RenewData unveils single-pass tape processing for e-discovery
RenewData has a new service that processes tapes with a single pass
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Deni Connor
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Network World
, 05/01/2008
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RenewData, one of the darlings of the e-discovery set, this week launched a new service for processing tapes with a single
pass.
The company, who partners with AXS-One, Mimosa Systems, Index Engines and Attenex, has patents pending for a technology they
call ‘single-pass’ processing. The technology allows files that have been divided across more than one backup tape to be read
as a whole without having to process each tape in its original sequence or read tapes more than once. It also allows processing
of orphan tapes that may have originally been part of a sequence of tapes that no longer exist.
As a result of regulations such as the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP), organizations have seen an increase in the
amount of data that is stored on tapes and a need to recover that data more quickly and efficiently. RenewData, for instance,
has seen a 300% increase in the number of backup tapes it processes since 2004.
RenewData developed the technology as it started to process even larger quantities of tapes for its clients. With single pass
processing, the need to catalog all tapes in a given set before they are able to be processed is removed. It lets RenewData
process partial data from incomplete tape sets, allowing users the capability to locate only some of the tapes before the
e-discovery process. With single-pass technology, RenewData can process any tape in any order and discover the content immediately.
Deni Connor is principal analyst for Storage Strategies NOW and host of both the Masters of Storage and Masters of Servers Solution Centers.
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