Social Media and Cloud Computing Discovery Consulting

The explosion of cloud computing and social media has put technology, collaboration, and communication at everyone’s fingertips. This includes your employees. From messaging, to file sharing and even video chatting, the means by which people can create, store and distribute electronic information is endless. These end-user benefits represent the latest round of technology challenges that lawyers face when crafting discovery strategies. The answers to questions such as “What data exists?,” “How do we find it?,” “Is it discoverable?” and “Dow do we collect it?” are no longer simple answers.

iDS is a thought leader in the development and implementation of best practices for discovery in the realm of cloud computing and social networking. As part of its advice to clients, including Fortune 100 companies, iDS constantly evaluates social media sources and cloud computing technologies to ensure that response plans and technology deployments empower clients to fulfill their discovery obligations.

To manage the evolving legal landscape on issues such as privacy, discoverability and admissibility of social media and cloud computing content, iDS offers the following services: 

• Enterprise social media policy and technology assessment.
• Cloud computing data mapping and discovery compliance review.
• Discovery response planning for cloud computing data sources.
• Social media discovery program development, deployment and internal training.
• Social media and cloud computing data identification, preservation, collection, processing and analysis.

Social media and cloud computing discovery does not have to be expensive or overly complex. In fact, it can be the opposite with the right plan and the right team.