E-discovery requests have growing impact on data storage
"E-discovery's impact on storage is primarily felt in the data backup environment, according to Brian Babineau, a senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group in Milford, Mass. Corporate counsel often issues a blanket order for IT to save everything -- email, files or databases -- for a specific time period, and most companies have traditionally used tape to preserve the data.
The problems begin when organizations save too much data for longer than they need to keep it, and that data is inaccessible or very expensive to find on tape. At that point, moving to disk-based backup is critical, Babineau said.
"Electronic discovery has provided another catalyst to go to disk-based backup," Babineau observed.
E-discovery has also forced storage teams to build systems of record and, more specifically, archived systems. Implementing an archive is important to ensure that important ESI will be accessible online, easier to search and easier to delete."
The problems begin when organizations save too much data for longer than they need to keep it, and that data is inaccessible or very expensive to find on tape. At that point, moving to disk-based backup is critical, Babineau said.
"Electronic discovery has provided another catalyst to go to disk-based backup," Babineau observed.
E-discovery has also forced storage teams to build systems of record and, more specifically, archived systems. Implementing an archive is important to ensure that important ESI will be accessible online, easier to search and easier to delete."
