{"id":2261,"date":"2011-07-08T07:00:58","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T15:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=2261"},"modified":"2011-07-08T07:00:58","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T15:00:58","slug":"e-discovery-expanding-into-cloud-based-and-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/e-discovery-expanding-into-cloud-based-and-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"E-Discovery: Expanding into Cloud-Based and Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

E-discovery is the process of searching for and securing electronic data and documents \u00a0with the intent of using the information as evidence relative to a lawsuit. \u00a0Outside the United States, e-discovery is often referred to as e-disclosure<\/em>. \u00a0Traditionally, many of the steps of e-discovery were performed manually and with the assistance of outside legal experts, but as the amount of electronic data organizations manage grows and as the frequency of e-discovery requests increase, organizations are finding it more cost effective to adopt e-discovery technology solutions.<\/p>\n

A recent report by the Enterprise Strategy Group <\/a>(ESG) and sponsored by e-discovery vendor Clearwell Systems<\/a> finds that increasingly organizations are bringing e-discovery in-house. \u00a0The report also shows that e-discovery process is now expanding to include information stored with cloud-based computing and social media.<\/p>\n

30 percent of Fortune 2000 businesses now say that cloud computing data is now considered as ‘in-scope’ during an e-discovery investigation. \u00a0 \u00a0The report expects that by the end of this year that number will jump to 60 percent of organizations. \u00a0Having to search both internal and external data repositories clearly complicates the e-discovery process. \u00a0 Only a quarter of companies say that they are now prepared to include cloud-based data searches as part of an e-discovery request. \u00a037 percent of companies say that their organization has no policy yet around cloud-based e-discoveries.<\/p>\n

Other results <\/a>reported include:<\/p>\n