Case Study: Leading Global Law Firm achieves 144% faster global eDiscovery transfers with Aspera

Accelerating eDiscovery and Litigation Support with Secure, High-Speed Data Sharing

A global law firm with more than 1,000 professionals across North America, Asia and Europe faced a critical eDiscovery challenge: teams needed to collect and share multi-gigabyte electronically stored information from 12 offices to a central Isilon repository in New York, but legacy tools (Robocopy and Windows file sharing over VPN) were slow and unreliable—sometimes taking up to a week and putting court-mandated timelines at risk.

The firm deployed Aspera (Enterprise Server, Connect Server, Shares and Console) integrated with Active Directory and VLink bandwidth controls to provide secure, high-speed transfers without new hardware. The solution cut transfer times dramatically (a 3 GB file now moves US→Japan in under 15 minutes versus up to 36 hours previously), improved logging and compliance, simplified user access, preserved network performance, and enabled the firm to meet strict eDiscovery deadlines.