Kazeon Announces Alliance With Quantum to Solve Enterprise eDiscovery Challenges

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA--(Marketwire - October 7, 2008) - Kazeon Systems, Inc., the leading provider of intelligent eDiscovery and Information Management solutions, today 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. Kazeon can perform eDiscovery on backup and archive data residing on a Quantum DXi in addition to storing the resulting repository on the DXi system. The combination provides a comprehensive solution for eDiscovery, archival and compliance by minimizing the data actually stored.

Through the combined solution, customers will be able to take advantage of the industry's most complete Information Management software and will be able to make early-case assessments, gain more control of their in-house eDiscovery processes, and enforce compliance and retention policies for all data stored in online, offline, active and archive repositories, including network shares, email and other backup/archive repositories. Customers can avail all of these capabilities while being able to dramatically cut down their eDiscovery and compliance costs through Kazeon's highly scalable, high performing, Information Management software, and Quantum's de-duplication and efficient storage capabilities.

"No matter where in an online backup or archive environment the data resides, Kazeon can discover, collect, preserve, legal hold, process, analyze and take eDiscovery workflow action on it," said Mark Eastman, Senior Director of Solutions Marketing at Quantum. "Together with Kazeon, Quantum can offer a very important data de-duplication and replication capability for our customers who need to be able to discover and act on ESI matters such as legal hold, migration and archival in a completely auditable and defensible manner, regardless of whether they are a small company with a single repository or an international company with many remote offices. The alliance between Kazeon and Quantum will provide one of the best backup, archiving and eDiscovery offerings on the market today."

"Quantum's de-duplication and efficient storage technology provides an excellent repository for eDiscovery applications such as legal hold, preservation and collection, and for compliance applications that archive information and retain records," said Karthik Kannan, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Kazeon. "Joint customers will also benefit from the Data Management capabilities brought by Kazeon's product, and can better manage their storage, archival and reporting processes. We are very excited to address these markets jointly with Quantum and expect tremendous traction in the enterprise customer base."

Kazeon's software is uniquely able to extend the reach of customers' Information Management and litigation support practices from the data center to remote offices as well as roaming laptops by being able to identify relevant and material data as well as applying a legal hold, KazHold™, on it. Further, the software enables customers to implement automated rules and policies for archival and retention of online and backup data. Kazeon is unique in being able to provide both eDiscovery and data management capabilities. Quantum customers can now benefit from these data management capabilities, which include windows/server consolidation, PST consolidation, one-time migration and continuous archival.

With Quantum's DXi disk backup systems featuring de-duplication and replication, users can reduce the capacity required to store application data by 90 percent or more compared to conventional disk and replicate large datasets between sites over lower bandwidth networks. The resulting benefits include accelerated performance, increased data recovery points, reduced power and cooling requirements, simplified management, and lower overall costs.

About Kazeon

Kazeon revolutionizes the way companies perform Information Management and eDiscovery by using the Information Server software to intelligently discover, search & index, classify and act on all electronically stored information. Kazeon provides a full spectrum of Information Management solutions, including proactive and reactive eDiscovery, information security and privacy, records management, governance, risk & compliance, and data management. The Kazeon Information Server software automates key eDiscovery functions -- identification, collection, preservation, processing, analysis and review for corporations, service providers, and law firms. Kazeon provides unique in-place legal analysis, review and workflow automation technology as well as legal hold for retaining data in original state. Kazeon has been recognized by various industry forums, including Gartner's eDiscovery MarketScope where Kazeon was rated 'Positive' and the 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, 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.

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