CommVault Enhances e-Discovery

Responding to the need for organizations to preserve and protect their information when litigation is reasonably anticipated, CommVault (NASDAQ: CVLT) today announced the availability of an advanced Legal Hold feature set, extending the capabilities of the eDiscovery features in the CommVault Simpana® 7.0 software suite.

CommVault’s Legal Hold capability spans both archive and backup stores to help ensure information is preserved. By maintaining a legally defensible audit trail, these features allow customers to reduce the risks associated with non-compliance with regulations such as the US Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) for eDiscovery as well as preserving the evidentiary integrity of content for court submission.

With powerful features and no need for additional licensing to enable a wide-ranging eDiscovery toolkit, the Legal Hold capability uses a comprehensive, automated approach to search and retrieve data from backups, archives or any Electronically Stored Information (ESI) – such as emails and files – and retain a subset of the data for long-term accessibility. CommVault Legal Hold helps customers defensibly preserve responsive information that may already be under multiple retention policies. CommVault’s Legal Hold also embraces object level holds, beyond file-based, for a granular level of recovery for both vaulted backup sets and archives at the message or document level.

Post-hold considerations are also supported within the Legal Hold feature set, allowing post-hold data and content to be retained or removed as required.