Culling PST contents for eDiscovery

Integro culls PST contents for leading US loan servicing company

In early 2013, industry recognized product and services company, Integro, was approached by a leading US loan company to address its mounting PST problem.

Driven by a pressing legal requirement, the company had an urgent need to collect all PSTs across the network and migrate them to a centralized repository so they could perform eDiscovery on the contents.

At first glance, the company believed it had around 7,000 PST files to deal with. However, these were estimates and did not take into consideration all the duplicate files that existed as a consequence of backups. Furthermore, not all locations within the company’s network had been properly scanned for PSTs.

Integro, using TransVault’s PST management tool, Insight, actually discovered their client had almost 10,000 PSTs in total….

With this amount of data to be pulled back across its network for analysis, the company potentially faced what could be an extremely lengthy and disruptive investigation period.

Using TransVault Insight, Integro was able to start culling the data set before migration, thereby minimizing what needed to be dealt with.

TransVault Insight has the unique ability to anaylze the actual contents of PST files, down to individual emails contained within. This gives organizations greater choice over how to deal with PSTs: manage in-place, migrate all, migrate only those that fit criteria or delete in-place.

According to Scott Hyman, Senior Consultant at Integro,

By using Insight, organizations can massively reduce the amount of data they need to pull across the network from PST files in order to meet business and legislative requirements.

Continued Hyman,

A further challenge when tackling PST projects of this scope is that of locked files.

If a user has his/her PST file open in Outlook, access by other agents is blocked.

TransVault Insight is designed to be able to scan locked PST files and collect copies of emails without stopping end users from working.

According to Iain Genders, Insight product specialist at TransVault,

Benefits:

• Massively reduced the amount of data to be pulled across the network.
• Pre-culling of data ‘at source’ additionally reduces eDiscovery times.
• Minimal impact on end users as they are still able to work with PSTs as they are being accessed.
• Option to migrate all or selected PST items to a centrally managed archive such as Exchange or Office 365.
• Enterprise scalability

For more information call Alex Berv at 720-904-1618 or email aberv@integro.com or visit www.integro.com

About Integro

Integro is an award winning, industry recognized products and services firm specializing in Information Governance, Enterprise Content Management, and Content Security solutions. Since 1995, we’ve been delighting clients with technology solutions that support defensible disposal, minimize risk, reduce eDiscovery and storage costs, ensure compliance, govern email records, and enable auto-classification. We’re proud to be named a Top ECM Consultant by research firm, Clutch, a “Cool Vendor” by analyst firm, Gartner, and a Worldwide Governance award-winner by IBM.

Our clients benefit from our own software and tools, our partners’ software and hardware, and the services of the best consultants in the industry.  Our team’s knowledge and value span both technical and business aspects of information management, and especially email management.

About TransVault

TransVault Software is an independent software vendor dedicated to helping organizations protect the viability and integrity of their information archives as they move between different platforms and technologies.

Our products build on over 23 years’ experience with high-end corporate messaging systems and 12 years of implementing and supporting enterprise archiving solutions.  This has resulted in a product suite able to address the unique and often very site-specific challenges that can arise during migration.

To date TransVault is behind over 1,200 migration projects, including some of the largest in the world.

Our proven track record and status as a Microsoft Gold Partner, Veritas, IBM and HP partner means you can rely on TransVault to ensure that your email records remain a discoverable asset as your IT strategies and infrastructures change.

TransVault products are available exclusively through a specialized international network of partners that offer a range of bespoke migration services for their customers.