A Fortune 20 company was all set to move its e-mail and collaboration systems to the cloud. The business case was obvious: It would be cheaper, more scalable, and easier to manage. The chief information officer was about to pull the trigger.
Only one problem: The company hadn’t considered the move’s implications on e-discovery. Where would the data be stored? How quickly could it be accessed, analyzed, and removed for delivery to the opposing litigant? When would e-mails and other data be deleted? How could they prove that documents had not been manipulated?
