This is a business problem that has been around for a long time, but over the last two to three years it has really risen its head as the costs related to the process of legal discovery continue to rise and lawsuits continue to proliferate.

Companies can allocate a portion of the expenditures typically used for third-party collection and use those funds to invest in their information infrastructure—from the physical storage itself to the management of information at the application level. Doing so will put them in a proactive position to collect and protect relevant data.