System and method for facilitating electronic discovery

An information handling system comprising:

• a data storage site comprising a data storage system and a system controller, the system controller communicatively coupled with the data storage system and managing access to the data storage system by one or more user computer systems, the system controller further managing a snapshot of data of the data storage system, wherein the snapshot permits read access to the corresponding data, and the system controller utilizes a copy-on-write technique to perform modifications to the corresponding data, such that the snapshot is immutable but ongoing input/output (I/O) requests from the one or more user computer systems with respect to the data are performed substantially without interruption;
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• an e-discovery site comprising a data cache server and one or more analysis computer systems communicatively coupled with the data cache server, wherein the system controller and data cache server are communicatively coupled via a computer network;
• wherein, upon request from the data cache server, the system controller provides access to the snapshot of data.