RenewData Sees a Sharp Increase in Tape Report Requests as Companies Prepare for the Amended Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to be Enforced

Austin TX, Sept. 21, 2006 - RenewData®, a leader in Information Governance™ solutions for corporations and law firms, has seen a steep increase in requests for backup tape reports, including Tape Catalog reports, File Listings, Post Office Custodian reports and loose Mailbox Custodian reports, as corporations clamber to ready themselves for the changes to Rule 26(b)(2) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP).

Many corporations have accumulated a large number of backup tapes because of overlapping litigation holds and business acquisitions. The new rules place a burden on corporations to identify whether or not the information on those tapes is potentially responsive. As a result, companies are using the reports to catalog their inventory of tapes and determine what tapes actually need to be retained.

Though RenewData has been offering the reports for nearly two years, the increase in demand has been dramatic with the advent of the changes to the FRCP. The reports most commonly requested by RenewData customers are File Listings. A listing of file types contained on each tape is provided in either a spreadsheet or database format, permitting companies to select tapes that only contain system files and rotate them back into the recycling process. This selection saves larger corporations a great deal of money on tapes alone. The Tape Catalog Report follows in popularity, establishing when a tape was created and what backup software was used. This inexpensive option allows companies to recycle tapes that are older than their oldest litigation hold.

"The new rules have given companies the impetus to document all of the backup tapes they have amassed over time and provide a paper trail for whether or not they preserve each one" said Bob Gomes, CEO for RenewData. "The reports also allow corporations to decrease their storage and reduce unnecessary tape processing and attorney review time for future litigation."

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RenewData is a leading provider of e-discovery and ESI (electronically stored information) risk management services to assist corporations and law firms responding to lawsuits, investigations, and audits. Superior legal expertise, scalable technology, and a state-of-the-art facility featuring government level physical security enable RenewData to provide clients with secure, accessible, and manageable data in a cost effective and timely manner. RenewData's e-discovery services cover the five critical steps of the e-discovery process, including planning, preservation and collection, processing, review, and production. RenewData's ESI risk management services, which include backup tape liability management, data migration, and evidence storage, provide corporations with a proactive means of managing the risks associated with ESI. RenewData has been ranked a "top provider" in the Socha-Gelbmann Electronic Discovery Survey Report for four consecutive years and was ranked in the 2006 and 2007 Inc. 500 lists of fastest-growing privately held companies in the U.S. For more information, visit www.renewdata.com or call 888.811.3789.

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