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ZANTAZ Grid-Based Archiving Solution Wins Award

ZANTAZ Inc, a provider of e-communications management solutions for compliance, electronic discovery and storage management, announced that the Digital Safe secure archiving service received a Crossroads A-List Award from Open Systems Advisors (OSA). For 11 years, the Crossroads A-List Awards have identified the best new technology solutions proven to deliver results. This year, OSA concentrated on evaluating comprehensive solutions and services that address today's top business priorities for technology investment, with a particular focus on measurable results.

"The ZANTAZ Digital Safe solution is transforming the way business is conducted today," said Nina Lytton, president and principal analyst of OSA. "It has broken ground in the areas of compliance and litigation readiness and has brought proactive archiving strategies to the forefront of best business practices. We will be seeing a lot more companies taking advantage of Digital Safe's capabilities in the years to come."

OSA has a unique and in-depth process of research and validation. Drawing on in-depth interviews with line-of-business and IT executives, OSA identifies the newly proven solutions and services that are making the strongest contribution to business results for customers right now. Interviews with these customers are key in determining qualifications for success including deployability, strategic value, quick payback and measurable return on investment. In 2004, the Crossroads A-List Awards program elevated its prestige by identifying only 10 companies as can't miss opportunities for technology investment.

"We are honored to be chosen by Open Systems Advisors for this prestigious award, which is based on extensive interviews with our valued customers," said Steve King, president and CEO of ZANTAZ. "This award demonstrates how our innovative Digital Safe service and domain expertise in compliance, data archiving and electronic discovery are helping our customers to meet complex industry regulations and manage associated risks."

ZANTAZ introduced the Digital Safe service, built on an archiving architecture using Grid computing techniques and unique indexing and query algorithms. ZANTAZ' Digital Safe service enable firms to quickly retrieve specific electronic documents or e-mail based on complex search criteria from among billions of archived documents and correspondence, regardless of the length of time stored.

Since the delivery of this architecture, ZANTAZ has introduced a number of complementary, customer-driven hosted applications that further enhance its customers' ability to meet regulations, respond to discovery requests and manage the costs associated with compliance and litigation support. ZANTAZ also responded to market demand for onsite software solutions with ZANTAZ EAS (Exchange Archive Solution), a complementary offering that provides best-of-breed e-mail storage management capabilities as well as compliance and electronic discovery features.