Entries categorized under “Archiving”

Carl Frappaolo, AIIM Vice President, Market Intelligence says "Unstructured information drives numerous business processes..." The logical option here would be to deploy a business process management suite (BPMS) of tools. Step one is to identify what departments, project groups and individuals are involved in the business processes. Step two; identify the information that results from those individuals, groups and departments. Step three, once the business process is mapped to the information you simply associate it with a retention management product and policies. (read more)

Although the data elements are small, they are numerous. For example, a medium sized company with 3000 users using a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) system would generate 24000 calls if each person received one call per hour throughout an 8 hour work day. In two years time that would equal at least 18 million call records and requires companies implement automated solutions to capture and manage these call records. Moreover, those automated systems must scale well beyond 18 million records on a daily basis. Working with carrier grade companies, those that serve the general public, Suntech experienced very high data retention requirements early in the development cycle. (read more)

InfiniVault presents itself as a network filer to server operating systems and uses a write-once file system so InfiniVault needs to theoretically manage an infinite number of files due to its infinite capacity capabilities. To explain how InfiniVault does this, both ProStor Systems' CEO, Steve Georgis, and CTO, Randy Kerns, explained why the number of files in most customer environments rarely becomes a compelling issue. Georgis says that ProStor Systems guarantees it will support 20 million files at the bare-minimum specification. While 100 million files should not be a problem, ProStor has not yet tested InfiniVault to verify it can reach that number. (read more)

This situation peaked my interest because it was an email archiving product for gmail. Specifically, the application is an end user archiving product called g-archiver. The product works by accessing a users gmail.com mailbox account and copying all their email to a local device. In order to copy the email from gmail.com the product requires that a user input their username and password. (Note: Here is the URL to download the product - www.brothersoft.com/g-archiver-58027.html) (read more)

Infinite. That's the number of files that the file system on ProStor Systems' InfiniVault archiving appliance can theoretically support. The problem with InfiniVault supporting an infinite number of files is how does that work under real-world conditions and how does anyone verify that number in order to have some level of assurance that it holds up? In ProStor Systems case, verifying its claim is more important than in the case of most other disk vendors since its disk-based InfiniVault also supports infinite storage capacity. (read more)

Autonomy/Zantaz, Microsoft/Fortiva and Google/Postini are three SaaS based archiving solutions you should evaluate if you are considering hosted email archiving and eDiscovery for Microsoft Exchange. Since Microsoft/Fortiva does not support Lotus Notes Domino, you should limit your research to Autonomy and Google if you also require Lotus Notes Domino support. Autonomy's Zantaz was founded on the premise of SaaS archiving for Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes Domino, whereas Google/Postini started offering it in 2006. Google acquired Postini in 2007 and added significant support and data center services to support their growing Enterprise customer base. (read more)

Fortiva identifies security and flexible search as two key elements in the product line. Security is a critical component in any Software as a Servie (SaaS) offering. When all the data is stored off site with another company, encryption is your last bastion of hope against would be thieves, privacy violations, etc. (read more)

Fortiva would have been a better option for Dell (NYSE:DELL), had Fortiva been local to the Austin area. According to Praising Gaw, VP of Marketing at Fortiva, they maintain a good business relationship with Microsoft as the sole provider for Microsoft Business Productivity Infrastructure Online Services for Enterprises. Since Dell also values a good relationship with Microsoft, why didn't Dell Computer Corporation nurture the Fortiva relationship? One obvious answer is there weren't any vested interests in Fortiva, by Dell Computer Corporation or the Dell family. (read more)

Considering competitive forces from Google, Autonomy and a fleeting partnership with Iron Mountain, it was in Michael Dell's best interest to save his investment and reel in MessageOne. Moreover, with all the storage activity going on at Dell, the acquisition could propel the MessageOne services to equal footing in the enterprise with Google, making the $12 annual fee for MessageOne a bargain for Dell related technologies. (read more)

Steven: The global storage market is currently a $45 billion a year industry and it is anticipated to grow to $50 billion a year by 2010 with archived storage forecast to increase from $9 billion in 2007 to $23 billion in 2010. Of the data that is currently stored to disk, 80% of that data is fixed content data that is rarely accessed and can be preserved in archives. We offer companies a third tier of storage that looks and acts like disk, has the properties of tape, and uses policy based software to manage data retention and compliance. Companies are looking very closely at the benefits of the technology. Plasmon archive solutions with UDO meet long term retention requirements at a cost businesses need. (read more)

Right now we are at the inflection point in companies where archiving is a board room issue and companies are looking for cost-effective means to keep their data accessible and secure. While there is software out there that does archiving, Plasmon offers a solution that archives and manages long term retention of data via policy. So if you want to make an archive environment look and act like disk but have tape's lower acquisition, power costs and longevity, you would end up with the unique capabilities found in Plasmon UDO (Ultra Density Optical) archive solutions. (read more)

LegalTech has been an explosion of services and technologies.  There are three floors of software, hardware and service vendors.  There are so many vendors you wouldn't think the market could support them all in the next 12 - 24 months. ... (read more)

If Huron approaches a client about "eDiscovery process improvements" without any product offering it typically falls on deaf ears. However fixed priced eDiscovery is sure to generate a lot of buzz and listeners. If you are buying into V3locity, Huron's next step is to deploy Autonomy/ZANTAZ into your environment as your intelligent preservation and collection system. While this is a win-win for both Huron and Autonomy, it may turn out to be a life saver for Autonomy. (read more)

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Sun (NASDAQ:JAVA). If Microsoft and Sun were collaborating on a charity picnic this time last year, it would have been a shock. Now these companies are coming together to provide a combined software and hardware solution and... (read more)

I always credit Microsoft with putting together a great developer network and supporting partners. MSDN is one of the many Microsoft successes that should concern Autonomy. Autonomy must evaluate Microsoft's developer network focus as they continue to charge clients for upgrades, training, etc with respect to Zantaz/AltaVista and Autonomy IDOL. Microsoft's broader services and development focus is verified by Jeff Raikes quote in InfoWorld "I can simply say that part of what we will look at ... will be to marry the strengths we have with our software-plus-services model with what FAST is doing." (read more)

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) made a bid for Fast Search and Transfer (OSE:FAST) this morning, the announcement can be found on FASTs Stock Exchange Announcements website.Where all of this gets a bit confusing is during 2003, when Overture acquired FAST's web search... (read more)

Jerome interviews DataDomain and NEC regarding their SATA products to learn how their system provide health checkups with little-to-no administrative intervention.  Jerome says "As SATA disk drives become more integral to how companies store data, self-healing storage systems can help... (read more)

Catch Jerome talking about upcoming services revenue in the growing classification and governance marketplace.  Jerome helps the VAR and Channel community by tailoring his writing to the business and the technical issues.  Many classifications vendors can help with electronic discovery... (read more)

Keep up to date with Jerome's key publications; last month on the 28th Jerome wrote how value added resellers and professional services firms can leverage VTLs when selling services like recovery management, eDiscovery and email archiving.Read More at SearchStorageChannel.comCommVault:Simpana and... (read more)

| To assist in guiding the future technical direction of the SNIA | Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) Technical Working Group (TWG) | we are conducting a short survey and your valuable opinion is very | important to us.| | Please... (read more)

Jerome takes a plunge into the eDiscovery pool and finds the water is a little chilling.  email storage management and regulatory retention for financial services was the starting point for email archiving.  Since 2002 many companies have learned that when... (read more)