In an age of tight IT budgets, how can an enterprise cost-justify bringing e-discovery in-house?
For an enterprise facing frequent litigation, in-house e-discovery is actually much more cost-effective. Rather than recurring projects costs paid to service providers per event, the organization will be able to access discovered data repeatedly for only the initial project cost. Very often tapes contain either redundant or useless data (such as system files). Our experience with tape discovery has shown that typically less than 5 percent of data on tape is relevant. This data can be retained in an archive and then the tapes can either be recycled or shredded. The reuse of tapes is specific to each enterprise’s policy. By reducing the numbers of tapes kept in offsite storage and also by eliminating the number of tapes that need to be purchased, the investment in a tape remediation project typically pays for itself in less than one year.
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