新浪科技讯 北京时间5月20日上午消息,全球最大安全软件厂商赛门铁克周四宣布,以3.9亿美元收购法律信息管理系统公司 Clearwell System。
赛门铁克表示,收购Clearwell有助于公司处理诉讼、调查和监管问询的文件管理,这些业务有望在2013财年为公司带来收益。这项收购将于于9月底完成。
赛门铁克信息管理高级副总裁迪帕克·莫汉(Deepak Mohan)表示:“随着信息以前所未有的速度增长,客户所面临的最大挑战是保护、管理以及备份信息,同时有能力对这些信息进行有效的分类处理和发掘。Clearwell处在电子数据处理市场的领先地位,收购Clearwell有助于提升赛门铁克在未来对信息、客户和时间的把握能力。”
赛门铁克预计,收购Clearwell将使本财年营收降低。(熠彤)
eDiscovery Leadership
Symantec has entered into an agreement to acquire privately-held Clearwell Systems, Inc., a recognized leader in the eDiscovery market. Clearwell's eDiscovery solution complements and enhances Symantec’s
Enterprise Vault eDiscovery capabilities for a more complete end-to-end eDiscovery solution. Symantec’s acquisition of Clearwell brings together the industry’s leading eDiscovery, archiving and backup offerings to provide customers one of the most comprehensive information management solutions available.
“As information continues to grow at unprecedented rates, the biggest challenge for customers is to protect, manage and backup this information as well as have the ability to categorize and discover it efficiently,” said Deepak Mohan, senior vice president, Information Management Group, Symantec. “The acquisition of Clearwell's market leading electronic discovery solution will further increase Symantec’s ability to
get the right information, to the right people, at the right time, while reducing overall legal review costs and limiting risk.”