E-discovery News & Articles

Some interesting announcements in the GRC space this week, among them the release of e-Discovery services onto AWS by X1 Discovery, Symantec releases its annual disaster preparedness report, Agilance upgrades its Federal offering with FedRAMP Content Pack and Logic Buys Quantum.

Quite a bit of movement this week in GRC, including the release of the upgrade to SAS’s GRC solution, the acquisition of BWise by NASDAQ OMX, Microsoft patches up another bunch of vulnerabilities, Clearwater expands its reseller program and Daegis offers free tools for calculating e-Discovery costs.

This week, Facebook took further steps to secure its users by teaming up with McAfee, Symantec, Trend Micro and Sophos to offer better protection, which is probably good in light of the new Symantec Internet Security Report. Also this week, TEAM and EntropySoft get together for compliance with Oracle email management, while CDS and Tactical get together to offer e-Discovery services.

In the GRC space this week, the big news has to be that Google is offering cheap e-Discovery with its Google Apps. However, there are more nuggets in Lockpath’s survey of risk, while a number of GRC acquisitions this week are worth noting.

Seems like GRC companies are still only recovering from LegalTech NY this week, as it’s been relatively quiet. That said, SAI has finalized the Compliance 360 deal, Ricoh is expanding its e-Discovery reach again, Congress is taking on spyware and Guidance has bought CaseCentral.

This week in GRC was always going to be about LegalTech and everything that came out of it. Well, it's finishing up today, and it didn’t disappoint. There were releases from Autonomy, Recommind, Digital Reef and a whole lot more.

If anyone was wondering what Autonomy was going to do after getting the check for US$ 12 billion, then the upgrade to its e-Discovery software is a good indicator: It appears to be carrying on business as usual, even if it is now branded as a HP company.

In the document management space this week, Alfresco announced that later in the week it will be releasing Enterprise 4, Microsoft announced the public beta of Office 15 for the summer, Colligo got legal at LegalTech, Rioch bought HSSK and M-Files can now be used on mobile devices.

LegalTech New York 2012 is only days away, but announcements are rolling out beforehand in anticipation. This week, Nuix, a worldwide provider of information management technologies, including e-Discovery and electronic investigation, announced that it will be launching and showcasing its latest e-Discovery and Big Data solutions during the conference.

For the last few months, we’ve been talking about big data. From social media to customer experience to cloud storage, the enterprise is struggling to manage and leverage copious amounts of data. The real issue for big data isn’t just where to put it all, but rather how to gain access to it when you need it.

There’s no doubt that predictive coding is the next big thing in e-Discovery. While predictive coding aims to code, organize, and prioritize entire sets of electronically stored information (ESI) according to their relation to discovery responsiveness, privilege and designated issues before and during the legal discovery process, many e-Discovery vendors have been working hard to offer products and service that offer predictive analytical solutions.

This week in the GRC space, IBM released its identity intelligence software, Symantec had a busy week with the acquisition of LiveOffice and its rethink of intelligent information governance, CMSWire’s contributors visited the governance space, particularly around website governance and Qualtrax upgraded to v4.3.

Symantec Corp. announced the acquisition of LiveOffice for a cool US$ 115 million. LiveOffice, Symantec’s hosted archiving OEM partner for Enterprise Vault.cloud, will add a cloud-based messaging protection solution to Symantec's information security and management solutions arsenal.

It’s been a slow start to the year in GRC, but it looks like one where e-Discovery is going to play a major role, at least according to Nuix. Axceler and MetricStream have both entered partnerships with Jornata and Qualys, while EntropySoft has released a new connector with ZyLab for better e-Discovery.

When it comes to the massive amounts of information that companies have to sift through in to effectively search and review for litigation, it’s hard not to be sympathetic to their claims that e-Discovery has become a costly and time-consuming process. In December, we reported that the burden of e-Discovery was put on trial, so to speak, at a Congressional hearing aimed to better understand the issues and how they might be able to improve the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.