National Kidney Foundation cuts GroupWise storage with cloud storage email archiving. Search Storage reports that NKF is saving money on email storage with the Sonian Archive hosted service.
Hosted archiving does not require any on-premises hardware or software, and enables the IT department to focus on other projects without worrying about email retention and long term storage.
Many times archiving projects get put off for another day because of “policy paralysis,” which is an affliction that prohibits IT decision makers from deciding what to keep and what to discard before implementing archiving.
Cloud-powered archiving does not penalize a simple straightforward “keep it all” plan. This means IT decision makers can implement retention archiving now, and create policies later. It’s a Win-Win scenario for IT and businesses, and is the cure to “policy paralysis.”
Overflowing in-boxes, maxed out email servers, and now even more places for employees to generate content. Enterprises are implementing new collaboration systems (Sharepoint, GDocs, ZoHo) for document sharing, which means employees will have more options beyond email to collaborate internally with each other and externally with customers, vendors, friends & family.
These new capabilities mean there are growing “shards of content” data silos in the enterprise that need to be captured and archived for compliance, e-discovery, storage management and universal information governance best practices.
Sonian believes the best most cost-effective and reliable way to solve this problem is a centralized archiving service, powered by cloud-scale infrastructure as a service. Here’s why:
The City of Boston’s Mayor’s office is embroiled in controversy for not preserving email records for a key adviser to the Mayor. The specific details are still being uncovered, and storage forensic experts have been retained to try to recover deleted messages from workstations and servers. If the backup tapes exist some of the data will be recovered, but at huge expense.
As we wait for the investigation to report the facts, what we do know is that the tax payer will bear the expense burden for forensic experts, and the City of Boston’s existing $1 million dollar outlay for archiving and e-discovery last year did not adequately preserve all the data.
On-premise expensive software and hardware based archives are less secure and more susceptible to tampering than cloud-based archives. The right cloud-based solution can be more secure than on-premise, reducing data touch points, one set of secure access credentials, and always allowing fast immediate access to all the stored data.
Team Sonian is very excited to officially announce our Series A financing round. We’re working with two great investors, Prism VentureWorks and SummerHill Venture Partners, to create the world’s first true cloud-compute powered data archiving and information intelligence platform.
Sonian sees a sizeable opportunity uniting cloud computing with managing employee generated content, and creating value added services for this rich data. Prism and Summerhill share our vision for “Hybrid IT”, one where businesses strategically and tactically meld cloud-powered SaaS functions with on-premise servers in order to access their data seamlessly, instantly and cost-effectively.
The financing will be used to expand the company’s marketing and engineering efforts.
Hello! – I’m Greg Arnette, a repeat-entrepreneur and currently the founder and CTO for Sonian, a universal data management web service powered by cloud computing. This is my “personal content hub” to talk about email, collaboration, big data management, cloud computing, start-ups and whatever else comes to mind. See you soon!
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