Over the last decade, there has been a steady increase in the volume, variety, and velocity of data and formats that are in scope for ediscovery matters. When ediscovery first hit the legal stage, a big case might be 100 GB — stored at a cost of $2,500/GB — and data sources might include Word, Excel, email, and possibly network shares. Though data volumes have increased over the last 15 years, the main data sources remained fairly constant — even the initial focus on cell phone data was limited primarily to call logs, voicemail, and text messages. Today, however, a big case might contain terabytes of data, in dozens of different formats, all of which must be ...