Atlanta, GA (September 28, 2005) – eMag Solutions, a leading electronic discovery company, today announced enhanced capabilities to restore archived data from nearly 100 percent of back-up software packages on the market today. In addition to improving accessibility to data that previously might have been considered unattainable, eMag Solutions’ development of advanced non-native restoration applications has reduced the costs associated with restoration support.

Reasonable access to data contained on back-up tapes or in electronic archives has emerged as a worrisome issue within the business and legal communities. Recently accepted changes to federal rules governing the discovery of electronically stored information – or e-evidence – state that the data being requested must be reasonably accessible and not require significant cost, effort or burden to produce.

“While attempting to clarify the obligations incumbent upon parties for litigation, these accepted changes nevertheless fail to completely impose standards defining ‘reasonable access’ or what costs, efforts or burdens would be considered ‘significant,'” said Brendan Sullivan, president and CEO of eMag Solutions. “Technical innovations in the area of non-native restoration, like those developed by eMag Solutions, help corporations and litigators address both concerns.”

Non-native restoration provides comprehensive access to most types of back-up or storage software because it allows for the restoration of data outside of its originating application. This enables non-native applications to restore records even if the owner of the data cannot find the original software disks or if older versions of software will not operate on today’s modern computers. eMag Solutions constantly updates it libraries of applications, maintaining non-native support for hundreds of back-up software format variations (Networker™, NetBackup™, and Backup Exec™, TSM™, BRMS™, Galaxy™ Backup & Recovery, and ARCserve™) and for various e-mail systems (Exchange™, GroupWise™, Notes/Domino™) – enabling the company to offer restoration support for virtually any software available.

“These advances in electronic discovery have a great impact on practices like mine,” said David Chaumette, a specialist in business litigation with Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P in Houston, Texas. “It is important for lawyers and clients to have services available to help them produce responsive information that will aid the discovery process.”

Additionally, by eliminating the labor-intensive steps inherent in traditional processing, eMag Solutions’ approach achieves more comprehensive results than conventional restoration methods at a fraction of the cost. Previously, restoring archived data through conventional methods was a discrete and time-consuming process. Non-native restoration techniques used by eMag, including de-duplicating multiple copies of files and filtering extraneous information, accomplish these tasks in a single step by producing only relevant data, thus reducing the time and expense associated with the conventional process.

“There is no doubt that electronic data is being stored today at an ever-increasing rate, and that the need to access back-up and archive media will only grow in the near future,” added Sullivan. “We are pleased to offer applications and services that support our clients’ needs to retain data, while providing a process that grants them fast and cost effective access to high standards for electronic discovery.”

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