E-discovery News & Articles

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.

This week, McAfee upgrades Facebook protection to block all kinds of nasty bugs from getting in, GFI offers SharePoint log management for site governance, Coverity releases its upgraded code governance offering, while Zylab offers e-Discovery software that includes audio content identification.

A quick look back at our coverage of e-Discovery in recent times will show one glaring hole. That hole is audio e-Discovery, which hasn’t been covered because a solution has not been available. Until now, that is, with the release of Zylab’s Audio Search Bundle.

Lateral Data (news, site) has recently accomplished internal testing of its latest Viewpoint 5.0 e-Discovery platform and results indicate improved performance suitable enough for cloud-based data processing. With Viewpoint 5.0, users can scale up their processing power through distributed computing, which should lead to flexibility and cost savings.

This week there is upgraded SharePoint governance from Axceler, Xerox looks at the value of technology in law firms, Clearwell offers an e-Discovery game on Facebook to match Farmville, Bridgeway upgrades its enterprise management suite and Epiq buys Encore.

Social media can facilitate great conversations. Yet, for those in highly regulated industries, social media often hinders their ability to stay compliant and relevant. While not all social networks can be altered to provide secure and monitored access, some are making strides. Case in point: Actiance (formerly FaceTime Communications), which monitors and captures social media communications for archival, has joined forces with LinkedIn.

It’s been a busy week in GRC. OpenText has released new application governance and archiving software, StoredIQ offers risk assessments of SharePoint environments, EMC and eMag partner to offer e-Discovery, and there’s research from Varonis on metadata and GFI on email archiving.

This week in GRC, the issue of security features prominently with security issues around Android identified by Symantec, McAfee opens a new data center in the UK as part of its ongoing drive to provide content backup and security, Clearwell adds a legal hold module and ProofPoint releases a cloud-based email security and compliance package.

Clearwell (news, site) continued to build its e-Discovery platform this week with the release of a legal hold module that adds an automated hold processes to the platform, giving enterprises scalable, repeatable workflows that will track and manage all legal hold notices.

For those involved in the document review process, a few recent announcements from the e-Discovery industry may provide ways to speed up, enhance and otherwise streamline your approach.

In the GRC this week, Symantec and the Ponemon Institute have put a figure on how much data breaches are costing companies and offer an online tool for calculating your risk, OpenLogic is worried about software compliance in Android and iPhone/iPad releases, Kroll opens a document review center, while McAfee opens a data storage center with added security in the UK.

This week, we examine the many ways the enterprise is investing in mobile technologies and applications.

This week’s news is dominated by the announcement that the Intel deal to buy McAfee has finally closed, while Google has also bought into security with the acquisition of Zynamics. We look at the governance part of GRC, while Reuters and Bluestar have announced new releases.