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- January 24th
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Planet Data Receives SSAE 16 Certification
Certification Highlights Planet Data’s Dedication to the Security of Client Information
posted at 1:16pm on Jan 24th
- January 20th
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Unexpected Challenges of Enterprise Remote Collection
The astronomical growth in corporate data has driven the practice of eDiscovery away from just the forensic imaging of physical hard drives. The first systems for remote collection of email containers, Office files and other ESI from desktops, laptops and servers appeared in the 2004-2006 time period. I might have been one of the earliest beta testers for Guidance’s Encase Enterprise platform when I was managing the litigation technology for El Paso Corporation back then. Since then, the market has seen a wide variety of new appliances, just-in-time apps and other remote collection technologies. Most appear to promise a ‘push button’ automated collection by IT or Legal with minimal or no impact to working users. Legal sets the scope (date ranges, file types, names or search terms), and the system does all the work in the background. I just wish that it was that easy in the wild west of real world enterprise environments.
posted at 11:00am on Jan 20th
- January 9th
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Planet Data to Demonstrate New Exego3 Platform at LegalTech® New York 2012
Planet Data will present the newly launched proprietary early cost assessment eDiscovery platform, Exego3.
posted at 1:49pm on Jan 9th
- December 14th
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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.
posted at 3:13pm on Dec 14th
- December 13th
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Is Preservation “In Place” Technology the Panacea to the Preservation Headache?
I have spent countless hours over the last 5 years searching for the cure to many of my e-discovery ills: technology that will hold data in place for purposes of complying with preservation obligations in litigation. I am not referring to sending legal hold notices to custodians of data or self-collection. I am referring to actually locking down data…In a diverse technology environment…Without interrupting the business…And while we’re at it, can we apply retention policies? Based on my own experience and on multiple discussions with in-house practitioners, I strongly believe in-place preservation would take many of the headaches out of the preservation burdens faced by serial corporate litigants. Last week at the The Exchange event in Los Angeles Laura Kibbe, a thought leader in the industry, brought the topic up in one of the sessions. While acknowledging that we simply aren’t there [...]
posted at 4:21pm on Dec 13th
- 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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10 Handy Things to Know about the Lucene / Solr Source Code
It’s funny how certain facts are "obvious" to some folks, stuff they’ve known a long time, but come as a pleasant surprise to others. Chances are you know at least half of these, but no harm in double checking! Although…
posted at 10:28am on Nov 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 22nd
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E-Discovery: Does it need to be so expensive?
E-Discovery: Does it need to be so expensive?
posted at 12:04pm on Nov 22nd