Clearwell Extends E-Discovery Reach

Clearwell Systems, a provider of appliances for processing e-discovery requests, today will extend the scalability of its core architecture with an upgrade that allows each appliance to handle 100 million documents that can be processed at a rate of 1TB a day.

Both the number of e-discovery requests and the amount of data that needs to be sifted through are increasing exponentially. To solve this problem, version 5.5 of the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform has added parallel processing capabilities capable of leveraging multicore processors, said Venkat Rangan, chief technology officer for Clearwell.

The new upgrade also supports global deduplication and provides a single user interface for administrators of clusters of Clearwell appliances and an enhanced search capability that analyzes data in e-mail attachments such as spreadsheets. This latter capability is crucial, said Rangan, because most e-discovery tools don’t analyze data in attachments that could prove crucial to any given case.

Finally, the new version of the Clearwell appliance also allows users organize data into “cases” that mirror how data is organized around most lawsuits, said Rangan.