Shei Funmi

During discovery proceedings, companies nowadays are required to produce relevant data within a reasonable amount of time. However, the problem arises in that the exponential growth of email usage has resulted in enormous masses of data spread across the organisation. This makes the ediscovery task even more overwhelming. In fact, a recent study by the Radicati Group had suggested that a typical organization would generate over 6 GB of electronic data per user per year. That is simply a staggering amount of data for a large corporation. Most of this data and artefacts or potential evidence may be stored in the forms of emails, and thus email discovery is becoming an increasingly more important function to be performed within the overall concept of ediscovery. Some good news for organisations is that with technological advances, the costs of such ediscovery tools are being reduced, with a converse increase in speeds. According to other sources, email volumes are set to increase to over 40 billion person to person emails on a daily basis. Storage, archiving and retrieval of such vast amounts of data require an automated tool to manage such volumes. Selection and procurement of a specialized ediscovery tool will definitely help organisations facing such constraints.