KAZEON UPGRADES eDISCOVERY

Kazeon has extended its Information Server eDiscovery application, announcing improved collection, procession and analysis with legal hold from laptops and desktops.
The company says that version 3.1 of Information Server IS1200-ECS introduces a new in-place legal hold, KazHold, and a new agent-less product for in-place analysis of and collection from laptops/desktops.
It says that these new products and functionality are key enhancements which will help organisations streamline collection, analysis and processing for proactive and reactive eDiscovery processes, ensuring that all relevant and necessary information for any litigation related activity is discovered, and that no data is spoiled

Reduce litigation risk, cut costs with proactive eDiscovery

Getting a Handle on eDiscovery“Discovery” is the legal process that all companies facing lawsuits are required to go through in order to produce relevant documents for the court to consider. Generally, any company with $1B in revenue faces multiple legal matters. They may be spurious, or legitimate—but for good-sized companies, they’re inevitable. What’s notable is that those companies spend between $2.5 million and $4 million a year on legal discovery of electronic files alone.
What’s driving those costs? Part of it is an increase in the number of lawsuits. Part of it are the new regulations that enterprises have to comply with in the wake of Enron, WorldCom, and Tyco. But probably the most important factor driving the increase in legal discovery costs is the rapid growth of electronic data that is generated and stored by companies as part of their ongoing business operations. While technology has made our lives at work easier and more productive, it has also contributed to the proliferation of electronically stored information (ESI). To make things more complicated, as much as 90% of all that information is unstructured and unmanaged. Most companies do not have well defined information management policies in place to manage the explosive growth of this data. This is a recipe that can lead to huge litigation costs later for companies when they have to reactively dig through mountains of information to provide timely responses for eDiscovery requests.

Storage Prepares for Court

The legal and storage worlds will come together in New York City this week, as vendors unveil a plethora of products around content monitoring, CDP, and software as a service (SaaS) at the LegalTech show.

As CIOs and IT managers struggle with the storage impact of the amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) and an ever more litigious corporate landscape, vendors are eyeing new opportunities.