Call it a mixed blessing: while the amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) limited discoverable data to what is proportional, they also expanded the types of data that can be deemed discoverable.

Responding to the growing prevalence of new media in discovery, Globanet’s Merge1 archiving platform recently released an upgrade “to archive custom messaging types with the same ease and efficiency as more conventional messaging formats,” said Michael Swarz, information governance strategist at Globanet.