{"id":51649,"date":"2022-06-28T09:37:03","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T01:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/version-2.com\/?p=51649"},"modified":"2022-07-08T17:50:53","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T09:50:53","slug":"fast-and-simple-ediscovery-with-backup-and-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/version-2.com\/zh\/2022\/06\/fast-and-simple-ediscovery-with-backup-and-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast and Simple eDiscovery with Backup and Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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What is eDiscovery?<\/h4>

Electronic discovery (sometimes known as eDiscovery, e-discovery) is one of those terms that means slightly different things in different contexts. <\/p>

For example, in legal spheres, eDiscovery involves identifying, preserving, collecting, processing, reviewing, and analyzing electronically stored information (ESI). The term also shows up in digital forensics, which focuses on identifying, preserving, collecting, analyzing, and reporting on digital information\u2014clearly very similar, but not quite equivalent. <\/p>

In general, eDiscovery is the electronic aspect of identifying, collecting, and producing electronically stored information, such as emails, documents, databases, audio, and video files, and also includes metadata such as time-date stamps, file properties, and author and recipient information. In other words\u2014regardless of the specific driving need\u2014eDiscovery refers to finding and retrieving electronically stored \u2018stuff\u2019. <\/p>

Sounds easy enough, right? But as anyone who\u2019s performed eDiscovery knows, today\u2019s information-enabled organizations produce an awful lot of that stuff. In fact, the tendency for every single action we take to produce a digital trail led public-interest technologist Bruce Schneier to observe that \u201cdata is the exhaust of the information age\u201d [Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World, pg. 4].<\/p>

Consequently, the sheer volume of electronically stored information makes eDiscovery a logistical challenge. Now, add in the time-specific nature of many requests\u2014as in, needing to retrieve a file or record as it existed at a certain time on a certain date, a certain number of years ago\u2014and the challenge becomes even greater. <\/p>\n

Beyond backup: enabling quick and simple eDiscovery<\/h4>

While the retention utilities included with software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications and cloud services may be adequate for retrieving something that\u2019s a few weeks old, they certainly aren\u2019t intended to provide\u2014nor are they capable of providing\u2014a substitute for long-term backup and the use cases it enables, including disaster recovery<\/a> and eDiscovery.<\/p>

To be resilient in the face of outages, compromises, and misconfigurations (or simply to find a crucial piece of information), your organization needs to be able to search and access SaaS and cloud data quickly and easily. Imagine the difference between a recovery mission aided by coordinates and a map versus a vague notion that someone is somewhere. <\/p>

Fortunately, with the right backup solution in place<\/a>, eDiscovery really can be a breeze. Let\u2019s look at a real-world example. <\/p>\n

ALPLA\u2019s experience<\/h4>

With around 22,000 employees across 45 countries, ALPLA <\/a>is one of the world\u2019s leading manufacturers of high-quality plastic packaging.<\/p>

The company\u2019s rapid global expansion and cloud migration required an agile Microsoft 365 backup and recovery solution that could meet ALPLA\u2019s need for 10-year data retention, and Keepit is proud to fulfill this need.<\/p>

With other solutions, finding the right data to restore can be a tedious task, especially when very little information is provided by users\u2014but Keepit\u2019s unique and intelligent search features make it easy. In the words of Stefan Toefferl, Senior Data Center Engineer at ALPLA: \u201cKeepit provides search filters that make eDiscovery simple, allowing us to quickly find and restore an exact file.\u201d<\/p>

One of the features most valued by ALPLA is the option to share a secure link to download a file, quickly getting the data back to the users. It\u2019s features like this Public Links (40-second demo video<\/a>) that makes Keepit more than just an ordinary backup and that helps our customers to become more efficient in their daily IT operations. Read more about the ALPLA customer case here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Risk management in the digital age<\/h4>

The nature of backup and restoration is that you often don\u2019t know when something might be needed: unexpected audits, legal discovery, cybersecurity incidents, or even an employee needing to recover something that they deleted years ago\u2014these can all happen at any time.<\/p>

That\u2019s why truly managing risk requires a third-party backup solution that: <\/p>