EMC Announces Kazeon Acquisition

Hopkinton, Massachussets-headquartered EMC Corporation has announced the acquisition of software company Kazeon Systems Inc.

Kazeon Systems is an eDiscovery solution provider. The solution performs Early Case Assessments and fine-grained eDiscovery across multiple ESI sources such as email servers, file shares, archives, content repositories, laptops/ desktops and remote offices. Organizations can identify, preserve, collect, process, analyze and review information available to it in the EDRM framework, using Kazeon’s technologies. Since the product is available as an “appliance”, it is possible to achieve all this in the shortest possible time. The company’s major customers are corporations, legal service providers, government entities and law firms.

Kazeon Systems was founded in 2003 by Mr. Sudhakar Muddu who is also the CEO of the company. It board of directors includes representatives from investors such as Redpoint Ventures, Clearstone Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures, Focus Ventures, JK&B Capital and Goldman Sachs. The acquisition has cost EMC USD 150 million, and is expected to close in the third quarter of 2009.

For EMC, Kazeon’s acquisition will mean an addition to its existing portfolio of in-house eDiscovery and litigation-readiness solutions. Kazeon will be integrated into EMC’s Content Management and Archiving division.

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Iomega Launches New NAS

San Diego, California-based Iomega Corporation has launched a new NAS christened “Stor Center Pro ix4-100″, targeted at small business and remote office requirements.

The StorCenter Pro ix4-100 comes in two capacities – 2TB and 4TB built using four drives that are hot-swap SATA II-based. The system can be operated by a web interface with a dashboard that gives a snapshot of its status. The interface frontends an EMC LifeLine software that runs and manages the system. LifeLine is a Linux-based software developed by EMC, the parent company of Iomega. Computers running OSs such as Windows, Linux or Macintosh can access and back-up their files on the ix4-100 NAS, and the product is equally at ease with formats such as FAT32, NTFS, or ext2/ext3.

The ix4-100 comes pre-configured for RAID 5 and can be configured for RAID 10 and JBOD. There are four USB 2.0 ports which can be used to connect printers (for print-sharing jobs) as well as additional storage. The ix4-100 fits in well within the Windows Active Directory structure, so users in the AD get to access it just like any other resource. Read more