* Vendors clamor for the e-discovery market
With the advent of new rules in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure for the discovery of electronically stored information, nearly every business is faced with putting in software or systems that allow them to search for, recover and analyze information regarding Federal litigation.
A number of companies have surfaced recently to take up the clamor for complying with the FRCP. Among them are Index Engines, Clearwell Systems, Kazeon and SailPoint Technologies.
Is this attention to e-discovery more a matter of hype than a codification of best practices in the legal community? Will we see a rise in the storage community of persons versed in legal issues – employees called litigation support specialists? So, thinks Dennis Kennedy, a lawyer specializing in the application of technology to the law. In his blog, Kennedy talks about these professionals, one of whom, SailPoint CEO and President Mark McClain, says exists in most firms.
The litigation support specialist is a person with some legal knowledge and a vast knowledge of IT and the systems affected by the legal discovery process. That person will know the type of people to pull out of the crowd – records managers, legal counsel, database administrators – to begin the deployment of an e-discovery or any compliance process.
Back to the area of e-discovery itself, last week ClearWell Systems announced a new appliance for e-discovery.
Index Engines and Kazeon both introduced e-discovery appliances and software.
Also, Network World staff writer Jon Brodkin looked into the process of sifting through data and why the endeavor may not be successful.
Sailpoint is taking an interesting approach to e-discovery and auditability. The company is focusing on access control and identity management. Its software, Compliance IQ, looks at the various directories in use in companies and draws from them security profiles that can warn IT of security breaches or bad practices.
Storage news this week:
* RedCannon Security rolled out KeyPoint Armor on SanDisk USB Devices, which allows encryption, centralized management and reporting of data stored on SanDisk USB flash drives. The RedCannon KeyPoint Armor technology is available immediately on SanDisk Cruzer Titanium flash drives.
* Tek-Tools announced that its storage resource management software Profiler Suite now supports arrays from EMC, IBM, HP, Hitachi Data Systems, LSI and Network Appliance. The software also expands on the planning capabilities that let users gain visibility into the entire storage enterprise.
* Revinetix launched an upgrade to its RevOS backup software that include support for Microsoft Exchange message-level backup, network-attached storage, enhanced bare metal restore capability and support for Intel-based Macs, in addition to Windows, NetWare, Linux, AIX, Solaris, FreeBSC and SCO Unix. Revinetix’s disk-to-disk backup appliances range in price from $3,000 to $60,000 for 400GB to 8TB devices.
* The SCSI Trade Association – the organization that promotes SCSI technology – named new board members. Among those on the board of directors are officers Harry Mason of LSI Logic, Martin Czekalski of Seagate, Don Jeanette of Fujitsu and Rachel Trent of PMC-Sierra. New to the Board are Heidi A. Smith of HP and Martin Or of Emulex.
* CYA Technologies launched CYA SmartRecovery for IBM FileNet P8, recovery and replication software for enterprise content management environments. The software provides online recovery of structured information without disrupting business operations. CYA SmartRecovery captures incremental changes in the object store as often as every 15 minutes.
* Siafu Software last week unveiled hardware data encryption for its Siafu Swarm RAID array, which runs as an iSCSI device. The encryption is AES 256-bit. Siafu Swarm IP Encrypted SAN Appliances are available in 1U, 2U, 3U and 6U configurations with storage capacities ranging from 1TB to 15TB, starting at $9,000.
