E-discovery News & Articles

As in previous years, this week's SAP Sapphire conference has generated a number of interesting releases this week in the GRC space. Jive offered enterprises a way of keeping their social media compliant, while Krolls provided them the tools to DIY e-Discovery and C2C has simplified email archiving.

The last time we talked about ZL Technologies’ Unified Archive was when it released version 7.0. So it’s only appropriate that today we talk about its latest release -- version 7.0.4 of Unified Archive.

There’s quite a lot of interest in SharePoint this week with SharePoint-based compliance from NextDocs, compliance for those who are using SharePoint as an enterprise CMS from HiSoftware and a discussion on SharePoint governance from Symon Garfield. EMC has also upgraded SourceOne e-Discovery Kazeon to v4.6, while Check Point has bought Dynasec.

Recent trends in e-Discovery point toward a very promising development -- companies are recognizing the pitfalls of existing models for handling e-Discovery, and they are working smarter. As the cost of e-Discovery continues to sky-rocket, a definite movement is growing among large enterprises who want to make e-Discovery more efficient, defensible and cost effective.

Think for a minute about how your company manages its email. How confident are you that it’s as secure as it needs to be? You’re not alone. According to Oasys Limited’s September 2011 Business Behavior & Email Management Project in which they surveyed 1,237 employees across a variety of disciplines, 96% of employees believe their companies face some level of legal risk associated with poor email management. Twenty percent said that their company faces “High Risk.”

This week it’s all about security. Symantec has come back from its Vision annual conference where it announced that it intends to spend US$ 1.25 billion on acquisitions and gives the world a chance to see its O3 cloud security offering. Android gets more security, while MS says zero-day attacks are relatively rare. WebLayers beefs up its governance.

On the heels of a Symantec report on e-Discovery and information retention, market trends in the e-Discovery industry are improving after dropping sharply (along with everything else) in 2009, according to a report from IBISWorld.

This week in the GRC space, HP continues its cloud charge, SOA offers governance for .NET web services, Perimeter offers email compliance across Office 365, Norman Marks from SAP talked to us about GRC for life and Avior upgrades its GRC suite.

This week, RecMan extended its records management for Google Apps by adding to Gmail, IdentityLogix adds security module to VMWare, M-Files and NetSuite integrate, CaseCentral puts R5 on general release and Recommind’s Axcelerate e-Discovery is named trend-setting technology for 2011.

GRC just keeps ticking away. By far the biggest thing this week was the release of this year’s Gartner’s GRC Magic Quadrant, while Symantec finally kept good on its earlier promise and released Enterprise Vault 10. Android security was also under the microscope by Lockout, while Lockpath and Network Frontiers released a badly needed dictionary of compliance. We also looked at process and policy in e-Discovery.

With the maturing of the e-Discovery marketplace, it can be easy -- too easy -- to think that it's all just a matter of using the right tool. But as with most business processes, and particularly with e-Discovery, it's a matter of policy and process as well.

Quiet week in the GRC space this week, but there’s still a few nuggets worth noting. Social media and the risks it poses were identified by Symantec, Passware shows that its new product finds your OS passwords, SDL’s translation software gets further security certification and Nextware legal services offers iPad support.

It has also been busy this week in the GRC space. For Lotus Notes, Daegis has announced functionality on its e-Discovery platform that enables enterprises to preserve collaborative application data throughout the e-Discovery process, Iron Mountain and GimmalSoft get together for SharePoint 2010 records management, there’s new archiving abilities for Office 365, OpenPeak secures Android, and BIA offers e-Discovery on iPads and iPhones.

While we have talked a lot over the past six months about Office 365, its potential and problems, one of the things that no one seems to able to answer is where and who is going to use it. Microsoft itself is hoping for interest from the SMB market, while vendors have been working to develop integrations for it. The release of Bloomberg’s (news, site) Office 365 Cloud Archiving this week is one such product.

It’s July and bound to be quiet. Even so, in the GRC space, AvePoint and KnowledgeLake have paired up for SharePoint 2010 content governance, Symantec has finally closed the deal with Clearwell, Aveska’s enterprise governance solution is in big demand, while Vista SP1 support has stopped so no more security upgrades there.