E-discovery vendor Zantaz acquires Singlecast
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(InfoWorld) - Zantaz, a maker of storage archiving technology, is acquiring Singlecast Technologies for its data classification and policy management tools. Zantaz, in Pleasanton, California, is acquiring the technology assets of Singlecast, based in New York City and Atlanta, and will retain most of the company's employees. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Zantaz specializes in technology that provides e-discovery capabilities to an enterprise. Companies that have archival data on tape or disk storage systems need to be able to retrieve that data in a timely fashion to comply with some state and federal statutes. They may also have to get to the data if the company is involved in a lawsuit and parties to the suit seek information, a process called discovery. A change in U.S. rules for criminal procedures that took effect Dec. 1 places new requirements on companies to accommodate e-discovery requests. Zantaz and Singlecast have partnered for two years through a technology licensing agreement to provide compliance review tools for Zantaz Enterprise Archive Solution and, more recently, a Zantaz product called First Archive. Zantaz now plans to incorporate Singlecast's technologies across its entire content archiving product line. The proliferation of e-mail places new demands on companies to archive e-mails in the event they are needed in e-discovery, said Brian Babineau, an analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), a market research company. Zantaz technology classifies e-mail for storage purposes at the moment an e-mail is created, making them easier to find in the archive when needed. ESG estimates that over the next four years, e-mail archives will grow by a compound annual rate of 68 percent.
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The software giant makes a small acquisition to bolster its moves for unified communications.
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P2P telly gets arty Bablegum, the P2P internet TV platform which is set to go head to head with Joost this summer, has signed up a raft of new independent content providers.â¦
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Dish Network owner will buy the developer of the innovative SlingBox TV-streaming device.
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Grokster has partnered with &#39;P2P radio&#39; company Mercora to offer what it claims is &quot;the Internet&#39;s largest, legal and licensed peer-to-peer music search and discovery service&quot;.
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Eats Zantaz Inc Cambridge-based software firm Autonomy is buying US document storage and retrieval company Zantaz Inc.â¦
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The Associated Press on Tuesday said it has reached an agreement with Voxant Inc. to distribute a selection of its news stories, video and photos to blogs and other Web sites through Voxant's advertising-supported syndication network.
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Sling Media, developer of the innovative Slingbox TV-streaming device, is set to be acquired by EchoStar Communications, which operates the Dish Network direct-to-home satellite TV service in the U.S., the companies said late Monday.
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InfoWorld - Autonomy's ZANTAZ division said Wednesday its e-discovery software can now find information stored in virtual environments.
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(InfoWorld) - Autonomy Corp.Â is acquiring Zantaz, a provider of e-discovery and content archiving software, for $375 million in cash, the companies announced Tuesday. Autonomy, of Cambridge, England, will operate Zantaz, of Pleasanton, California, as a division of Autonomy. Zantaz CEO Steve King will retain his position at the Zantaz division. The publicly traded Autonomy posted net profit of $48 million on revenue of $250 million in 2006, whileÂ privately held ZantazÂ reported $106 million in revenue, according to a May 2007 IDC research report. E-discovery is an emerging marketÂ within the field of data storage, archiving, and recovery. Organizations are increasingly being called upon to produce copies of electronic documents, such as e-mail, voice mail, and instant messages, to respond to lawsuits or government investigations. IDC reports the global market for e-discovery software and hosted services grew to $477 million in 2006, an increase of 47 percent from 2005's $330 million. The revenue split between software and hosted services is about 60-40 IDC reports. The combination of Autonomy and Zantaz will bring together consolidated archiving, e-discovery, analytics, and real-time policy management services into one system, the companies stated in a news release. Autonomy says the acquisition will produce cost savings of $25 million a year and be accretive to earnings in six months. The deal is expected to close by August, assuming shareholder and regulatory approvals are granted.
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Skyrider, developer of a new peer-to-peer (P2P) platform, today  announced an innovative in-video advertising solution offering  advertisers and content owners a means to distribute, track and monetize  content on P2P networks.
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Epygi Technologies, manufacturer of SIP-based IP PBX phone systems for  small business, today introduced a new multifunction PSTN/VoIP gateway  that not only multiplies the number of PSTN lines available to a  business' network via ISDN, but delivers voicemail and auto attendant  operation.
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IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 6  /PRNewswire/ -- Telmar Network Technology, Inc., a leading provider of reliable, high-quality, and cost-effective solutions for network maintenance, expansion and asset management, announced today that they have completed the acquisition of Somera Communications.
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In this new post on Zak Greant's blog, he takes a look at some comments made about the eZ partner program he helped to develop and his responses to clear up some issues.   In a blog post yesterday, CMS expert and Optarian Seth Gottlieb wonders about the eZ partner program.   Gottlieb made comments about it seeming to be a good system, but not quite understanding how it would work when applied. Zak comes back with comments on the reasoning behind the program, how it works to benefit the partner, and how they see those partners, both in giving credit and their involvement with the projects.   For more information on the eZ partner program, check out this page on the eZ website.
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One of the largest distributors of independent films online said Thursday it had struck a deal with the DVR maker to offer thousands of titles from its catalog to subscribers.
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Discovery Communications has purchased Web site HowStuffWorks for $250 million, adding a key element to the Silver Spring cable television network's growing digital presence, the company announced yesterday.
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(InfoWorld) - Business Objects will acquire Nsite Software, which develops a software-as-a-service delivery platform, in a move to offer more of its own products over the Internet, the companies announced. Business Objects said it will integrateÂ some of Nsite's SaaS technologiesÂ into its own product line, allowing it to release more of itsÂ business intelligence softwareÂ in the form of services next year. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The move follows growing interest in SaaS, which requires end users to have only an Internet connection and little or no software installed locally. The goal is to reduce the cost of deploying and maintaining applications. Nsite, based in Sunnyvale, California, sells a product called On Demand Enterprise, used by companies to develop applications that can be accessed over the Web through a browser. It also offers a library of programs for delivering over the Internet, called Application Center, which includes software for tasks such as channel management, quotes and sales. And it offers tools for building and customizing SaaS applications. Its product use AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and Extensible Markup Language) technologies to deliver information faster, and can connect to Salesforce.com's CRM (customer resource management) applications via Web service interfaces. Business Objects launched it first on-demand offering in April with CrystalReports.com, for creating and sharing business reports over the Web through a browser. Many of the 7,000 customers are signed up for the free service for 10 or fewer seats, but Business Objects hopes to grow larger, paid installations. Business Objects, which will take on 27,000 current Nsite customers, said it will continue to sell and support Nsite's products.