The rate at which companies across all industries are migrating to the cloud is staggering—and it’s not slowing down. At the same time, massive data volumes and more frequent litigation are placing heavier e-discovery demands on IT infrastructures. For some, moving to the cloud is a great way to balance those demands with greater efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
Ricoh, an Orange-level Relativity Best in Service Partner, recently migrated their Relativity environment to the cloud. To learn more about their experience, we sat down with David Greetham, vice president of e-discovery operations at Ricoh Forensics.
Sameer: What was the deciding factor in moving your environment to the cloud?
David: There were several deciding factors, some stronger than others. The biggest influencer for us, though, is scalability. If we wanted to add a server or 100 TBs of storage in our previous environment, the process took several weeks. Now, it takes several minutes. That allows us to react more quickly to client requirements. We want to be their business partners and help them out when they have urgent needs—not tell them “Yes, but it’ll take a few weeks.”
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David Greetham will be speaking at Technology in Practice 2015. His session, From Solid State Drives to Vapour State in the Cloud: Challenges in the Next Frontier of Collections will look at what it means to move to the cloud for data storage while addressing the challenges in forensic collection that are coming to the surface.
Don't miss the opportunity to see David Greetham and attend a Relativity workshop all at the same place. Register now for Technology in Practice 2015.
