In an article for Legaltech News, ALM’s Frank Ready engaged with David Greetham, EDRM Executive Advisor, Anna Mercado Clark, leader of the data security and privacy and e-discovery and digital forensics practice teams at Phillips Lytle and Mary Mack, CEO and Chief Legal Technologist for EDRM to explore the rumors of supply chain impact on our eDiscovery community.
Ready opens with this assessment:
Some e-discovery providers are beginning to feel the pinch of global supply chain disruptions that are pushing the delivery dates of items like hard drives and laptops by months, raising the cost of vital technologies, and delaying the speed at which digital evidence can be recovered from the field. Fortunately, clients and their timetables don’t appear to be feeling the brunt of those difficulties—yet.
Frank Ready, Legaltech News
Component shortages, like laptops, chips and the ubiquitous hard drives are beginning to have an impact in eDiscovery workflows, with some considering wiping and reusing drives and others ordering many months’ supply of drives rather than a Just-In-Time week’s supply.
In the industry we’re in, [wiping drives] is pretty hard to do because people want to keep things forever. A forensic image, for example, you could have multiple copies of a forensic image in multiple places for contingency. … One image could be stored on three different drives and two different cloud environments for 100% contingency.
David Greetham, EDRM Executive Advisor
Mary Mack relayed reports of missed and delayed deliveries and the lack of personnel to “people over” the delays and that component price decreases have stalled or reversed for the first time.
Read the entire article here.
