based startup has introduced BrainSpace, a technology that doesn’t index data or require users to search for information on a platform. Instead, information will flow to users based on what they want to know as they [...]



  • Ediscovery lessons for corporate legal eagles – Technology Spectator

    Ediscovery lessons for corporate legal eaglesTechnology SpectatorAccordingly for legal professionals, these questions loom: How have SaaS-based platforms historically impacted the legal market and specifically e-discovery practices? How will cloud-base…



  • OpenText Offers Content Auto Classification Solution

    Open Text recently reported on a new transparent and defensible auto-classification designed for records managers in the article release “Open-Text Auto Classification.” According to the article, very few companies a sound information governance strategy with appropriate records management services in place and therefore fail to dispose of their unstructured content that is no longer in [...]



  • IBM and Its Analytics Roll Up

    IBM created WebFountain. In 2004, Searchblog posted a lengthy discussion of a system which would make sense out of the World Wide Web. “WebFountain, the Long Version” was a result of information provided by IBM’s engineers at its Almaden research facility. In 2004, WebFountain was one consequence of “ten years of work at Almaden on [...]



  • Big Data: The Next Bubble

    A colleague in Europe sent me information about a new study sponsored by SAS. To tow the line, I have done work for SAS in the past and we use SAS technology for certain types of analytic work. Nevertheless, the SAS report surprised me with its robust estimate of the uptake of big data, which [...]



  • Legacy Data and Data Remediation: What is the ROI? Part Two of an Inteview with Jonathan Wilan with Hunton & Williams

    PART TWO OF INTERVIEW WITH JONATHAN WILAN Partner at Hunton & Williams LLP With the exploding rate of data growth, data remediation is a serious exercise that all companies must consider. In part one of this series, I spoke with Jonathan Wilan, Partner at Hunton & Williams LLP, about the risks of not having a data remediation policy.  In this part two, we discuss what departments should be involved in data remediation efforts, what the return on investment is, and how to measure this. Amber Scorah:  What are the relevant departments that must be involved in data remediation efforts? Jonathan Wilan: To succeed, a remediation project will require involvement of a number of departments.  Obvious stakeholders will include IT and Records Management.  It is absolutely essential (for the legal preservation obligation reasons I discussed previously) that the Legal Department be [...]