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Overview | Benefits In a market increasingly dominated by issues surrounding compliance, corporate governance and legal discovery, the ability to search rapidly through mountains of e-mail and other electronic documents in order to comply with a discovery order has risen to the top of the executive priority list. Courts in more than a half-dozen cases in the first half of 2005 alone have imposed a heavy price on companies that mis-handled electronic discovery. (E-discovery Case Database) As any organization that has responded to an audit or discovery order can attest, this is not an easy task. The growth of content—particularly e-mail as the primary method of most business communications and transactions—has exceeded all expectations. For example, IDC estimates that the average number of business e-mails sent each day worldwide will hit 36.2 billion next year, while Gartner Group predicts growth of up to 30 percent per year through 2009. Microsoft Corporation, alone, receives over 30 million external e-mails daily. Meanwhile, Enterprise Strategy Group reports that as much as 75 percent of most companies' intellectual property is contained in the messages and attachments they send through their e-mail systems. The ever-increasing volume of electronic records together with decreasing turnaround time requirements on e-mail and IM discovery requests create an environment where the ability to perform rapid searches for specific content stored on backups or in archives takes on mission-critical importance. While there are many products available to archive e-mail, some organizations are quickly discovering that archiving e-mail is only half the battle. Instead of finding information subject to a discovery request quickly with accurate search results, their e-mail archive is bogged-down by high data volume, takes days to produce results, and when the results are finally generated, they must wade through lots of irrelevant information. |
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