StoredIQ Announces Desktop Agent

StoredIQ, a leading provider of Intelligent Information Management and eDiscovery technologies, today announced the StoredIQ Desktop Agent Solution for organizations who have geographically distributed sites, a highly mobile workforce, or a large number of employees. The new product consists of a central management console and network friendly software agents that can be installed only when necessary in order to filter and retrieve responsive data for investigations and electronic discovery projects. The unobtrusive agent operates without disrupting end-users and can automatically remove itself upon completion of data collection.

Collecting email and user files from remote offices or mobile users is problematic due to the combination of low network bandwidth and high latency. The challenges can be further compounded for mobile workers who use VPN connections. Organizations that use file copying software across an extended network typically over-collect what is necessary, as up to 90% of desktop data is non-responsive to a legal matter. They also face significant difficulties properly preserving all metadata, taking enormous amounts of time to complete data collection activities, and having no automated method to restart the collection process after a network interruption or if a remote user disconnects while a collection is in progress. The result is that either a member of the IT staff or a consultant needs to be dispatched to a remote office to perform custodian collection, or remote users are forced to ship their laptops into a main office for a few days. StoredIQ’s Desktop Agent solution prevails over all of these difficulties in a speedy, accurate and cost-effective manner.

“In the compressed regulatory investigation and litigation schedules we are seeing today, organizations need to begin their analysis in minutes, not days, and preserve and collect in hours, not weeks,” said Vivian Tero, Program Manager, Compliance Infrastructure, IDC. “The new StoredIQ Desktop Agent complements StoredIQ’s existing broad federated enterprise systems access and provides leading information management industry capabilities for remote offices and mobile workforces.”

“IT organizations are highly reluctant to add new permanent software agents to their standard desktop configurations due to the increased effort and cost to manage them,” said Keith Zoellner, Chief Technology Officer at StoredIQ. He adds, “StoredIQ’s temporary agent is designed for just-in-time deployment and self-removal upon completion of assigned tasks.”

StoredIQ locates, identifies, indexes and classifies unstructured and semi-structured data across the industry’s broadest range of storage, email, archiving, content, document and record management systems. StoredIQ provides precise search and analysis, enabling investigators to analyze and target data that is potentially responsive to litigation or investigations across the organization, regardless of where it is physically located. Using StoredIQ’s litigation hold policy, organizations can preserve potentially responsive data where it is located or copy the data without changing metadata properties to a retention platform. The potentially responsive data can be further filtered and de-duplicated before being produced in a review-ready format supporting Concordance, CT Summation, Native Format, EDRM XML or FTI Ringtail. Additionally, for large volumes of data, StoredIQ supports the ability to perform discovery exports, allowing legal teams to begin work in popular review systems before all enterprise data has been collected, eliminating the delay between collection and review.

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