“FreeEed and EC2Eed provide fully scalable, fault-tolerant ways for processing data and can cope with any size of e-discovery job, from gigabytes to petabytes,” said Mark Kerzner, President of SHMsoft of Houston.
“The processing engine in FreeEed and EC2Eed is organized by the Hadoop framework which supports data-intensive distributed applications under a free license. I further developed the Hadoop platform using HDFS, HBase/SimpleDB, Tika, Lucene, and Solr, cutting-edge technologies that enable FreeEed and EC2Eed to handle all types of structured, unstructured and semi-structured data in a fast and efficient manner,” Kerzner said.
● FreeEed Release 3.1.4 provides the litigation support/IT professional an option of running Windows to process data on their personal workstations. Each project will create its own Lucene index for later searches. Metadata results are output as a CSV file, while the native files and the extracted text are stored in a zip file(s). The end results can be used for culling and producing native files for legal review. An impending release of FreeEed planned for February 2012 will create PDFs and/or TIF files for loading in your litigation review platform.
● EC2Eed, a premium edition of FreeEed, processes e-discovery on the Amazon cloud. The litigation support or IT professional can log into their AWS account and use EC2Eed as a platform-as-
SHMsoft will provide support and training for both implementations. SHMsoft’
†† FreeEed™ and EC2Eed™ are the registered trademarks of SHMsoft, Inc.
For More Information Contact:
Julie Wade
Director of Business Development
SHMsoft, Inc.
(713) 204-2565
julie.wade@shmsoft.com
