Despite the fact that most say the need to produce electronically stored information has increased in the past year, the majority of companies are still coping with those discovery requests on a one-off basis.

In a survey of IT and in-house counsel commissioned by Kroll Ontrack, 63 percent of U.S. and 54 percent of U.K. companies believe the need to produce ESI for litigation and or an investigation has increased in the past 12 months. However, few have implemented an ESI discovery readiness strategy.