Kazeon Receives "Positive" Rating in Leading Analyst Firm's eDiscovery MarketScope Report

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA--(Marketwire - January 13, 2009) - Kazeon Systems, Inc., a leading provider of intelligent eDiscovery solutions, today announced that Gartner has rated Kazeon "Positive" in Gartner, Inc.'s annual "MarketScope E-Discovery Software Product Vendors, 2008." Kazeon's end-to-end eDiscovery solution has received a high ranking from Gartner's eDiscovery MarketScope, further proving Kazeon's leadership in the quickly growing eDiscovery industry.

Kazeon is one of the few pure-play, end-to-end eDiscovery software vendors in the market rated for its capabilities in all of the key eDiscovery categories, namely:

--  Identification & Collection
--  Review & Analytics
--  Litigation Hold
    

According to the report, "Enterprises purchasing e-discovery software can reduce the costs of litigation by improving their control over unstructured content, and semi-structured content, most notably e-mail. Also, they can cut costs and risks by taking control of litigation hold, litigation-hold tracking, file collection, file processing and legal review instead of outsourcing these functions."

Customers continue to look for cost-effective eDiscovery solutions to manage their increasing litigation requirements, especially in these challenging economic times. Kazeon is well positioned to provide corporations the perfect solution to address these diametrically opposing requirements. Kazeon delivers in-house eDiscovery solutions to address the challenges of early-case assessments (ECA), legal hold management, and fast & efficient analysis and review. The Kazeon software offers the widest reach for various content in active or archive repositories such as file servers, laptops/desktops, email servers (e.g., MS Exchange, Lotus Domino), email & file archives (e.g., Symantec Enterprise Vault) and Enterprise Content Management systems (e.g., SharePoint).

"We believe, the Gartner rating, combined with the tremendous success we have achieved in 2008, solidifies our leadership position in the eDiscovery market," said Karthik Kannan, Kazeon's VP of Marketing. "We are extending our momentum by forging ahead with many more advancements in the areas of legal hold, analysis and review, and expect corporations, law firms and legal service providers to continue adopting us for end-to-end in-house eDiscovery needs."

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, using KazHold™, 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.

About the MarketScope

The MarketScope is copyrighted 2008 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The MarketScope is an evaluation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the MarketScope, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest rating. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.