Austin, TX, September 21, 2006 - RenewData, a leader in Information Governance solutions for corporations and law firms, has seen a steep increase in requests for backup tape reports, including Tape Catalog reports, File Listings, Post Office Custodian reports and loose Mailbox Custodian reports, as corporations clamber to ready themselves for the changes to Rule 26(b)(2) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP).
Many corporations have accumulated a large number of backup tapes because of overlapping litigation holds and business acquisitions. The new rules place a burden on corporations to identify whether or not the information on those tapes is potentially responsive. As a result, companies are using the reports to catalog their inventory of tapes and determine what tapes actually need to be retained.
Though RenewData has been offering the reports for nearly two years, the increase in demand has been dramatic with the advent of the changes to the FRCP. The reports most commonly requested by RenewData customers are File Listings. A listing of file types contained on each tape is provided in either a spreadsheet or database format, permitting companies to select tapes that only contain system files and rotate them back into the recycling process. This selection saves larger corporations a great deal of money on tapes alone. The Tape Catalog Report follows in popularity, establishing when a tape was created and what backup software was used. This inexpensive option allows companies to recycle tapes that are older than their oldest litigation hold.
"The new rules have given companies the impetus to document all of the backup tapes they have amassed over time and provide a paper trail for whether or not they preserve each one" said Bob Gomes, CEO for RenewData. "The reports also allow corporations to decrease their storage and reduce unnecessary tape processing and attorney review time for future litigation."
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