Case Study: Global Financial Services Firm achieves FRCP-compliant 500TB data collection and secure long-term archiving with Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Global Financial Services Firm Supports Compliance with Archiving

Global Financial Services Firm faced urgent regulatory and litigation obligations after acquiring large assets from a failing institution: it needed to locate and collect content from over 70,000 workstations, 2,500 backup tapes and multiple enterprise systems—an estimated 500 TB of structured and unstructured data—within government-mandated timeframes while preserving an FRCP‑compliant chain of custody. The firm engaged Hewlett Packard Enterprise and deployed HP solutions including HP Digital Safe, Digital Safe Restoration Service, HP Legal Hold, Desktop Legal Hold and HP IDOL Echo to secure, index, pre‑cull and manage legal holds and eDiscovery across all media types.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise implemented a grid‑based Digital Safe architecture with regional collection centers and Professional Services-led tape restoration, using intelligent pre‑culling and deduplication to prioritize relevance and reduce network and processing overhead. The solution enabled processing of over 10,000 systems in the initial test phase, sustained roughly 2.8 TB/day to meet the 180‑day mandate, located and collected data from 70,000+ systems, pre‑culled/deduplicated more than 500 TB, provided a secure long‑term archive for legal hold and eDiscovery, and maintained a defensible chain of custody—delivering results that avoided years of work and significantly reduced time and cost versus legacy methods.