The Challenges We Solve
The data archiving industry faces unique challenges with managing explosive data growth caused by new technologies such as chat and collaboration platforms, machine-generated data, and hybrid workforces. Legal and compliance teams are responsible for enforcing regulatory requirements and executing eDiscovery matters. However, the pace of technology innovation has outpaced the data governance market's response, leading to a lack of adequate tooling. The ZNZ Resources Unified Data Optic addresses these challenges by delivering financial legal and compliance departments with a comprehensive solution for preserving, managing, governing, and discovering data generated from new technologies.
The ZNZ Resources Unified Data Optic delivers leading institutions the confidence and assurance to support these critical business objectives by ensuring all data generated from these new technologies is preserved, managed, governed, discoverable, and much more.
Our ZNZ Resources Unified Data Optic addresses challenges such as:
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Eliminate Data Silos: By connecting to and extracting relevant data from chat, collaboration, enterprise content management, and other unstructured data repositories, the ZNZ Resources Unified Data Optic eliminates data silos.
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Mitigate Over-Preservation: Nearly every enterprise incurs excessive storage costs from over-preserving data. With proper identification and classification of enterprise data, the ZNZ Resources Unified Data Optic helps enterprises only preserve what they need. Furthermore, this concurrently addresses data compliance regulations associated with data minimization, such as the GDPR and CCPA.
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Improved Data Quality: Over-preserved data not only continuously increases storage costs but also causes enterprises to incur incremental costs during eDiscovery due to over-collecting and impacts the quality of upstream analytics due to poor data quality of irrelevant business records. The ZNZ Resources Unified Data Optic cleans up your unstructured data repositories, automates retention and disposition, simplifies eDiscovery collections, and improves overall data quality.
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Identification and Mitigation of Sensitive Data: Eliminating data no longer to be preserved for business, compliance, or legal use cases will improve data security posture. Furthermore, the Ai Data Detect component of the ZNZ Resources Unified Data Optic has built-in data profiles to identify objects containing PII, PHI, and PCI with built-in actions to move or archive sensitive data.
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Data Integrity: Data preserved in the archive is written to immutable storage, protecting the integrity of the objects throughout their lifecycle.
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Unified Search and Retrieval: A single repository for eDiscovery and compliance teams to perform enterprise-wide search and discovery for legal matters, compliance investigations, FOIA requests, policy violations, etc.
Our Strategic Positioning
In the data archiving industry, effective data governance and archiving are crucial for ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements. Unfortunately, many legal and compliance departments today rely on disparate technologies that are loosely connected with API frameworks, leading to inefficiencies, inaccuracies, increased costs, and risk of compliance and legal violations.
The ZNZ Resources Unified Data Optic is strategically positioned to meet this need by providing a unified solution for data governance and compliant archiving. Our proven technology has enabled leading financial institutions to confidently address their data governance functions, capturing all electronic communications and unstructured data required for long-term compliance preservation and eDiscovery.
Our purpose-built technology ensures that data is placed in an information management system that protects its integrity, effectuates retention and disposition, and provides our clients with powerful and fast enterprise-wide search capabilities when needed. By centralizing data in a unified repository, our clients can simplify and standardize the execution of their information governance programs, implementing retention, disposition, storage optimization, legal hold, and other policies across all their data.
These benefits also extend to legal and compliance teams when performing eDiscovery. They can quickly perform Early Case Assessment (ECA) across all in-scope data from one location, allowing them to easily identify relevant data and reduce the data set for ingestion into right-side technologies.
In summary, the ZNZ Resources Unified Data Optic plays a critical role in information management and eDiscovery by ensuring that relevant data is preserved, easily accessible, and protected against destruction or alteration. As a potential acquirer, you will have a strategically positioned solution that addresses a critical market challenge and provides significant value to its clients.
Total Data Lifecycle
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Data Archiving
Data archiving is no longer simply about storing and accessing unstructured data. Data growth continues to skyrocket, storage capacity is running out, compliance demands are growing, and budgets can’t keep up with the big data deluge. As data proliferates in both its bulk and value, it becomes more at risk commensurately. Where once the tech echo chamber championed the Cloud, then BlockChain, and Machine Learning - the market has exploded with enthusiasm for responsible human-augmented Ai, and it has also matured to fully recognize and value premium data management and security - both of which are the foundation of our ZNZ Resources Unified Data Optic.
Data Growth During Economic Turmoil
As we navigate in this unpredictable recession, we are buoyed by the fact that data compliance, as well as big data itself, will increase in every enterprise, every institution, and every government who are relentlessly creating massive amounts of data that needs to be identified, archived, secured, managed, and utilized. Regardless of the economy, ZNZ Resources will be needed more than ever for the data solutions, human-augmented Ai, and services we provide better than anyone else. Our Advanced Archive prowess is of strategic importance and value to all our clients.
PremCloud Platform
Building on over a decade of PremCloud Resources’ experience architecting, implementing, and managing enterprise information archival, eDiscovery, human-augmented Ai, and information governance solutions for their global customers, our newly developed market-leading Unified Data Optic has us positioned for exponential growth. Owning our Intellectual Property is key to ZNZ Resources' strategic position, creation of opportunities, and equity appreciation.
Unified Data Optic
The ZNZ Resources Unified Data Optic has been purpose-built to enable leading financial institutions and corporate legal departments with the solutions to automate the capture, preservation, governance, and discovery across all sources of communication, chat, collaboration, and unstructured data. The ZNZ Resources Unified Data Optic ensures legal, and compliance teams adhere to regulatory data retention requirements, automating data disposition to mitigate risks and costs of over-preservation, preserving data under active litigation or investigation, and serves as the single source of truth to facilitate rapid collections at the onset of legal eDiscovery matters.
One of the key features of ZNZ Resources is its automated data discovery capabilities. This allows organizations to quickly and easily identify where their data is located and what type of data it is without manual processes. This helps organizations to stay compliant with regulations and avoid data breaches.
ZNZ Resources' Unified Data Optic also includes sensitive data classification capabilities, which can automatically classify data based on its level of sensitivity. This allows organizations to more easily identify and protect sensitive data, such as personal information, financial data, and intellectual property.
The solution also enables end-to-end data lineage, which tracks the movement of data from its origin to its final destination. It clearly explains how data is used and where it flows. This helps organizations improve data quality and traceability and to minimize the risk of data breaches.
Overall, ZNZ Resources aims to help organizations manage and govern their data across different environments, automate data discovery, classification, and lineage, and make data valuable and trustworthy for the top global law firms.
When organizations merge their fragmented data sources into a single central view, data comes to life. Organizations that succeed at unifying their data can better plan, budget, forecast, build, and enhance their products and services.
ZNZ Resources' Unified Data Optic is a data governance solution that enables organizations to create a unified map of their data, automate and manage metadata from hybrid sources, classify data using built-in and custom classifiers and sensitivity labels, label sensitive data consistently across different systems, easily integrate all data catalogs and systems, improve data quality, and mitigate risks. This helps organizations better understand and manage their data and minimize the risk of data breaches.
By providing a unified map of data assets, a glossary of business and technical search terms, insights into the management of sensitive data, and in-place data sharing in near real-time and easy provisioning of data access, ZNZ Resources' Unified Data Optic allows organizations to improve data governance.
Information Governance
As data engineers, you know that information governance is critical for managing an organization's information assets. It involves the management of data throughout its lifecycle, including creation, storage, use, and disposal, while ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements and protecting sensitive information. Here are some key components of information governance:
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Data Governance: This involves managing the data, data quality, data lineage, data privacy, and data security to ensure that data is managed correctly.
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Compliance: This component ensures that an organization complies with legal and regulatory requirements, such as GDPR or HIPAA.
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Information Management: This component manages the information lifecycle, ensuring it's accurate, complete, and accessible.
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Information Security: Protecting sensitive information from unauthorized access or disclosure is an essential part of information governance.
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Risk Management: This component is responsible for identifying and mitigating risks related to information.
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Privacy: Protecting individuals' personal information and respecting their privacy rights is crucial.
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Information Governance Cooperation: It's essential to have an organization-wide effort involving different departments, such as legal, IT, and compliance, to ensure that all aspects of information management are addressed.
Data Connect
To adequately address data retention, disposition, and eDiscovery compliance requirements, enterprises must have the ability to connect to and capture content generated from chat and collaboration platforms.
Our agnostic Data Connect framework enables enterprises to capture, transform, mobilize,
and continuously deliver content from chat and collaboration channels and deliver it to any
output destination.
ZNZ Resources' Data Connect is the most versatile data connectivity platform in the market that provides a dynamic ecosystem for connecting and capturing data generated from an organization’s various data sources. Our robust framework allows you to connect and capture all your data providing Total Data Accessibility.
ZNZ Resources' Data Connect has an expansive and agnostic plugin architecture with an API paradigm that can be tailored to suit any need. This provides access to all the data sources needed to power digital transformation.
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Eliminate silos with secure, scalable, and resilient integration of all data sources. With several out-of-the-box connectors, including Teams, Zoom, Slack, and more, you can easily collect data from any source you need and send it to any target destination.
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Easy-to-configure automation schedules. Enterprise users will love how easily they can create customized outputs without compromising platform compatibility.
Ai Data Detect
Ai Data Detect is the premier component of the ZNZ Resources Unified Data Optic. Ai Data Detect provides rapid visibility and understanding of your enormous data stores. By shining a light on dark data and allowing users to search, discover, and govern that data, Ai Data Detect addresses the operational burdens of data compliance obligations and transforms dark data into a competitive advantage.
Ai Data Detect can clean unstructured and dark data from virtually any repository. With Ai Data Detect, we deliver a purpose-built solution to interrogate petabyte-scale unstructured data volumes to identify sensitive data, including several PII, PHI, and PCI types. Not only will this enable enterprises to identify potential dark data risks, but the built-in workflows facilitate the movement of data to secure repositories, preservation in an archive, upstream review platforms, and much more.
→ Data Privacy
→ Data Remediation
→ Data Storage Optimization
→ Data Identity and Profiling
Large amounts of aging unstructured data take up a lot of storage space, increasing the cost of storage, maintenance, support, and resources. More stored data means more care and help from your IT resources. Law firms already need help to contain high overhead costs, and massive data growth only adds to the problem.
Storage costs are just part of the picture. Even when employees remember that a particular file exists and tries to retrieve it, they may have to search for it across multiple storage devices. This negatively impacts data utilization and client service.
Legacy Data Stores
Accountable information management starts with assessing your entire data estate. The Ai Data Detect analysis engine will deliver rapid actionable insights into all unstructured data stores. The initial data cleansing analysis will allow you to realize immediate storage cost savings by removing data held within the computing environment beyond its defined retention schedule [as defined by legal, regulatory, or business records retention schedules].
Specific data stores can be further analyzed against the Ai Data Detect profiling engine, with dedicated libraries to identify sensitive data types [i.e., Personally Identifiable Information PII] and instances of inherent bias in the data stores. This analysis will identify any historical bias in the data stores and provide the opportunity to take accountability for the corrective action.
Ai Data Detect
Ai Data Detect provides enterprises with the insights to streamline data governance initiatives, mitigate information risk, and lower costs associated with over-preserving data. Our Ai Data Detect analysis engine will identify data ownership, utilization, duplicate detection, and the sensitivity of the data.
With Ai Data Detect, we deliver a purpose-built solution to interrogate petabyte-scale unstructured and structured data volumes to identify sensitive data, including several PII, PHI, and PCI types. Ai Data Detect enables enterprises to identify potential dark data risks. The built-in workflows facilitate the movement of data to secure repositories, preservation in an archive, upstream review platforms, and much more. The policies for classification and tagging and the output actions are entirely customizable, allowing you to meet your client’s specific needs or compliance mandates.
Ai Data Detect Calculator
Data storage has become a crucial aspect of most organizations, and it is important to effectively manage it to optimize costs. In this report, we will analyze the impact of implementing the Ai Data Detect and Advanced Archive solutions from PremCloud on an organization's data storage usage and cost reductions.
Cost savings on Storage and Search
Establishing effective policies and frameworks in conjunction with Ai Data Detect’s auto-classification capabilities enable organizations to defensibly delete large amounts of irrelevant data and retain critical data in a searchable repository for compliance and business purposes. This allows organizations to reduce storage costs by consolidating storage with less data and preserving essential data in a compressed and encrypted archive for search.
Ai Data Detect classification adds metadata attributes to an organization’s data. Search improves because you can search data by topic, keywords, and content. Organizations can delete useless documents by continuously classifying all data, run faster searches on targeted data volumes, and eliminate costly, time-consuming ad-hoc searches.
Data Security and Confidentiality
After classifying all data by security and value, organizations can defensibly dispose of data that represents an unnecessary risk to the firm. Organizations can lower the risk of lawsuits and fines by identifying sensitive data and moving it from insecure storage to a secure, archived storage repository.
In the event of an investigation or audit, organizations can quickly retrieve data in response to discovery requests with confidence they know all of their data has been identified and classified. In addition, organizations can prove they have the tools and systems to address sensitive data compliantly.
Table: Estimated Before and After Reduction per Tiered and Overall Storage Cost Savings
Assumptions
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The organization's estimated total data storage usage after 5 years is 34,260 terabytes, which is split into SSD, SATA, SAS, and Cloud storage tiers.
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The estimated storage costs for each tier are $21,428,901 for SSD, $21,978,360 for SATA, $26,862,440 for SAS, and $2,747,295 for Cloud storage.
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The organization will leverage the Ai Data Detect and Advanced Archive solutions from PremCloud to reduce its overall storage footprint and costs at the end of 5 years.
Calculation Context
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The ‘Before Optimization’ columns show the estimated storage usage and cost for each tier before leveraging the Ai Data Detect and Advanced Archive solutions from PremCloud.
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The ‘After Optimization’ columns show the estimated storage usage and cost for each tier after leveraging the solutions.
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The ‘Cost Savings’ column shows the estimated cost savings achieved by implementing the solutions.
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The ‘Cost Reduction’ column shows the percentage reduction in cost for each tier and overall.
By leveraging the Proprietary Purpose-Built Data Optic solutions from PremCloud, the organization will be able to reduce its overall estimated data storage usage by 16,899 terabytes, from 34,260 terabytes to 17,361 terabytes. This equates to an overall estimated reduction in potential costs of up to 59%, resulting in an overall reduction savings of $46,639,468 at the end of 5 years, from $73,016,996 to $33,496,409. The organization will benefit significantly from cost savings achieved.
Advanced Archive
The ZNZ Resources Advanced Archive is built on over two decades of experience as an industry leader providing enterprise information archiving, management, eDiscovery, and compliance solutions for litigation, regulatory, and GDPR requirements. Our Advanced Archive provides comprehensive unified data archiving - and we do it better than anyone.
The critical need for data archiving is becoming increasingly apparent to everyone. What is relevant data to organizations today is limited to what they can process effectively with the speed and agility of their current computing prowess. Ai is starting to make meaningful and productive use of the massive amounts of data we are archiving for organizations for utilization and compliance.
Our Unified Data Optic targets, unifies, organizes, and moves data to a securely managed advanced archive for long-term preservation, unified search, eDiscovery, and compression for maximum cost savings. The advanced archive consists of data that must be retained for regulatory compliance and litigation support, along with older data that is still valuable and needed for future reference. Our advanced data archives are indexed and have search capabilities to locate and retrieve all files quickly.
There are four components to creating maximum data value: the aggregation of the data, the archiving of the data, the accessible search of the data, and the utilization of the data. With our Advanced Archive, we focus our market-leading development on the first three critical components while remaining the go-to solution for integration with other providers who help to activate the unlimited utilization and potential of their customers’ archived data.
Meticulous Data Aggregation
Our Advanced Archive begins with precisely connecting and aggregating the targeted data. With our Advanced Archive, we skillfully provide the essential tools to capture, migrate, and clean all structured, unstructured, and dark data.
Our Advanced Archive not only has the finest tools to capture and migrate all data, but it is uniquely prepared to detect, correct, or remove all of the incomplete, incorrect, inaccurate, or irrelevant parts of the data [also called ROT - redundant, obsolete, and trivial data]. The inconsistencies detected or removed may have been initially caused by user entry errors or corruption in transmission or storage. Still, our Advanced Archive ensures that the data we archive and unify for our clients is both essential and error-proof.
Immutable Storage
In our ZNZ Resources Advanced Archive, immutable storage ensures that metadata and all data evidence haven’t been altered. Securing immutable evidence through metadata roots back to the advent of video and still cameras that note the day’s date in the frame. We are surrounded by metadata and data evidence from a whole universe of devices, software, social media, etc.
ZNZ Resources' immutable data archive technology is used strategically to secure critical digital evidence, enforce legal holds, provide a verifiable chain of custody, and protect data from cyber-attacks.
Hybrid Hosting
With ZNZ Resources' Advanced Archive, we have eliminated the disadvantage of choosing between on-premise or hosted data archiving by presenting a more nimble paradigm for an organization’s data location. Organizations' worldwide data storage needs can no longer be satisfied by the limitation of simply choosing between a hosted or on-premise solution. There is a need for a more adaptable hosting alternative, and that solution is in our ZNZ Resources Data Cloud.
Our advanced Advanced Archive Hosting perspective speaks directly to the strategic versatility of our hosting alternatives for the Advanced Archive and the appropriate Advanced Archive Managed Services we provide organizations [especially our multinational customers]. Whether it is in our customer’s own data center, a data center we provide and manage for them, or a fully hosted presence in one of our Advanced Archive Data Centers - we can now offer organizations the most advantageous residence of their data based on a number of criteria specific to the countries or regions they operate.
Data Compliance
Every multinational enterprise is bound to have a variety of native domicile conditions and data custody laws [such as GDPR] to deal with: sovereignty, dominion, residency, accessibility, laws, restrictions, custody, compliance, costs, risk, intellectual resources, security, safety, and manageability undoubtedly differ in each worldwide location. If our customer is an international enterprise, they will require different hosting environments for their archived data. For example, suppose they are based in the EU. In that case, they may want to host their data in their own data center and have us provide the appropriate managed services for our Advanced Archive solutions, while for their operations in Hong Kong, they may want us to host it for them. And if they operate in Canada, they may want to host it in their own leased data center environment but have us fully manage it. And on and on ...
The key is that our clients truly own their data - while they can rely on us for the security, management, and administrative optic that our market-leading Advanced Archive-based solutions provide for all instances and locations.
Compliant Journaling as a Service
Our Advanced Archive is the industry leader in Office 365 Integration. Our ‘first-of-its-kind’ bi-directional data integration mitigates risk while delivering evolved control, Journaling as a Service, governance, and increased value to utilizing the entire Microsoft Suite.
Microsoft has minimized the use case for operational archiving by increasing its mailbox capacity limits to 100 GB [E5]. However, Microsoft has a notable gap in its native archive capabilities because they do not offer compliant journal archiving. To compensate for this shortcoming, Microsoft has provided ‘workarounds’ to their customers [such as perpetual legal holds], or they must continue to journal to a third-party archive solution.
A Microsoft 365 or Office 365 mailbox can’t be used as a journaling mailbox. Suppose you’re running a hybrid deployment between on-premises Exchange and Microsoft 365 or Office 365. In that case, you can only designate on-premises journaling mailboxes for your Microsoft 365 or Office 365. You must also deliver journaled messages to an on-premises email archiving system or a third-party email archiving service.
Journaling mailboxes contain sensitive information, so you need secure access to them. Messages in the journaling mailbox may be part of legal proceedings or subject to regulatory requirements.
Beyond the challenge of ongoing journal capture for customers that have gone from on-premises Exchange to Exchange Online, a common challenge they must overcome is what to do with their historical journal data. Our Journaling as a Service addresses this exact challenge. ZNZ Resources' Journaling as a Service [JaaS] provides a repository for migrating legacy journals and ongoing journal capture in our Azure native Advanced Archive. This creates a single source of truth for journaled communications.
Journaling as a Service provides a backend component for M365 to facilitate compliant journal archiving in a Microsoft Azure tenant.
Along with the obvious risk mitigation, recent SEC fines of over $1.8 billion to financial institutions punctuate the need for a compliant, immutable, and secure data governance process.
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Search, analyze, and engage your Microsoft journal through Microsoft Purview eDiscovery.
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Comply with data sovereignty regulations by geo-dispersing journal feeds across multiple Azure tenants - while maintaining centralized access.
Our Journaling as a Service [JaaS] provides clients with a compliant, highly secure, and immutable archive repository to unify, encrypt, preserve, secure, access, and utilize their most critical data while ensuring they retain complete ownership and governance of their communications.
“Lloyds Bank is a global leader in the financial space and strives to be at the apex of new technology. Working with BFSI Data, Inc. we were able to drastically reduce our legacy data footprint, modernize our compliant archiving practice, and integrate the technologies and communication systems we rely on daily.”
Information Technology Team
Lloyds Bank plc
The Advanced Archive capabilities allow all regulated, litigated, or business-critical data, communications, or documents to be preserved in a highly compliant enterprise-scale data archiving platform. This can be deployed to any infrastructure or cloud platform, including hybrid deployment, and provides a robust suite of end-user access and search tools and an advanced e-discovery application for rapid case-driven enterprise search or litigation support. The Advanced Archive is integrated directly with Data Connect to allow any structured or unstructured data to be ingested, preserved, and made available. It also works seamlessly with Ai Data Detect to allow data analyzed by Ai Data Detect to be ingested automatically or have any data held in The Advanced Archive to be profiled by Ai Data Detect for advanced insight. All of the data held in The Advanced Archive can be placed under powerful automated lifecycle policies.
Adaptive On-Premise and Cloud Hosting
UnBiasIt’s Unified Data Optic has eliminated the disadvantage of having to choose between an on-premise or cloud-hosted archive by presenting a more nimble paradigm for the location of data and the solutions we offer. The days of relying on legacy data centers are over. You can deploy your Archive across multiple geographically distributed sites and public, private, and hybrid cloud environments.
Powerful Enterprise Search
Enterprise-wide search across 100,000+ custodians can quickly be culled and refined using several filtering and search options. Boolean expressions can be built in our Advanced Search Builder, which provides a user-friendly interface that allows users to add a virtually unlimited amount of search terms and eDiscovery operators, automatically generating a historically complex search query in perfect boolean syntax. eDiscovery professionals can structure advanced boolean queries to include proximity searches, addressing, wildcards, and standard [content, date range, and to and from] criteria.
eDiscovery
ZNZ Resources eDiscovery automates the collection, preservation, and culling of corporate data for eDiscovery; while providing immediate access to corporate email, files, IM, social media, and more across all geographic locations for early case assessment.
In addition to reducing discovery costs, ZNZ Resources eDiscovery also reduces the time it takes to access email and any archived data source to bolster the information governance team’s productivity and ability to quickly assess the merits of a case before going into a full-blown legal process. 27 of the world’s top 200 law firms and legal businesses trust ZNZ Resources to begin their eDiscovery collections process.
Early Case Assessment
ZNZ Resources' Unified Advanced Archive provides a single source of truth for rapid discovery and early case assessment across all archived data types. Powerful tagging and search capabilities make it easy to cull through massive amounts of data to identify relevant data and risks before sending data upstream to review platforms.
ZNZ Resources' discovery capabilities make it intuitive once relevant data is identified to be exported or sent directly to various review and production platforms without delay.
Flexible Deployment
The ZNZ Resources Unified Data Optic has eliminated the disadvantage of choosing between on-premise and hosted data by presenting a more nimble deployment paradigm for our Unified Data Optic.
Our Unified Data Optic allows the location of data and deployment of its solutions to be completely customizable. This includes any combination of on-premise, hybrid, or hosted in public or private clouds. All data is managed through a single unified optic [where data location and residency are also controlled].
Archiving For Maximum Utilization
The Advanced Archive changes how archiving has traditionally been viewed. Instead of as a long-term storage system to phase data out, ZNZ Resources deploys its Unified Data Optic and Advanced Archive technologies to centralize the management of all of an organization’s data for maximum value, including; storage cost savings, analytics, eDiscovery ECA, eDiscovery review and production, adhering to compliance, Increased productivity, mitigating security risk and exposure, etc