Info Management Technology

21st century e-discovery technology clearly has value in that it facilitates discovery for a host of initiatives that require information access and classification. In short, it is a technology with broad information governance and management applicability, a claim that niche players can never make. This technology integrates directly with the most common data storage, email, database and date archival platforms in existence today to provide corporate clients with flexibility without re-tooling, an approach that not only extends the lifecycle, utility and value of any technology investment, but will be sure to put a smile on even the most austere CFO’s face.

The eDiscovery Struggle - Pricing and Small Jobs

With the change in FRCP, all companies are required to discover, search and produce electronic stored information. For Fortune 2000 companies, the price tag for eDiscovery jobs typically run in the millions of dollars. eDiscovery vendors compete aggressively for Fortune 2000 business.
However a more seedy side of eDiscovery has been identified by Craig Ball of LTN in his new article Too Little, Too Late.

Small companies facing litigation procedings must meet new FRCP regulations, too. But they are finding it challenging to even get the attention of eDiscovery vendors. They find themselves in a Catch 22....needing to meet federal regulations while their smaller eDiscovery jobs are ignored by big vendors.

Read Craig's full article and find out the truth about eDiscovery vendors! - Too Little, Too Late.

Kazeon eDiscovery Solutions featured in Information Week

With its award winning eDiscovery software and growing list of Global 2000 companies which rely on its eDiscovery for proactive and reactive litigation processes, Kazeon makes the news again in a new article in Information Week. To find out the whole story....See the full article below.......

http://www.informationweek.com/news/business_intelligence/mining/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=210604040&pgno=1&queryText=&isPrev=

Karthik Kannan Quoted in eWeek on Financial Crisis and its impact on eDiscovery

Karthik's Quote....

"The effects of the bailout package passed by the House and Senate last week [on the e-discovery industry] are probably going to come in this [fourth] quarter," Karthik Kannan, vice president of marketing and business development for Kazeon, a respected e-discovery software provider, told me."In the last couple of years, we've had significant traction and sufficient growth. But we have barely touched the tip of the iceberg in terms of market availability, from an addressable market standpoint." Kannan said he thinks this Wall Street-centered meltdown clearly will be a further impetus "to get people to call us. We are seeing that more people are adopting a proactive position on information management," he said. "We are also seeing more hits on our Web site the last couple of months."


Read the whole story: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/eDiscovery-Search-and-Storage-Providers-Await-a-Litigation-Boom-Following-Financial-Crash/

Kazeon and Quantum form solution Alliance

Kazeon announced a solutions alliance with Quantum Corp., the leading global specialist in backup, recovery and archive. Kazeon's ability to perform automated eDiscovery collection, preservation, processing, analysis and review on all electronically stored information (ESI) residing within an enterprise works seamlessly with Quantum's DXi-Series disk backup systems incorporating data de-duplication and replication technology. The combination provides a comprehensive solution for eDiscovery, archival and compliance minimizing the data actually stored.

http://www.kazeon.com/newsroom2/2008-10-07.php

Federated eDiscovery

Common challenges encountered by corporations in managing their enterprise-wide information:

1. Unnecessary data movement and collection before first-pass review by inside and outside counsel – untargeted, over-collection leads to liabilities, high preservation costs, delays in decision making and inability to make crucial early-case assessments

2. Too much data being outsourced to legal service providers for eDiscovery and hosting for analysis/review – corporations do not have control on in-house eDiscovery and costs are driven sky-high

3. Data is brought over the WAN to central locations for review, analysis & processing – too much network bandwidth is consumed and the infrastructure costs are high

The ideal solution will provide a federated architecture that obviates unnecessary data movement, allows in-place analysis and first-pass review, enables early-case assessments before collection, and enables targeted collection of relevant data. The result is not only efficiency and cost reduction, but also accuracy, defensibility and providing control to the corporation.

http://www.kazeon.com/newsroom2/2008-10-20.php

Kazeon’s Agent-less eDiscovery

After reviewing the needs and demands of corporations, Kazeon’s eDiscovery approach leverages the agent-less discovery paradigm and resolves the associated agent-less challenges to deliver a robust eDiscovery capability. With its rapid installation, agent-less discovery’s “time to information” for early assessments is accelerated to ensure corporations meet the shrinking discovery windows. The robust auto-discovery capability identifies and searches of all information repositories on the network to reduce litigation risk, increase litigation defense capabilities, and mitigate relevant material omission. To handle the compute intensive discovery operations, Kazeon has designed and architected a high-performance and scalable clustered platform to meet intensive corporate litigation demands while maintain control and security of the discovery process. With an extensible platform architecture and ERDM compliance, Kazeon’s patented connector engine technology delivers a seamless solution to the agent-less “Live and Locked” file challenge, as well as offers numerous other application discovery capabilities. With is agent-less centric approach and robust technology, Kazeon delivers corporations the best of both worlds to solve today’s eDiscovery challenges.
Kazeon’s Agent-less Benefits
• Rapid Deployment – no agent deployment
• Network control – no user termination
• Ease of Use
• Auto-Discovery of all Sources – highest discovery coverage
• Clustered Architecture for Scalability and High-Performance
• Live and Locked Files discovery

Agent-less Paradigm in eDiscovery

Agent-less Paradigm
The agent-less centric approach does not require the time consuming deployment and installation of an application on all information sources. With agent-less discovery, the eDiscovery solution is deployed in the corporate network, auto-discovers all data sources available, and commences information discovery. The ubiquity of agent-less eDiscovery capability is that it leaves no stone unturned to provide corporations with a holistic information management view, which provides corporations with the must complete and defensible information possible. With the agent-less approach, laptop and desktop users cannot disable the discovery process, as in the agent centric approach. With agent-less search, there are no compatibility issues to threaten the operational health of critical systems. The downside to the agent-less approach is that the discovery process is conducted by the eDiscovery the servers alone, which typically reduces performance and scalability of the eDiscovery process. Another challenge with agent-less approach is the inability to search and preserve “Live and Locked” files due to file system permission settings.

Agent-less Benefits
• Rapid Deployment – no agents deployment
• Auto-discovery of sources
• Network controlled – no user termination capability
Agent-less Challenges
• Performance
• Scalability
• Live and Locked File access