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Enhanced Document Retrieval, Conversion and Indexing Capabilities Benefit Law Users With Improved Control and Access to Legal Discovery Documents: DataSynapse and Applied Discovery, a leading provider of Applied Discovery electronic discovery services to the nation's top law firms and corporations, today announced the enterprise-wide deployment of GridServer, application service virtualization software that virtualizes and distributes application workload and executes in a guaranteed, scalable manner over existing computing resources. DataSynapse GridServer addresses compute- and data-intensive applications – dramatically improving application performance and response times for the typically immense e-discovery projects managed by Applied Discovery. These enhancements further establish Applied Discovery as one of the few e-discovery providers that can process large amounts of data for legal, corporate and public sector clients. Within six months of implementation, DataSynapse enabled Applied Discovery to move to a highly scalable infrastructure, enabling improved performance of the company’s award-winning online applications. With GridServer, Applied Discovery processes such as uploading, monitoring and converting various file types are greatly enhanced by virtualizing and intelligently distributing application workloads across shared system resources. This results in delivery of business-critical services and information to clients at a faster, more efficient pace. “Applied Discovery is continually looking for ways to improve our technology architecture to deliver the quality, control and performance required by our clients for their e-discovery projects,” said Grant Peterson, vice president of product development for the LexisNexis Litigation Services group. “In this instance, we quickly identified DataSynapse as the clear leader in application virtualization technology, and our clients have benefited from our performance gains since implementing GridServer software.” GridServer helps Applied Discovery expedite the transfer, uploading and conversion of more than 7 million discovery documents a day – minimizing time and capacity spent on these processes. Providing automated conversion of files to a standard PDF format, GridServer now enables Applied Discovery to more quickly convert and upload data from disparate media sources including hard copies, hard drives, CDs and DVDs immediately for maximum throughput and IT resource utilization. DataSynapse’s offering also allows Applied Discovery to streamline its complex document processing pipeline, which parallelizes tasks over 250 blade servers. Applied Discovery chose GridServer over other offerings based on its superior functionality, which satisfies rigorous technical requirements including job prioritization, scalability, SLA management, redundancy and maturity in supporting multiple platforms. With DataSynapse technology, Applied Discovery plans to move toward a service-oriented architecture (SOA) model for future deployments. “Applied Discovery joins the growing ranks of DataSynapse clients who are leveraging virtualization technology to address bottlenecks associated with unstructured data transformation,” said Peter Lee, CEO of DataSynapse. “GridServer enables firms to optimize the process to provide quick turn-around and premium service to their clients.”