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The Role of Tape

By Brett Tarr
July 30, 2008

Information stored on various kinds of electronic media is becoming central to virtually all corporate investigations, whether they are litigation-, regulatory- or audit-driven. The adoption of e-mail as the standard communication and document distribution mechanism, coupled with its exponential growth, has focused attention on electronically stored information.

When conducting an investigation, where one looks for that information can be critical to both the success and cost of the project. Accessing data from the 'live' computer systems is the most obvious place to start. However, when an investigation requires copies of e-mails and/or documents from the past ' anything older than three months or more ' live computers cease to provide good returns.

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