Like any movement in the U.S. macroeconomy, the current banking implosion and subsequent credit contraction are hurting a lot of enterprises, but it also is uncovering some opportunities for those in the right place at the right time.
As the government takes over banks such as Washington Mutual and investment houses such as Bear Stearns, you can bet plenty of digital research is starting up behind the scenes to find out who made what bad decision and why. They're also going to be looking for who was cheating, who knew what (and when did they know it), and who ended up with money they weren't supposed to have.

There is renewed interest in the e-discovery software sector, along with other subsets of the IT market, such as secure and managed file transfers, risk management software, enterprise search, and second-tier disk and tape backup and archiving.

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