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Kazeon Unleashes VMware Capabilities for eDiscovery
Kazeon Software Can Automatically Discover VMware Instances for Fool-Proof eDiscovery and Solve Unique Information Management Challenges for Virtual Environments
| Source: Kazeon
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA--(Marketwire - September 9, 2008) - Kazeon Systems, Inc., a leading provider
of intelligent eDiscovery solutions, today announced the availability of
VMware support for its award-winning Information Server product line.
Version 3.1 of the software fully supports VMware instances and VMware
images, and allows customers to discover unknown or hidden virtual
instances on servers, laptops and desktops, thus providing discovery,
collection, processing, analysis and review capabilities for information
stored across these VMware instances, for complete and defensible
enterprise-wide eDiscovery. This capability, combined with Kazeon's
full-feature eDiscovery suite, is amongst the most complete Information
Management software in the marketplace today.
As the usage of VMware and virtual environments has increased rapidly, so
has the risk that unidentified and unknown Electronically Stored
Information (ESI) is not being thoroughly investigated for eDiscovery.
Kazeon's introduction of VMware-aware capabilities now enables
corporations, service providers and law firms to collect information from a
wide range of data sources and repositories across geographic distributions
of corporations, and provides an auditable means of performing eDiscovery
across all ESI in physical or virtual storage devices. The complete
eDiscovery set of capabilities thus ensures thorough, accurate and relevant
early-case assessments for corporations as well as efficient, in-place
first-pass review for case matters.
Kazeon's innovative VMware support and ability to guarantee thorough and
defensible eDiscovery has evoked industry analyst interest and endorsement.
"With the popularity and rapid adoption of server virtualization, more and
more information is stored in virtual machines. Traditional eDiscovery
products and methods have not evolved sufficiently and can potentially miss
out on important, relevant and incomplete information associated with a
legal matter that is contained in unknown or deliberately hidden virtual
environments. Kazeon's auto-discovery capability and its in-place analysis
and collection prowess in VMware environments is what corporations need to
guarantee completeness, thoroughness and defensibility of their eDiscovery
and litigation support processes," said Arun Taneja, Taneja Group.
Kazeon's platform empowers corporations to automatically discover ESI in
unknown or hidden virtual machines, and analyzes ESI in-place and collects
relevant information from these sources in an agent-less fashion. The new
functionality is a key enhancement for helping corporations, service
providers and law firms streamline their discovery, collection, processing,
analysis and review methods for proactive and reactive eDiscovery processes
to ensure that they discover all relevant and necessary information for any
litigation related activity without data spoliation and modifications to
metadata attributes of files and emails. The Kazeon platform supports
VMware ESX and ACE environments on Windows XP, Vista and other versions on
servers, laptops and desktops.
"Kazeon's strong capabilities for VMware environments are not only
convenient for IT departments but more importantly, they provide
fool-proof, defensible and thorough eDiscovery capabilities starting from
auto-discovery through processing, analysis and review for corporations,"
said Karthik Kannan, vice president of marketing and business development,
Kazeon. "Legal departments can now be rest assured that all their relevant
data sources, physical and virtual, are being discovered, processed and
analyzed for eDiscovery, and optionally legally held using KazHold™
either in-place or in secure, target repositories," added Kannan.
About Kazeon
Kazeon revolutionizes the way companies perform eDiscovery by using the
Kazeon Information Access Platform software to intelligently discover,
search & index, classify and act on electronically stored information.
Kazeon provides a full spectrum of proactive and reactive eDiscovery
solutions in response to litigation, information security and privacy,
corporate investigations, regulatory compliance and storage consolidation
requirements. The Kazeon Information Server software automates eDiscovery
functions from identification, collection through processing, preservation,
analysis and review for corporations, service providers, and law firms.
Through the development of unique search & indexing, analysis and workflow
automation technology, Kazeon has been recognized by various industry
forums, including Gartner's eDiscovery MarketScope and the recent
Socha-Gelbmann eDiscovery Survey 2008 where Kazeon was recognized as a Top
5 eDiscovery Software Provider. Kazeon has established partnerships with
leading companies, including Fujitsu, Siemens, Google, Network Appliance,
Oracle and Symantec. Kazeon provides the industry's highest scalability and
performance capability of more than 17 terabytes (TB) of data per day,
while offering the lowest cost, $4.30 per Gigabyte. For more information,
visit www.kazeon.com or call +1-877-KAZEON1.