To Cloud Or Not To Cloud?

...that is the question so many service providers are asking themselves now.

Many of my friends know that I am working on this project, but none of them know anything about eDiscovery or what it takes write great processing and Early Case Assessment (ECA) software. However, most of my buddies are techies like me and understand business. It’s funny to see their faces and hear their comments when I say something like “eDiscovery is headed to the cloud”. See, most other industries are either already in the cloud, or at least taking the elevator to get there. It’s foreign to them when they find out that eDiscovery is dragging its feet kicking and screaming. That’s where this blog and project come in. I believe there is a huge opportunity to capture the business that I believe is already available for a cloud-based solution. I also believe it’s just a matter of time before corporations and law firms are expecting most, if not all, of the eDiscovery phases to be conducted in the cloud. Speed and price are two of the factors that will win the war to move this industry to the cloud.

The next 24 to 36 months will be an interesting transition in this space. I expect to see more people like me who believe the cloud is the future of eDiscovery creating competing products and services. I also expect to see the “big players” of the industry figure out that they are behind the curve and scramble to come up with a way to straddle the line of traditional infrastructure and cloud-based infrastructure. It should make for interesting times!