ZyLAB Supports for XML Storage Format

ZyLAB, provider of e-discovery and information management solutions, announced that its latest podcast titled, XML for Sustainable and Comprehensive Information Management is now available.

This podcast provides insight into how the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) acts as a countermeasure for the exponential growth of enterprise information and should be considered as a ‘best practice’ for e-discovery and investigations. Specifically, the digital sustainability and scalability of XML are the key drivers for ZyLAB’s use of XML in all of its systems.

XML is an open, timeless, non-proprietary format created to structure, store and transport information in any type of file storage (disc, network server, Cloud). With the exponential growth of enterprise information and discoverable data, the storage options presented by XML are significant. When the organization’s file storage hardware reaches its capacity, an additional XML repository is simply put in parallel without disrupting operations. In addition, XML provides an extremely flexible schema for meta data management, much more than traditional relational databases.

“Even a thousand years from now, individuals can open an XML file and read the content without special software,” said Johannes C. Scholtes, Chief Strategy Officer for ZyLAB. “Since a database isn’t required, organizations are spared the costs of database licenses, maintenance and database management, as well as the hassle of repeated file conversions as new versions are released and older ones are no longer supported.”

In the podcast, Scholtes describes the benefits of ZyLAB’s XML-based systems for any data that is write- once-read many, such as e-discovery and investigations.

Benefits include:

• Access to unaltered, native files. An XML archive maintains the integrity of data and allows the user to link back to the 100% intact, unaltered native file.
• Disclosure among multiple parties. The XML format is flexible to the demands of the disclosure process and removes the need for endless data conversions.
• Fast and comprehensive search. ZyLAB’s award winning search engine in combination with the XML files enable users to enrich data with flexible meta information schemes that can be searched, mined and analyzed for better insight into relevance.

The ZyLAB Information Management Platform archives all of a client’s data spanning e-mail, electronically stored information (ESI), SharePoint, database content, and scanned paper, in an open XML archive. Each practice-specific ZyLAB system provides tools to manage the content of the archive, from basic searching, to EDRM procedures, to SOX-compliant records management.

Currently the company, headquartered in McLean, Virginia, and Amsterdam, the Netherlands, has sold 1.7 million user licenses through more than 9,000 installations.