E-discovery News & Articles

With Office 365 now on general release, Proofpoint offers security for its email services, LexisNexis upgrades its Concordance e-Discovery software, Blue Coat identifies search engines as one of the web’s biggest security threats, and DocuLex PDF functionality.

If things are slowing down on the run up to the holiday weekend, it was a busy week in GRC. Symantec research shows iOS and Android to be more secure than PCs, OpenText is offering archiving and records management of social content through Social WorkPlace, Cabinet NG digs deeper into the legal space and Clearwell looks at cloud computing and e-Discovery.

Social media is no longer just for the rest of us. As we’ve reported previously, industry after industry, no matter how regulated, wants to reap the benefits of social media without the burden of social media. Social collaboration is sexy. Records management isn’t. The same goes for e-Discovery. It’s only been in the past year or so that we’ve seen vendors within the e-Discovery space really tackle the issues that social media brings into the enterprise. Until then, they only predicted about its influence.

Nothing perks up a Friday like delving into the underbelly of the enterprise in an effort to reveal and analyze the growing impact of cloud computing and social media on electronic discovery. Thanks to a report released by Clearwell Systems, conducted in conjunction with analyst firm Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), we can do just that.

This week, IBM was at the enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, where it launched IBM Connections, a social networking platform with real-time compliance capabilities, Verizon opens a new risk management service, Clearwell extends reach of e-Discovery and Cintas achieves NAID certification.

Fresh on the heels of being placed in the "Leaders" section of the first Gartner e-Discovery Magic Quadrant, Guidance Software (news, site) has announced a new version of EnCase that, among other things, supports Microsoft Office 365, expected to be announced this month.

For companies that have been lured into a false sense of security by using enterprise search tools to comb through their growing repositories of online data, Clearwell says, not so fast. The e-Discovery vendor -- recently bought by Symantec -- has announced a few key enhancements to its identification and collection module designed to bring the next generation of targeted collection to e-Discovery.
 

In March, we told you about Recommind’s new predictive coding website, which provides online resources dedicated to explaining and demonstrating Recommind’s predictive coding capabilities for expedited document review. This week, Recommind received a patent for its predictive coding process, a move that gives Recommind, its customers and its partners exclusive rights to use, host and sell systems and processes for iterative, computer-expedited document review.

Looking for an e-Discovery tool that encompasses the entire process in a way that’s not just efficient but also give gives IT and Legal teams more control? This week, BIA introduced TotalDiscovery.com, a SaaS e-Discovery application that gives IT complete visibility over the discovery process.

The big event in the GRC space this week was the release of Gartner’s first Magic Quadrant for e-Discovery. Otherwise, RSA and SOA have integrated to provide cloud security, OpenLogic offers new collaboration capabilities for compliance, Iron Mountain shows that enterprises are still struggling to find files, while companies worried about GRC can learn it from ARC Logics.

You don’t need Gartner to tell you that the e-Discovery marketplace is volatile and overcrowded, with new vendors entering as others merge. But it did anyway. In its first Magic Quadrant for e-Discovery Software report, Gartner apprises us of the challenges, trends and prospects for the e-Discovery industry.

Need an e-Discovery solution that reflects perspectives of both the IT and legal departments? The search may be over. Today, Exterro released a new data management layer for its integrated solution suite. Fusion Zeta is an automated, easy-to-administer application designed to handle in-place early case assessment, preservation, collection and analysis. But perhaps most importantly, it gives legal teams 360-degree access into the entire e-discovery process, while eliminating the chaos of manual processes.

Leaving aside any irritation about the timing of the announcement -- why Friday? --   the news that Symantec (news, site) has agreed to buy Clearwell for US$ 390 million has to be the deal of the week on all kinds of levels.

Validating market predictions that SharePoint would be one of the big e-Discovery stories of 2011, Sherpa Software (news, site) has enhanced its Discovery Attender, with version 3.7 now adding SharePoint support, as well as other features.  

Autonomy (news, site) announced today that it is acquiring Iron Mountain’s archiving, e-discovery and online backup business for US$ 380 million in cash. This acquisition makes Autonomy big. How big? According to company statistics, Autonomy is now responsible for 25 petabytes of customer data and over 25,000 customers, who will now have Autonomy's advanced  technology for information governance in private clouds.

If ever there was an enterprise inter-department flashpoint, it must be the one at the juncture of IT and legal departments, where e-Discovery requests and technical capabilities meet. To defuse potential problems and make e-Discovery easier, Recommind (news, site) and LexisNexis have formed a partnership that will offer Recommind’s hosted e-Discovery review platform with LexisNexis Hosted Litigation Solutions.