Case Study: TCDI achieves rapid search across 3 billion legal documents with NetApp FlexPod

Quickly Unearthing Value in 3 Billion Legal Documents

TCDI, a legal e-discovery and analytics provider managing roughly 3 billion legal documents, faced rapid, unpredictable data growth (600% in just over five years) and the operational pain of ingesting and searching hundreds of millions of small files. Its legacy block-only SANs required manual file-system resizing, slowed ingests, and made secure multitenancy and reliable disaster recovery difficult—threatening TCDI’s promise of fast, accurate search results for legal teams.

TCDI standardized on FlexPod converged infrastructure (NetApp FAS systems, ONTAP, Cisco UCS and Nexus) with partner ePlus to enable automated NFS growth, secure multitenancy, and simplified single-pane management. The solution sped deployments, cut recovery time objectives from months to 72 hours, reduced storage needs through deduplication/compression (up to ~60% data reduction), and let TCDI reuse older systems to save ~95% versus buying new shelves—restoring rapid ingest, searchability, and resilience for its cloud-based legal platform.

TCDI

Frank Bounds

Senior Storage Engineer