Electronic Discovery Providers LDiscovery and SFL Data Choose Ocarina

Ocarina Networks announced Electronic Discovery service providers LDiscovery and SFL Data (formerly SF Legal) have implemented the Ocarina ECOsystem deduplication solution to improve business performance and reduce infrastructure costs pertaining to the retention of legally regulated documents and files.

E-discovery operations – featuring the extensive examination of multiple terabytes of data related to litigation efforts – require providers to build and maintain large data centers to ingest, index, maintain, and serve customer data while meeting strict chain-of-custody requirements. Ocarina’s content-aware deduplication can deliver aggregate savings of up to 80 percent on enterprise data sets used in eDiscovery operations, with files such as Microsoft Office documents reduced by as much as 95 percent. Because the Ocarina platform delivers a 5x increase in effective storage capacity, eDiscovery providers can retain more data in online archival storage, reducing cost and complexity while improving service to their clients.

“LDiscovery has already built a reputation as an aggressive adopter of new technologies which allows us to deliver the industry’s best service levels at the best prices,” said Brian Wolfinger, VP of Electronic Discovery and Forensic Services. “Ocarina fits right into that strategy. They delivered so much benefit that we can really improve the management of our customers’ data.”

The Ocarina ECOsystem provides a data reduction solution for online storage, reducing data up to 80 percent depending on the file types and decreasing the effective cost of data storage. ECOsystem works with a variety of Network Attached Storage (NAS) and file server systems, including tiered-storage architectures, where storage is capacity-optimized using Ocarina’s content-aware dedupe and compression algorithms – with a variety of algorithms that support over 900 file types. The Ocarina ECOsystem reduces the files that routinely stretch enterprise storage resources, such as Microsoft Office files, PDFs, MP3 files, and most other common file types, leading to as much as 5x more disk capacity.

"Companies providing eDiscovery services have to deal with copious amounts of data, which needs to be readily available for review rather than stored offsite on tape needing to be restored when requested," said Carter George, Vice President of Products at Ocarina. "Rather than continually adding servers, disks and switches to make this data more accessible, companies can implement data reduction, allowing them to store more data online longer, dramatically reducing the need for restores from tape and improving service to attorneys and other end-users. Ocarina’s ECOsystem can boost savings over traditional deduplication solutions, without impact to existing applications and workflows, across multiple storage tiers for dramatic cost reductions through the data lifecycle."