November 2008
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MXsense Launches Email Archiving Platform
MXsense Solutions, Inc. today announced an email archiving platform. Delivered as a hosted, software as a service (SaaS) solution, MXsense provides a powerful search engine with built-in indexing and archiving features designed to manage the ever-growing volumes of information and intelligence stored in email communications and attachments.
October 2008
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Fierce Content Management: You Need to Understand...
Today’s article by Ron Miller of Fierce Content Management clarifies the difference between daily backups and email archiving:
Email archiving, on the other hand, involves a system where email is saved, compressed and electronically time stamped. The archiving process removes duplicate data so that you don’t have to store 50 copies of the same attached document (or even 50 copies of...
Universities: Email Growing Out of Control
College and university students are increasingly using social media tools and email to manage their academic and personal lives on and off campus.
According to Nicholas Carr’s recent blog post, “The Email Monster,” Amherst College is managing approximately 180,000 inbound emails each day — all from a student population of 1,600. One of the interesting aspects of this...
September 2008
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Oracle Court Decision Shows Need for Email...
Yet another email snafu. Oracle Corporation is the latest company to illustrate the need for email archiving. Acording to a Bloomberg report today, Oracle’s Chief Executive Officer Larry Ellison:
deliberately destroyed or withheld e-mails and failed to preserve tape recordings that should have been turned over to lawyers for shareholders suing him, a judge ruled.
U.S. District Judge...
April 2008
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Court Tells White House to "Collect and Preserve"...
The legal jousting between the White House and a U.S. district judge over email records offered a new technical twist. According to an eWeek article last week, Judge John Facciola requested that the Bush administration collect and preserve all email in PST. file format. Industry experts cite the vulnerability of this approach as .PST files are easily corruptible and can be altered. Political,...
March 2008
4 posts
Radicati: Email Archiving Market to Grow to $6.6...
The Radicati Group released its annual study on the email archiving market which includes both on-premises and hosted e-mail archiving solutions.
According to the press release,the study indicates that worldwide revenues for both segments of the market are expected to reach almost $1.7 billion in 2007, and grow to over $6.6 billion by 2012.
DOD Inspector Vows to Probe Emails on Fort
In today’s Asbury Park Press, the local newspaper serving central New Jersey, there is an article on how the Department of Defense’s inspector general plans to investigate questionable emails from a high-ranking Army official concerning the closure of the Fort Monmouth base. Last week we went to Washington, DC and met with a consulting group that represents various government agencies. ...
AIIM Study Shows Little or No Confidence in Email...
According to a recent article in ComputerWeekly.com, a survey by AIIM, the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Association, has found that nearly two-thirds (63%) of UK respondents have little or no confidence that their firms’ emails related to commitments and obligations are recorded, complete and recoverable. The article, “Confidence Ebbs in Email Archiving,” written by Joe...
February 2008
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Expert: White House Email System 'Primitive'
The White House continues to underscore the need for an email archiving system. According to the USA Today, a computer expert who worked at the White House called the email system “a ’primitive’ setup that created a high risk that data would be lost.” In written statements placed on record by Steven McDevitt at a congressional hearing, a study by White House technical...
White House e-Discovery Squeeze Puts Email Backup...
An article in Computerworld sheds light on the vulnerability of not having a email archiving policy in place. The White House is dealing with a federal judge’s order to prepare a discovery plan amid a legal skirmish about missing email. Industry experts say businesses should move to improve backup and email archiving policies to avoid similar legal problems. Mike Osterman, president of...
January 2008
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White House Has No Comprehensive Email Archive
According to the Washington Post, the Bush administration has relied on an inadequate archiving system for storing the millions of e-mails sent through White House servers, despite court orders and statutes requiring the preservation of such records, according to documents and technical experts.
September 2007
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Morgan Stanley Agrees to Pay $12.5 Million for...
Financial services organizations beware!
Failing to deliver email correspondence can result in heavy penalties and fines. Ask Morgan Stanley, who recently agreed to pay regulators $12.5 million to settle claims that it withheld emails from them after falsely claiming that the information was lost in the World Trade Center attacks on September 11, 2001.
According to an article in...