'Electronic Discovery' Industry Blooming
An AP newswire article by Brian Bergstein, via Yahoo! News, reports that:
Day and night, rows of whirring, blinking computers sock away enormous batches of digital records sent by companies involved in lawsuits. Other files are discovered deep in hard drives — wedged between everything from personal e-mails to pornography — by Kroll Ontrack forensic teams whose code names keep their missions secret.
All this once was an arcane backwater of the legal-services field. Electronic discovery was commonly performed by local computer experts who played golf with law firm procurement officers.
But several factors — including the inexpensive abundance of data storage, high-profile lawsuits and strict new laws such as Sarbanes-Oxley that demand thorough corporate archiving — are making electronic discovery a lucrative and competitive slice of information technology.
posted by Fergie @ 1/29/2006 11:39:00 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home