New Federal District Ruling Increases Pressure on Companies to Provide Fast and Comprehensive eDiscovery Search

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA--(Marketwire - May 21, 2008) - Kazeon, a leading provider of intelligent eDiscovery solutions, announced today that they are available to discuss the wide reaching eDiscovery implications resulting from the latest legal precedent set by a federal district judge last week.

In Disability Rights Council v. Washington Metropolitan Transit Authority, 242 F.R.D. 139 (D.D.C. 2007., Judge John M. Facciola's holding emphatically illustrates a growing expectation among the judiciary that parties should leverage search technology, namely concept searching, to search through voluminous amounts of electronically stored information (ESI) in order to quickly identify responsive data for preservation and production by trial participants. The dicta of his ruling, puts the onus on law firms and the companies they represent to better understand and prepare for the processing of ESI.

"Kazeon's powerful rules-based classification engine enables organizations to cut through massive volumes of data and apply taxonomies that allow us to facilitate the concept searching process with unprecedented cost effectiveness. Given the fact that we can accomplish so much with so little, it behooves corporate IT organizations and their outside counsel to take us up on data assessment surveys," said Richard E. Davis, Managing Director, Litigation Logistics, LLC (redavis@litlogic.com).

"In eDiscovery everyone understands there is a need to search data, but the fundamental disconnect is around how to search in a way that satisfies the growing expectations of leading jurists and the FRCP while generating ROI beyond litigation. Search methodologies are some of the most misunderstood activities in eDiscovery; this ruling highlights the fact that this confusion needs to be cleared up quickly," said Steve d'Alencon, vice president of product marketing for Kazeon. "Kazeon is a leader in offering companies complete in-house enterprise products and solutions that can help with meeting Judge Facciola's overall search expectations while providing enterprise data mapping, enterprise search, forensic enterprise collection and instantaneous litigation holds and functionality that encompass virtually every aspect of the EDRM."

The Kazeon Information Server has been specifically designed to enable companies to significantly shorten the time it takes to forensically identify, collect, preserve, process and analyze ESI (files and eMail) from various sources within the company, including individual desktops and laptops, branch office servers and data center resources (e.g. networked storage, email servers and archives), thereby curtailing unnecessary eDiscovery costs. Kazeon delivers industry-leading price/performance for in-house processing of ESI in preparation for reactive and proactive eDiscovery matters as low as $4.30 per Gigabyte. Also, Kazeon delivers the industry's highest performance for full-content indexing up to 17 Terabytes per day. Kazeon provides unique Single Step Collection™ technology that allows extremely rapid, targeted collections of ESI for litigation hold and early case assessment, helping to minimize over-collection while avoiding spoliation or loss of good faith by the court. Kazeon's Information Access Platform software for topology mapping, custodian inventory, data classification and search ensures that companies can reduce legal risk and minimize collection and preservation expense. In addition, companies can reduce exposure to risk, fines and sanctions and enable post-litigation utility of the work product.

About Kazeon

Kazeon revolutionizes the way companies perform eDiscovery by using the Kazeon Information Access Platform software to intelligently search, classify and act on electronically stored information. Kazeon delivers industry-leading price/performance for in-house processing of ESI in preparation for eDiscovery matters as low as $4.30 per Gigabyte. Also, Kazeon delivers the industry's highest performance for full-content indexing up to 17 Terabytes per day. 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 in-house eDiscovery functions from identification through processing, review and analysis. Through the development of unique indexing, tagging, and automation technology, Kazeon has established partnerships with leading companies, including Fujitsu Siemens, Google, Network Appliance, Oracle and Symantec. Kazeon's award-winning products are helping an increasing number of companies to significantly reduce the risk, duration and cost of eDiscovery matters while increasing visibility and control over electronically stored information. For more information, visit www.kazeon.com or call +1-877-KAZEON1.

Contact Information: Steve d'Alencon Kazeon Systems, Inc. 650.641.8801 steve@kazeon.com Greg Funaro Lois Paul & Partners 781.782.5896 greg_funaro@lpp.com