eDiscovery, Tape and eMag Solutions
Fuelled by the need to comply with ever increasing regulatory demands, businesses are increasingly having to produce documents stored electronically. When these documents date back months or even years, the need to be able to recover them quickly and efficiently is vital. Often the documents are needed because of enquiries by auditors, regulatory bodies or to support legal action and there is a very short time in which to meet their demands.
eMag Solutions can use back-up and archive tape as a source for these documents and quickly extract the data required. Tape also has a number of unique properties that enhance the discovery process and provide benefits over other sources of data. Once data is written to tape it is much more difficult to amend than data stored on disk.
The benefits of using tape are as follows:
- Tape archives hold complete copies of company data taken at multiple points in time, making the identification of changes, patterns of behavior or illicit acts much more straightforward.
- Data can be sourced from points in time that precede any subsequent file deletion.
- Tape provides a single source for all file types including eMail, documents and financial reports reducing the complexity and cost of the extraction process.
- Tape can be used to retrieve data from multiple sites, systems and individuals.
- Sophisticated forensic techniques mean that duplicate files can be quickly identified and removed reducing the time and cost of examination.