Exterro, an e-discovery software provider, has unveiled its latest e-discovery tool, Fusion In-Place Preservation. The new tool is designed to help companies reduce electronically stored information (ESI) spoliation risks and e-discovery collection costs by automatically suspending and reinstating document retention policies based on legal hold notification status.

“Our clients are increasingly concerned about sanctions and fines due to inadvertent destruction of ESI,” said Ted Gary, senior product marketing manager at Exterro. “The legal teams are seeking solutions to eliminate spoliation risk and reduce the high costs of collect-everything-to-preserve approaches.”

Exterro's in-place preservation technology supports both structured and unstructured data source systems, including Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint, Office 365, and Informatica Data Archive. Additional systems will be added in the future. Fusion In-Place Preservation also advances defensible data deletion practices by providing a direct link between each legal hold and its associated preservation actions so deletion policies can be promptly reinstated as soon as holds are released.

In conjunction with this product advancement, Exterro has partnered with both Informatica, an independent provider of data integration software, and RSD, a provider of information governance solutions for the enterprise. Exterro Fusion is being integrated with Informatica Data Archive to enable in-place information of structured artifacts potentially relevant to a matter and subject to legal hold. The integration between RSD GLASS and Exterro Fusion will deliver enhanced capabilities for in-place preservation and full life-cycle information governance to circumvent potential legal issues.