ZL Technologies Announces Expansion Plans for Japan

Japan Country Manager Appointed To Manage Growth

SAN JOSE, CA – November 9, 2010 – ZL Technologies, Inc., a leading provider in e-mail and file archiving software for compliance, E-Discovery, records and storage management in large enterprises, today announced new growth initiatives for the Japanese market. ZL has doubled its staff in Japan, moved to a new facility in Tokyo, and appointed Yutaka Shimowada as ZL’s Japanese Country Manager to continue its expansion in the Japanese market.

With increasing regulatory compliance and legal requirements governing electronic content, the archiving and E-Discovery market is growing at a rapid pace worldwide. A recent IDC study estimates the E-Discovery market in Japan alone will triple in size within the next three years.

Addressing this demand and reflecting its long term commitment to the Japanese market, ZL now enters its tenth year of operation in Japan. The ZL Unified Archive® has been successfully implemented at some of the largest Japanese enterprises. In addition, ZL has forged strategic partnerships with large systems integrators in Japan in order to better serve its enterprise customers.

“Building on our success to date, both in Japan and in the U.S., we have recently accelerated our investment in the Japanese marketplace,” says Kon Leong, CEO of ZL Technologies. “Beyond increases in staffing and facilities, we are particularly pleased to announce the appointment of a country manager of Shimowada’s caliber and credentials.”

Shimowada brings over two decades of experience in successfully introducing innovative technologies from the U.S. into the Japanese marketplace. Prior to joining ZL, Shimowada spent 23 years with Macnica Networks, a leading IT distributor in Japan, where he was most recently Vice President of New Product Strategy and Promotion. His responsibilities included managing the launch of over 70 U.S. high tech products and companies, including Neoteris (now Juniper), Packeteer (now BlueCoat) and Barracuda Networks into the Japanese marketplace. Shimowada also has experience as a senior partner at Entrepia, a leading Japan venture capital firm, where he identified promising technologies for investment opportunities.

“While the need for archiving and management of e-mail and files keeps rising in Japan, the solution requires considerable engineering,” says Shimowada. “After much research, I concluded that ZL is the only product that satisfies the requirements of large Japanese enterprises, by using GRID™ architecture to scale up critical functions such as fast complex searches across massive amounts of Japanese content. I now look forward to expanding ZL’s success into many more market sectors and delivery formats, such as enabling cloud service providers to offer archiving.”

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