Kroll Ontrack, a provider of ediscovery services to companies involved in litigation and investigations, reports what it calls huge demand for ediscovery services provided by its new data centre in Germany.
Since opening in May 2014, the firm says it has delivered 56 million pages into document review databases hosted in Germany and copied 7,000 GB of data for processing. It says that it’s hosting document review databases for German law firms and their clients involved in investigations and litigation across a range of industry sectors.
Kroll Ontrack’s launch in Germany coincided with the release of ediscovery.com Onsite, a portable, self-contained ediscovery product that companies across Europe can use at their own premises behind their own firewalls.
Tim Phillips, Managing Director of Kroll Ontrack International Legal Technologies, said: “We opened our data centre in Germany as part of our ongoing commitment to our clients globally, to provide ediscovery solutions locally. We are delighted to see such strong demand for our services from corporates and law firms in Germany, from such a broad range of industries sectors including automotive, electronics, engineering, financial services and insurance, manufacturing, logistics, technology and transport. We are seeing a much greater use of ediscovery technologies across a wide range of both domestic and international legal cases in Europe in investigations and also in litigation. We will continue to fulfill our commitment to our clients to provide in-country ediscovery solutions by opening a French data centre in 2015.”
And Helmut Sauro, a Senior Consultant at Kroll Ontrack in Germany, said: “With the help of our services, our German clients can now comply more easily with data protection laws, as well as protect the confidentiality of their data as needed. The demand for local ediscovery services in Germany has exceeded our expectations. We are growing our German ediscovery consultancy so that we can provide our clients not only with innovative technology but also with local ediscovery expertise to help them get the most out of it and address the challenges of ediscovery successfully.”
Kroll Ontrack operates data centres also in the UK, the US and Japan and reports that it manages over 20 petabytes of active data storage on behalf of clients.
