eMag Solutions and EMC Partner to Provide Enhanced eDiscovery Services Onsite or Via the Cloud
Partnership reduces eDiscovery costs from legacy and active data sources

[PRESS RELEASE] Atlanta, GA – March 2011 - eMag Solutions, LLC, a leading international eDiscovery and data management company, today announced a partnership with EMC Corporation, the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, that enables clients to leverage EMC’s SourceOne eDiscovery – Kazeon to collect, identify, preserve, and process active and legacy archive data through a single platform – either  onsite or in the cloud.

This new partnership  extends eMag’s service offerings to include ‘behind the firewall’ services including Early Case Assessment (ECA) from all data sources, such as file shares, desktops, laptops, Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint applications, IBM Lotus Domino and EMC Documentum. With the ever-increasing size of data collections, organizations require new and better technology to efficiently manage eDiscovery processing, respond to regulatory investigations, and address compliance requests. “We are very excited about the benefits we will be able to provide to our clients with the inclusion of this product suite into our product and service offering” says Jim Burns the COO of eMag Solutions. “This partnership enables clients to confidently address early litigation review with options to utilize either eMag’s secure facilities or onsite at the client offices. Combining eMag’s data extraction expertise and EMC’s eDiscovery solutions will save global organizations time and money.”

“The partnership between eMag and EMC  raises the bar for e-Discovery services, by providing the freedom of access to best-in-class early case assessment, legal hold and other valuable services,” said Chris McLaughlin, VP of Channel Sales and Alliances for EMC “Our SourceOne solutions are in response to legal and IT’s requirements to rapidly respond to today's information governance challenges; working with valued partners like eMag extends our reach in bringing SourceOne to new audiences so we’re excited about the partnership.”

About eMag Solutions, LLC
eMag Solutions, LLC is an international Patriarch Partners company headquartered in Atlanta, GA with additional data service centers in New York City, Washington DC, and the United Kingdom. For more than 40 years, eMag Solutions has been helping organizations reduce business risk while preserving the attractive economics of storing critical business information offline. eMag Solutions delivers comprehensive data management and electronic discovery services, specializing in non-native collection and restoration of disparate email, user files, and data from a variety of offline sources and reconstitution and ingestion into online email archive, document management, and legal review applications to proactively manage enterprise content, as well as prepare for litigation, regulatory, and compliance matters. For more information, visit www.emagsolutions.com or call 800-364-9838 or +44 (0)2920 739940 outside of the United States.

When people ask me about my company and how we're doing, given that "backup tapes are dead", I simply reply that they are much more prevalent than you realize. I think most people assume that older, outdated companies must be the only ones using backup tapes these days. Wrong, my friend, so wrong.

As you may know, Gmail was inaccessible to quite a few of its users last week, causing panic and worries that the end times had arrived. Google was able to right itself by using...drumroll please.......Backup Tapes! Yes, you read that right, Google, purveyor of all things new and shiny, used tried-and-true backup tapes to restore its users Gmail accounts. The moral of this story? Backup tapes are alive and well and employed by Google.

To read an article about Google and it's backup tapes, click here.

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E-discovery and ECM leader offers Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) for network-attached storage (NAS) devices

PRESS RELEASE: ATLANTA – May 25, 2010 – eMag Solutions, LLC, a global provider of enterprise content management (ECM) and electronic discovery solutions, announces its enhanced Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) capabilities for law firms and corporations. NDMP is a method of backing up stand-alone NAS (network-attached storage) devices that otherwise would not allow for the installation of a backup agent because of their closed architecture. NDMP is not a backup format but a way for the network appliance to communicate with the backup server and deliver the data to the tape/disk storage. This type of restoration is common for large corporations and technical companies that host terabytes of data on an NAS storage device.

A standard method of restoring an NDMP backup requires the presence of the original or similar NAS device, an appropriate version of the backup software and the corresponding NDMP agent. It is the only reliable way to restore the data to the state as it existed on the original appliance. This typically involves considerable expense on the corporation’s part to acquire the necessary hardware and backup software, including the NDMP agents. eMag's approach to NDMP deals directly with the backup stream created by those NAS devices (for example, NDMP from NetApp and EMC), thus eliminating much of these costs.  The nuances of working with each type are thoroughly discussed and coordinated with the client and comprehensive planning is custom tailored to their needs. eMag Solutions is constantly developing its current procedures to bring the most efficient and cost-effective NDMP services to the company's valued clients.

About eMag Solutions
eMag Solutions, LLC is an international Patriarch Partners company headquartered in Atlanta, GA with additional data service centers in New York City and the United Kingdom. eMag Solutions, LLC offers a wide spectrum of professional data services that enables its worldwide client base rapid access to data that has become hidden, forgotten, unreachable, unknown or corrupted. eMag achieves this through use of its unparalleled knowledge of backup systems and data structures built during more than 40 years in the data storage industry. eMag Solutions is proud to be the first and ONLY e-Discovery provider in the US to achieve ISO27001 certification around information management and security for its data processing facilities. For more information, visit www.emagsolutions.com or call 800-364-9838 or +44 (0)2920 739940 outside of the United States.

About Patriarch Partners
Patriarch Partners, LLC is a private equity and investment firm headquartered in New York City. Founded by Lynn Tilton in 2000, Ms. Tilton serves as Chief Executive Officer and sole Principal of Patriarch Partners, LLC and its affiliated entities. Patriarch provides innovative financial solutions, strategic direction and operational expertise to companies undergoing periods of operational, industrial and economic change. Funds affiliated with Patriarch manage assets in excess of $7 billion and include majority and minority ownership positions in more than 70 companies. For more information, please visit www.patriarchpartners.com.

W. Lawrence Wescott looks to address what companies should expect when handling backup tapes during the eDiscovery process in his article Shedding Light on Backup Tape E-Discovery.

Items addressed in the article include:

• A look at the original intent of backups -- Disaster Recovery
• A look at the common use of backups -- Data History
• Backup tapes subject to eDiscovery (duty to preserve, storage & tape costs, data collecting, culling, review, retention and spoliation)
  
• Accessible or not?
• Strategies to minimize risk

This article is a great overview of backup tapes and the role they play in eDiscovery and definitely worth reading and sharing.

If you would like more information about backup tapes (the ins-&-outs, the different types of media, restoration times, etc), visit eMag's resources page.  We have links, whitepapers, you name it, everything you ever wanted to know (and some things you didn't) about backup tapes.