Email archival for eDiscovery

Messaging & email compliance for legal discovery requirements

While IT departments are already struggling with the rapidly growing storage requirements of email & other messaging stores, the FRCP (federal rules of civil procedure) has increase the importance of electronically stored information (ESI) discovery, further complicating management. As the FRCP continues to evolve with new amendments and court rulings that change what is expected of businesses in terms of archival and retention, IT departments must be agile to change policies and procedures to comply.

For example, businesses have run into problems for producing emails and associated attachments where the emails were not correctly “tied” to the appropriate attachments, where the other party claimed the evidence was not “reasonably usable”. They demanded the appropriate attaching of the file to their respective emails. The business had to perform the eDiscovery again, and incur the costs associated with the data manipulation required to satisfy this stipulation, because their systems lacked the technology to do so.

North American Systems offers solutions that enable businesses to meet these changing requirements quickly and cost-effectively, retaining data for as long as is needed on the right media & format. In addition, our software solutions include single-instance de-duplication which can greatly reduce the size of archives. IT departments can provide legal teams with message-level search and the ability to directly restore relevant messages for further review.

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