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- December 12th
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Why Not Move Your eDiscovery to the Cloud? – Part 2
Continued from Why Not Move Your eDiscovery to the Cloud? – Part 1…
The second concern regards how to move the actual data to and from the Cloud storage. Many providers will tell you that you can just upload your data directly via web or ftp. STOP HERE. Normal File Transfer Protocol or web page upload is NOT protected. So use an SFTP equivalent or better yet look at the previous paragraph and only send encrypted packages. Internet backbone speeds still limit the practical size of uploads to 5-10 GB unless you have a dedicated pipe to your provider. Data uploads that take longer than 1-2 hours may crash or bog down your own network. eDiscovery performance is all about getting that large collection on line for review as fast as possible. But just as the speed and performance wars died from lack of interest, I think that most legal users have come to understand that it may take a day or two to properly handle and process potential evidence. While service providers and certain global corporations may have a high proportion of large (>10 GB) collections or productions, a quick check with a couple clients revealed that only 10-15% of their collections might need to be loaded directly by the host. I wrote a piece last year about how Fedex may be the true winner in the migration to the cloud.
posted at 9:10am on Dec 12th
- December 5th
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Why Not Move Your eDiscovery to the Cloud? – Part 1
In my last post, we explored the relative cost of Amazon S3 Cloud storage compared to traditional hosting provider costs. Despite the potential cost savings of servers and storage in ‘The Cloud’, I am not yet seeing many firms or corporations jumping to move their eDiscovery to the Cloud. In a recent analyst briefing on our eDJ top 2012 eDiscovery Trends, Barry Murphy posited that legal and compliance resisted the leap beyond the firewall until they had more public success stories and caselaw. So what are they worried about? Data security was the first concern of a recent law firm client. “How can I assure my client’s that their sensitive ESI is safe and that we are not inadvertently waiving privilege?” Good question. So I went looking for a good answer.
posted at 9:46am on Dec 5th
- November 29th
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Will Amazon S3 Rain on eDiscovery Hosted Providers?
The cost of storage has come up in several recent engagements for firms and corporations. I started thinking about while we were brainstorming in preparation for our recent webinar on enabling expiry on archives. Calculating a Return on Investment (ROI) on a legal hold initiative includes the recovered cost of storage when you can eliminate 40-80% of your non-records. It was pointed out that storage costs have dropped so much that eDiscovery costs have superseded them as the primary motivation for cleaning house. My panelists trotted out several figures ($/GB) from well known analysts for the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of storage. I feel that Amazon S3, Rackspace and other global cloud services have clearly set the market price on storage at less than 15¢/GB. Yep, that’s right 15¢/GB. I can recall early eDiscovery hosting RFP’s at $30-50/GB/Month for online storage. That was just for storage, but it made an easy argument for in-house systems when many matters can run for 2-3 years or longer. Hosting providers generally lead with their processing and review offerings and tend to bury the ongoing storage costs deep in their bids, even though these recurring costs can represent the highest margin item on the engagement.
posted at 9:30am on Nov 29th
- November 17th
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Strategy: SaaS and E-Discovery – InformationWeek
Strategy: SaaS and E-DiscoveryInformationWeekBut they also must consider how their SaaS applications will be affected by e-discovery, the process by which enormous quantities of electronic information are searched and analyzed in the event of a lawsuit…
posted at 4:01am on Nov 17th
- November 2nd
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Kroll Ontrack Offers E-discovery SaaS Option For Companies, Law Firms
Kroll Ontrack, a provider of software to conduct e-discovery projects for law firms and in-house legal counsel, is introducing a SaaS version of its product called the Verve do-it-yourself e-discovery platform. Kroll already offers a hosted platform on…
posted at 9:09am on Nov 2nd
- October 20th
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eDJ Launches Survey on eDiscovery and The Cloud
Earlier this fall, eDJ conducted a survey on the usage of software-as-a-Service (SaaS) in eDiscovery. We reported that almost 70% of respondents are leaning toward using the cloud or a hybrid cloud/on-premise solution for eDiscovery. When we sliced this data a bit further, however, we found that only about 35% of corporate respondents are leaning toward cloud solutions for eDiscovery. Part of the explanation for this could be the fact that law firms have relied on hosted review for years now and are comfortable with cloud-based solutions. Corporations, on the other hand, tend to be very concerned with security and privacy issues and therefore want to exercise more control over data. eDJ has launched a new survey to dig deeper into the issues around the Cloud and eDiscovery.
posted at 11:20am on Oct 20th
- October 4th
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A Round of eDJ Review Deep Dives
It has been a busy couple of weeks. The new eDJ Tech Matrix has been gaining steam, which has required lots of deep product dive sessions and new features to categorize. I thought that I should call out some interesting highlights:
TotalDiscovery from BIA is now offering a subscription pricing for legal hold notification at $1/Custodian/Month. Yet another sign that eDiscovery is moving towards true cloud subscription licensing.
Mitratech’s TeamConnect is also available on a Saas subscription model. It has been a while since I got to dig into their offerings and I was impressed by the customizable dashboards and sharp J2EE-based platform. I was pleased to see that they had already added the new L600 series UTMBS eDiscovery code set that was ratified by the LEDES Oversight Committee on July 13, 2011. The ongoing project is drafting expanded eDiscovery activity and expense codes, so I hope to hear of more legal billing systems incorporating the new codes.posted at 8:35am on Oct 4th
- September 27th
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Cloud Helping Enterprise Defy Data Growth
Enterprise segments like the public sector, banking and telecom are likely to increase their cloud intake in the coming monthsIn today’s fast paced data intensive world, increasingly enough, global enterprise customers struggling with continued data …
posted at 6:55am on Sep 27th
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Managing risk in the cloud
Mike Small, a member of the London Chapter ISACA Security Advisory Group, BCS Fellow and a senior analyst at KuppingerCole, on managing risk in the cloudThe key benefit of adopting a cloud approach is one of scale – the cloud provider can potentially o…
posted at 6:48am on Sep 27th
- September 22nd
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Private Clouds and Data Security
Listen to Karl Schieneman, Founder and Owner of Review Less and friend of JurInnov talk with a team of experienced IT professionals and analysts about how cloud-based offerings impact law firms. During this show we will talk about security issues, ethical concerns and specifically about how e-discovery is impacted by cloud computing. The guests for [...]
posted at 9:17am on Sep 22nd