With a 400 percent annual increase in the volume of storage required for its electronic discovery process, eDirect Impact demanded the flexibility to instantly bring the vast archives of file storage needed for new projects online and offline with the ability to back up this data quickly and efficiently. Additionally, its powerful search applications needed fast, block-level SAN storage to process ever-increasing volumes of data within tight time frames. The significant role that storage plays in eDirect Impact’s core operations meant that the company needed a reliable, cost-effective storage solution that would remain so over the long term. The company looked at options from several vendors but they either offered only part of the overall solution needed or their price, licensing fees and support costs would have negatively affected its competitiveness. eDirect turned to Minnesota-based Emergent Systems Exchange (ESX).

“eDirect needed a unified storage solution that allowed them to use their existing equipment and cut the cost and complexity of administering their existing and future infrastructure. RELDATA was the ideal choice. It easily and completely addressed all of eDirect’s requirements at a price point that was unbeatable,” according to Henry Cornelius, the President of ESX.

The nature of its business means that eDirect Impact benefits from outstanding in-house storage expertise and it is wise to the hidden and long-term costs of storage. As such, the company was not only concerned with the initial costs of the storage system, but equally with the likely administration overheads, ongoing service and upgrade costs from the supplier and with the scalability and likely lifespan of a new system.

“RELDATA provided us with a highly competitive entry point for a powerful unified storage solution that satisfies many of our needs, including the ability to scale cost-effectively,” said Sami Rahman, CEO of eDirect Impact. “RELDATA’s open architecture left us free to choose a mixture of arrays to suit our exact needs and allowed us to re-use existing storage investments. Moreover, we have the flexibility in the future to scale speed and capacity independently and are free from vendor lock-in. This gives us a competitive advantage in the marketplace, and allows us to offer our clients unparalleled cost, quality, and efficiency.”

About eDirect Impact

eDirect Impact is a leading innovator for law firms and corporate legal departments and sets a new standard for best practices in the electronic discovery industry. With the expertise of a big firm, but with the cost-control and customer service of an in-house department, eDirect Impact delivers the experience and technology needed to navigate the electronic data minefield. Managed by a team of nationally recognized leaders and innovators, eDirect Impact ensures successful strategies required to manage, process, review, and produce electronic evidence quickly and efficiently. .

About RELDATA

RELDATA is the leader of a new generation of consolidated and unified storage solutions that deliver iSCSI SAN, NAS and WAN replication functions on a single virtualized storage platform. The solutions are easy to implement, operate and manage, yet deliver enterprise-class functionality. RELDATA’s “pay-as-you-grow” design leverages the customer’s previous disk storage investments and liberates them from future vendor lock-in. Customers can independently scale storage capacity and performance, as well as migrate data, without application disruption and without forklift box upgrades. RELDATA products are designed to embrace third-party disk drives and to co-exist with more expensive storage solutions from vendors such as Network Appliance® and EMC®. RELDATA is headquartered in New Jersey. RELDATA products are available worldwide through authorized value-added resellers and system integrators. More information is available at www.RELDATA.com