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In July Bob Lentz became Digital Reef’s CEO, while Digital Reef's founder Steve Aker took over product innovation. This week they’ve added Larry D’Angelo as the Vice President of Sales.

Having served as the vice president of business operations for Makana Solutions, Larry D’Angleo brings more than twenty years of experience. From sales to marketing and business development, Mr. D’Angelo has worked with Autotask, IMB and Revenio. Digital Reef is confident that with such experience and skill, Mr. D’Angelo will help them reach the company’s 2010 goals of delivering smarter information management to the enterprise.

Digital Reef (news, site), best known for its scalable information management, governance and discovery platform, has been busy establishing partnerships in the eDiscovery, early case assessment (ECA) and electronic data discovery (EDD) space with Anacomp, Boston Litigation Solutions and Reliable.

Digital Reef thrives on partnerships with other companies who offer services that can integrate with theirs so that customers can best utilize out of the box connectivity to more enterprise content management systems. With a skilled executive leadership in place, building upon partnerships and collaboration, Digital Reef seems poised to head into a productive 2010.

According to a recent survey conducted by The Cowen Group, a search firm specializing in staffing litigation and practice Support and eDiscovery professionals, Early Case Assessment (ECA), while being implemented by roughly 75 percent of the participants surveyed, is still only being used by those in the legal sector. Non-legal corporations accounted for only 37 percent of ECA use.

Digital Reef (news, site), fresh of their announcement of a new CEO, has announced a new partnership with Anacomp.

A provider of litigation support and businesses process services and solutions, Anacomp has formed a technology alliance with Digital Reef in an effort to offer advanced document connection, selection, reduction and analysis, as well as early case assessment. Their services aim to reduce eDiscovery costs, as well as to accelerate litigation processes and mitigate risks.

eDiscovery and storage solutions provider Digital Reef (news, site) has announced its new president and CEO.

Bob Lentz, an established veteran of the technology industry will lend his experience with growing innovative startups in highly competitive market segments in an effort to oversee and market Digital Reef's success. Effective immediately, Mr. Lentz will assume the presidency and role of CEO allowing Digital Reef's founder Steve Akers the time to spend on product innovation, while assuming the role of CTO.

Lentz sees data management as a priority, saying that "unstructured content represents both the lion’s share of enterprise data and the most difficult data management challenge.” Digital Reef offers a data management platform, offering many eDiscovery solutions that can be used across a wide variety of platforms and environments. Additional solutions include data discovery for risk mitigation, compliance and automated data discovery and classification tools that enable storage reclamation.

Over the past few months, Digital Reef launched the Digital Reef Partner Program, which makes unstructured data management more accessible to companies that can complement their services with Digital Reef technology solutions. With FAST, Mimosa and EntropySoft among the featured partners, customers will be looking to Mr. Lentz to provide the leadership necessary to promote and support forthcoming partnerships.

Here at CMSWire, we look forward to seeing what Mr. Lentz will bring to Digital Reef's expansive data management solutions.

Maybe it just seems like it, but there is sneaking suspicion that you can’t set foot outside the door at the moment without tripping over another buddying-up between Digital Reef (news, site) and a new friend.

This time it's with EntropySoft (news, site) the enterprise content integration specialist. The purpose? To provide more out-of-the-box connectivity to more enterprise content management systems.

Just recently we commented on the partnership between Digital Reef and FAST, the search technology and Microsoft subsidiary. It seemed to go so well, that Digital Reef (news, site) has announced another partnership, this time with Mimosa.

Mimosa (news, site) works to implement extensive eDiscovery solutions within the enterprise. Additionally, their Nearpoint archiving solution just joined the ranks of visionary, according to Gartner.

Reefs by nature are a nutrient-sharing organism; relying on other habitats for an exchange of nitrogen and vegetation. Perhaps coral reefs were the inspiration for Digital Reef's new Partner Program.

The Digital Reef Partner Program makes unstructured data management more accessible to companies that can complement their services with Digital Reef technology solutions. This might seem like a win-win situation for Digital Reef (news, site), who after all, secure the customer base of companies while demonstrating their expertise with managing unstructured data.

But it can also benefit those in the enterprise who desperately seek the technology and scalability of a single platform. As well, they benefit from search, analytics, automatic data classification and data management functionalities, which can only make their workflows and document management processes run that much more efficiently.

Managing unstructured data is a daunting task. Good thing Digital Reef is here to help. Today, they emerge from stealth mode after two years of developing their unstructured data management platform, achieving early customer traction under the name of Auraria Networks.

Digital Reef plans to manage unstructured and semi-structured data, that is data not already managed by database management systems, by helping large enterprises deal with key business issues that cannot be properly addressed using traditional solutions. Issues such as eDiscovery, data risk mitigation, knowledge reuse and strategic storage initiatives often require a great degree of scalability and performance. The longer left unchecked, the volume of data expands and thus costs companies both time and money and increases risk.

Digital Reef hopes not only that their new approach will garner interest, but that the current economic climate will help them capitalize on the importance of managing unstructured data as a means of saving money.