The transaction is expected to close in Q3 2009 and Kazeon will become a part of EMC’s content management and archiving division. The acquisition is likely to strengthen EMC’s SourceOne portfolio - an integrated family of solutions for eDiscovery, archiving and compliance.

EMC will be able to offer end-to-end, in-house eDiscovery and litigation readiness solutions as part of the EMC SourceOne family for integrated but modular eDiscovery, archiving and compliance.

Kazeon solutions allow professionals to identify, preserve, collect, process, analyse and review information in accordance with the widely accepted EDRM (Electronic Discovery Reference Model) framework. Its solutions also have the ability to handle Electronically Stored Information (ESI) from laptops, desktops, content management repositories, Microsoft SharePoint and Exchange, Lotus Domino, email archives and file shares.

In addition, Kazeon’s legal hold management capability ensures no erroneous deletion of data and its metadata. It is also capable of performing fine-grained analytics, including concept-based search and analysis, and offering a collaborative review platform for distributed reviewers.

Andrew Cohen, vice president and general manager of EMC’s eDiscovery business, said: “As legal, regulatory, and governance requirements continue to become more stringent and expensive, it is now mandatory for customers to have a solid in-house strategy for information governance and eDiscovery.

“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.

"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.”

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