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Desktop Legal Hold, the First New Software From Zantaz Since its Acquisition by Autonomy

Zantaz, an Autonomy company in the archiving, eDiscovery and
Proactive Information Risk Management (IRM) markets, announced Desktop Legal Hold, the industry’s first
comprehensive solution that enables corporate legal and IT departments
to remotely enforce legal hold across desktops and laptops. Unlike
other systems, Desktop Legal Hold does not require a continuous network
connection for discovery. Information and metadata are preserved
locally and continuously in real-time. The solution locks down the
original files in place and can collect them when an Internet
connection is established. Applying advanced conceptual and keyword
legal search, all information relevant to legal matters is preserved,
maintaining the audit trail and forensic credibility while dramatically
reducing the legal risk of fines and sanctions associated with
non-compliance to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure for
eDiscovery.

In the report, Warning: Combine Process Methodology and Technology
to Execute Litigation Holds (Forrester Research, Inc., July 2007) Barry
Murphy writes: "The US courts show no mercy to
organizations that claim ignorance about the processes or technology to
preserve potentially relevant information. In the court’s eyes, there
is simply no excuse for being unable to find information – whether it
be emails, instant messages, voicemails, desktop files, or even ERP
data – when requested."

An industry first, Desktop Legal Hold addresses the invincible gap
that exists in electronic discovery between information stored on
networks and laptops due to the lack of standardization, continuous
offline status and multiple formats and locations. Current solutions
are inherently flawed as they require user intervention and compliance
which runs the risk of spoliation; or imaging of hard drives, snapshots
of folders and remote spidering of desktops – all of which capture
irrelevant and personal data resulting in over retention, network
overload and the potential violation of user privacy laws.

"The ability of companies to effectively comply
with preservation obligations involved in e-Discovery has been the most
pressing issue for corporate counsel, as can be seen by the numbers of
spoliation allegations over the last few years,"
said Tom Allman,
retired general counsel of BASF Corporation and leading proponent of
the 2006 Federal Amendments for E-Discovery. "There
can be immeasurable value in this type of solution given the mobility
of today’s workforce and the rising volume of information that users
create that never hits the corporate network. The ability to capture,
hold and produce this data securely and automatically can significantly
reduce the enormous cost and risk organizations face today when dealing
with e-discovery."

Built on Autonomy’s award-winning Intelligent Data Operating Layer
(IDOL), Desktop Legal Hold provides automatic and on-going preservation
of information using the full array of keyword and Boolean rules,
metadata and conceptual search to uniquely cull down data volumes by
intelligently identifying all types of information relevant to legal
hold policies. Desktop Legal Hold:

Proactively
monitors all information that comes across the screen or is stored on
the hard drive including PDFs, emails, and instant messages (without
the need for a network connection) and locks it down in place
preserving data so that it can’t be deleted or changed,
Collects
all data from files including versioning, hidden changes, recycle bin
and deleted items and retrieves information from the "empty" space on
hard drives,
Automatically overcomes spoliation, obfuscation, misclassification and non-classification of important data,
Delivers advanced technology for remote forensics, data loss prevention, and original file preservation at the sector level, and
Automatically integrates with market leading EDD, review and production solutions.

"Laptops have become the Achilles’ heel of businesses today when it comes to electronic discovery," said Mike Lynch, CEO of Autonomy. "We’re
taking a dramatically new and different approach to desktop legal hold,
helping companies reduce the soaring costs and risks associated with
FRCP compliance. We are the only company to take a holistic view of the
market by offering the full set of solutions for use by both IT and
Legal departments across the entire Electronic Discovery Reference
Model (EDRM)."

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