Can you be sure of collecting all data in a discovery request?
One particular problem faced in the eDiscovery market is the ability to collect data. When it comes to email the thoughts tend to be to extract the data from an email archive. It is then the problems begin, when the people managing the discovery request realize that pertinent email data is missing from the archive. If compliance archiving has been switched on for many years, then the chances are there is a good chance of finding the data, of course this makes the assumption that all internal mail is in the archive!
But what if the request pre-dates the time when compliance archiving was switched-on, or if it has never been implemented and only capacity based email archiving is enabled. Then with the majority of archiving solutions there will be holes in the data. Excluded will be current data that has yet to be archived, folders that have been inadvertently overlooked, pst files that have not been ingested, either because they are too large or because they haven’t been found on remote servers or desktops or laptops. What is needed is a solution that will manage, search and collect from live mailboxes and psts regardless of their location. Take a look at ArchiveOne.
