Electronic discovery solution provider Clearwell Systems , Inc., US, has announced enhancements to the Clearwell Identification and Collection Module that will bring next generation targeted collection to e-discovery. With this release, Clearwell seeks to deliver federated search-enabled keyword collection to address e-discovery challenges posed by the continuous, exponential growth of data and the rising use of wikis, blogs and other cloud and social media forums.
Specifically, Clearwell's keyword collections are seen to provide customers with the flexibility to leverage their existing IT infrastructure, such as built-in indices for Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint and Windows file shares, whether deployed on-premise or in the cloud. As a result, customers can more quickly and cost-effectively identify and collect potentially relevant electronically stored information (ESI) for litigation, compliance and regulatory inquiries.
The amount of ESI that enterprises are currently grappling with is seen to be sizeable and growing quickly. According to IDC, this digital universe will grow from 800,000 petabytes in 2009 to an expected 35 zettabytes by 2020 - 44 times the volume of digital information in 2009. Furthermore, by 2020, more than one third of that digital information is expected to live in or pass through the cloud. These trends in the growth of both data volumes and cloud computing result in rising e-discovery costs, as there is an increasingly large volume of ESI that must be collected and then processed, analysed, reviewed and produced in the event of litigation, regulatory inquiries or internal investigations.
To prevent these costs from spiraling out of control, Clearwell's targeted collection capabilities seek to provide customers with the flexibility to filter collections by keyword in addition to metadata such as custodian, date range or file type. Additionally, customers have the option of leveraging federated search-enabled keyword collection, enabling them to save time and costs in all phases of e-discovery.
New features in the Clearwell Identification and Collection Module include keyword filters; extended sharePoint collections; and Microsoft RMS environment support. The company's new targeted collection capabilities will be available in the third quarter of 2011.
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