Autonomy to host data in e-discovery

With the increasing amounts of data to process in e-discovery, and their escalating costs, corporations and law firms have to look for more manageable and cost-effective ways to manage the process. So in any large litigation with discovery requests, outsourcing is going to be a topic under consideration. Now, you can add Autonomy to the list of items to consider in outsourcing data acquisition and review in e-discovery.

Autonomy recently announced a hosted e-discovery solution. They appear well-suited to the task with approximately 6,000 servers across five data centers and an intellectual property portfolio that consists of an early case assessment process and automatic categorization of data to prioritize it for review. Autonomy’s assets are also Unicode compliant that gives them language independence in processing data for international litigation and arbitration. In addition, Autonomy has audio support if discovery requests include voice records like in financial services and subprime litigation cases. So, as an afterthought to this note, and a forethought to litigation, make sure your records retention policy includes voice records.