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News Analysis
LegalTech Roundup: New E-Mail Archive Software And More
A pile of new e-discovery products and services were announced around the LegalTech show this week. E-discovery is now a core concern for IT operations because of the importance of electronically stored information (ESI) in today's lawsuits, and it's the responsibility of IT to find and store this information. We summarize five products here, including the launch of a new e-mail archive product with an e-discovery focus, Kroll Ontrack's Ontrack Compass.
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- Molina Healthcare Uses Data Masking To Protect Patient Information
- Index Engines Makes Data Domain Backups Searchable
- Culling Unneeded Data Saves Time And Money
- Clearwell Offers Complete E-Discovery Solution With New Modules
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Architectures
Data Disposition Must Be A Priority
IT groups rethinking the "save everything forever" approach find deletion and retention policies and tools must be razor sharp to cut through a morass of regulations.
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Reviews & Workshops
Review: elQNetworks' Enterprise Security Analyzer
Compliance is both complicated and imperative, stretching budgets and IT staffs to the breaking point. These issues are addressed with elQNetworks' Enterprise Security Analyzer, which combines compliance reporting with auditing
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Blogs
IronMountain Buys Archive Appliance Maker, But The Future Is Online
February 22, 2010 1:41 PM
Posted by Andrew Conry Murray
IronMountain announced today that it will pay $112 million for Mimosa Systems, which makes archiving appliances for e-mail, SharePoint and files. The purchase gives IM Digital both a premises archiving product as well as a SaaS-based e-mail archiving service. The SaaS archiving offering uses technology from Mimecast, a UK-based company.
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Enterprises Need to Pay More Attention to Data Privacy
February 15, 2010 12:00 PM
Posted by David Hill
Many enterprises are still under the delusion that they can do more or less what they want with individuals' personal information. The European Union, many states (including California with its data breach law), and now Massachusetts are attempting to disabuse them of that notion. But this situation is not only about how to achieve compliance with disparate laws; it should also be a wakeup call informing enterprises that they now have to manage information for more than what they consider to be their primary business processes.
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Is D2D2C The Next Big Thing In Backup?
February 2, 2010 9:30 AM
Posted by Howard Marks
Today CommVault announced that their Simpana integrated backup and archiving software can now use public cloud providers in addition to local disk and tape as a data store. I hope that CommVault is, as they were with deduplication, leading a new wave of disk-to-disk-to-cloud (D2D2C)backup and archive solutions. While I firmly believe that there's a lot of life left in tape, especially for long retention archives with relatively low access rates, 25 years of consulting to organizations has taught me that tape drives, like backhoes and other heavy equipment, should be left to trained professionals. Small and even mid-size organizations rarely handle tape properly, leaving them exposed to data loss.
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New Importance In Metadata Collection
December 7, 2009 4:34 PM
Posted by Christine Taylor
Metadata has been around for a long time but is garnering new attention in the eDiscovery world. Metadata contains information about the creation and editing of electronic documents. E-mail, word processing documents, spreadsheets, database records - all of these and more will have some level of metadata attached to it. Basic metadata includes information on the document's creator and modifiers and the date and times that it was created and acted upon. Metadata matters in eDiscovery because it goes to prove pesky details like the actual dating of an email message as opposed to a modified hard copy, or the fact that a government-produced Word document was reviewed by a lobbyist firm. Interesting, and information that could be crucial to litigation.
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Email Archiving And How To Sell It?
November 30, 2009 3:42 PM
Posted by Howard Marks
Even with under 50 percent penetration, the Email archiving market is starting to shake out. Two vendors are trying to build new identities for themselves, to establish new market niches and change from being the number 8 product in a 22 player field and be thought of as first, second or third in the market they define for themselves. Metalogix went the value route, reducing the price of their Professional Archive Manager for Exchange (PAM) to $15/user while releasing a new version. ZL Technologies decided to sue Gartner for continuing to put them in the niche category of their Magic Quadrant report.
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eDiscovery And The Law Firm
November 23, 2009 2:03 PM
Posted by Christine Taylor
Outside law firms are uncomfortably aware that their eDiscovery clients are making tracks and taking their pocketbooks with them. The trick is for traditionally tech-averse law firms to change, and fast.
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