[March 15, 2006] eMag Announces Availability of New EDD Application; MM/FileFinder Enables Corporations and Law Firms to Significantly Reduce the Cost and Scope of an E-Discovery Project Tweet ATLANTA --(Business Wire)-- March 15, 2006 -- eMag Solutions, a leading international electronic discovery company, today announced the commercial availability of its new electronic data discovery (EDD) application, MediaMerge/FileFinder (MM/FileFinder). Through the use of this application, corporations and law firms can significantly reduce the scope of e-discovery projects, thus saving time and ultimately reducing litigation costs. Companies are currently required to maintain tape pools over varying data retention periods. Often times, these tape pools exist in heterogeneous environments consisting of multiple backup formats, as well as retired backup systems. Maintaining licenses for disparate backup systems or file-level catalog data can not only be an expensive proposition, but when a discovery request is made, producing responsive data from hundreds or thousands of tapes is equal to finding the proverbial needle in the haystack. Through the use of MM/FileFinder, companies are able to interrogate and adopt management of the media catalogs for software backup systems such as Networker(TM), NetBackup(TM), ARCserve(TM), Data Protector(TM) and more. Once the tape pool has been catalogued, companies are able to centrally manage and track all active or retired tapes. When a discovery request is made, file-level scans produce the file names that exist on each tape, along with the server info and the backup session, to determine the relevance of each tape and thus significantly reduces the scope of the original request. "As the e-discovery demands placed on companies start to mature, and tools and discovery knowledge improve, project size and scope are rightly becoming scrutinized," said Brendan Sullivan, president of eMag Solutions. "We are building applications that help companies better respond to growing discovery demands, and our more intelligent approach to determining the ideal preservation pool can lead to dramatic reductions in project scope and e-discovery costs." About eMag Solutions Based in Atlanta with European offices in the United Kingdom, eMag Solutions is a leading electronic discovery company specializing in accessing data from a variety of archived sources, helping organizations reduce business risk. Founded in 1964 as Datatape Corporation, the company is privately held. For more information about eMag Solutions, call 800-364-9838, email [email protected] or visit www.emaglink.com. eMag Solutions is owned by Patriarch Partners LLC, ("Patriarch") an investment fund based in New York and Charlotte, North Carolina. Patriarch provides portfolio management services to 8 leveraged funds and a private equity fund consisting of a diverse company portfolio including credit facilities in respect to approximately $4.5 billion of assets including equity ownership positions (majority and minority) in more than 60 companies. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]