Patent ID: 8572043

Claim:
An apparatus for management of e-discovery content comprising: an external storage layer (ESL) interposed between an e-discovery management module (EMA) and an external data store (EDS) that is configured to store immutable, unstructured content collected during e-discovery, the ESL including at least one processing element programmed for: propagating the content to the EDS; and implementing at least one functionality not implemented by the EDS for managing the content stored within the EDS, the at least one functionality including: partitioning an underlying data store in the EDS for multi-tenant support, including: assigning separate ranges of addresses in said underlying data store to each of a plurality of tenants, mapping an item number stored by a tenant to an address within the ranges of addresses assigned to said tenant, and storing said mapping at said EDS; wherein the ESL constitutes an intermediary enabling the EMA access to the EDS.