Are Large IT Providers Dropping the Ball on eDiscovery in the Cloud?

http://ow.ly/6Td3q

A blog post by Charles Skamser on his blog The eDiscovery Paradigm Shift.

The article touches on the fact that I.T. systems often don't concern themselves with possible litigation, and the eDiscovery process.

As the author states, "...with the convergence of information governance and eDiscovery along with the rapid advance of cloud computing, a multi-billion dollar market has emerged that can no longer be ignored. Information Governance and eDiscovery in the cloud should either be a standard component or an easy upgrade available from any serious Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and/or Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider."

The article goes on to state, "...without eDiscovery actually residing in the cloud with the pertinent ESI, the process of collection is going to be manual (i.e. a technician entering the data center and retrieving data) with processing and document review completed at another location independent of the pertinent ESI.

It only makes sense that information governance and eDiscovery solutions reside in the cloud with the pertinent data so that collections, processing and document review don't require ESI to be moved."