EMC has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held eDiscovery software provider Kazeon Systems.
The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2009, subject to customary closing conditions and is not expected to have a material impact to revenue or EPS for the full fiscal year 2009. Upon completion of the acquisition, Kazeon will become part of EMC’s content management and archiving division, the company said.
EMC said, the combined company will be able to offer in-house eDiscovery and litigation readiness offerings as part of the EMC SourceOne family for integrated but modular eDiscovery, archiving and compliance.
Kozeon allows organisations to identify, preserve, collect, process, analyse, and review information in accordance with a EDRM (Electronic Discovery Reference Model) framework. It handles Electronically Stored Information (ESI) that resides anywhere in the enterprise environment, including content on laptops, desktops, content management repositories, Microsoft SharePoint and Exchange, Lotus Domino, email archives and file shares. The Kazeon offering is available as an appliance, enabling Early Case Assessment (ECA), legal hold management, analytics, and review.
Andrew Cohen, vice president and general manager of eDiscovery business at EMC, said: “It no longer makes sense to collect an over-sized set of content by reactively gathering physical media, such as hard drives and backup tapes. Organisations can save significant money by intelligently indexing and finding just the relevant information, and then collecting it in forensically sound and secure ways, all in-house.
“With the addition of Kazeon to the EMC SourceOne family, we will be able to offer our customers tremendous functionality, saving them money, reducing risk, avoiding unnecessary legal fines and enabling them to deploy a true information governance and eDiscovery strategy.”
