Given the explosive growth of electronic information in corporate America, managing electronic discovery is increasingly a challenge for corporate IT departments, in-house and outside counsel, each of whom are stakeholders. In December of 2006, the Judicial Conference of the US amended the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) to clarify the roles, responsibilities and discovery obligations of the various parties to litigation. The amendments, for the first time, made specific reference to electronically stored information, or ESI, as it is now commonly known. The changes in attitudes toward e-discovery are noticeable and the amendments have, without question, helped create an unprecedented level of dialog and collaboration to understand how electronic information is created, used, managed and disposed of in the corporate environment.

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So much of Computer Forensic work is associated with data recovery from hard disk drives, USB pens and other common data storage media. Even on the television data is generally seen only to be stored on a limited range of media.

Companies large and small create an impressive amount of data, including email messages, documents and presentations. Most of that data is unstructured, existing primarily on corporate file servers, employee desktop and notebook computers. Industry analysts estimate that this unstructured data accounts for 80% of all corporate information, and expect it to grow 50% or more each year.