Responding to the need for organizations to preserve and protect their information when litigation is reasonably anticipated, CommVault has released an advanced Legal Hold feature set, extending the capabilities of the eDiscovery features in the CommVault Simpana 7.0 software suite.
CommVault’s Legal Hold capability spans both archive and backup stores to help ensure information is preserved. By maintaining a legally defensible audit trail, these features allow customers to reduce the risks associated with non-compliance with regulations such as the US Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) for eDiscovery as well as preserving the evidentiary integrity of content for court submission.
“ESG Research suggests that one out of every two organizations, regardless of size or industry, have been through an electronic discovery event in the past twelve months. As such, they are forced to preserve more and more information to meet legal hold requirements. Properly managing ongoing retention requirements creates additional IT overhead and costs,” said Brian Babineau, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. “CommVault Simpana software offers robust flexibility for organizations dealing with recurring electronic discovery requests, particularly those in post-hold activity, by offering reclassification of held content, data movement and consolidation with existing data stores, across backup, archive or both.”
With expanded features and no need for additional licensing to enable a wide-ranging eDiscovery toolkit, the Legal Hold capability uses a comprehensive, automated approach to search and retrieve data from backups, archives or any Electronically Stored Information (ESI) – such as emails and files – and retain a subset of the data for long-term accessibility.
CommVault Legal Hold helps customers defensibly preserve responsive information that may already be under multiple retention policies. CommVault’s Legal Hold also embraces object level holds, beyond file-based, for a granular level of recovery for both vaulted backup sets and archives at the message or document level.
Post-hold considerations are also supported within the Legal Hold feature set, allowing post-hold data and content to be retained or removed as required.
”We believe the fact that electronic evidence may be scattered across countless locations and diverse electronic formats has increased the risk organizations face when preparing for pre-trial conferences or litigation proceedings,” said Michael Marchi, vice president of product and segment marketing, CommVault. “With CommVault’s unique Singular Information Management approach, however, ESI is managed from one standard interface and pooled into a single repository for collection. This makes implementing CommVault for legal hold and preservation a much easier, lower risk proposition for many enterprises than purchasing separate point solutions and cobbling them together.”
“Today, the CommVault Simpana suite is the only product on the market that offers customers a single unified management platform that combines data protection, archiving, search, replication and resource management technologies, thereby eliminating the need for customers to deploy multiple point solutions and enabling added benefits including increased cost and operational savings,” added Marchi.
