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Happy FRCP Anniversary? Sonian is here to help ease the burden

FRCP – the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure – debuted December 2006. Information technology departments across the nation groaned with the burden of yet one more compliance issue to manage. 2007 brings new changes, and a renewed focus to find the most cost effective, simple, reliable way to “get compliant.” Below is

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Email Archiving an Important Initiative for 2008

Michael Osterman [http://www.ostermanresearch.com/] posted the results of a 2008 IT Initiatives Survey in his weekly newsletter [http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/gwm/2007/1119msg1.html]. The survey asked CIOs and IT Admins their thoughts on a range of initiatives. Not surprisingly, eliminating spy ware and disaster recovery

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Processor.com: Store Your Data & Stay In Compliance

Processor.com posted a timely commentary [http://www.processor.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles/P2946/21p46/21p46.asp&guid=] on email archiving issues facing small to medium size enterprises (SME). Historically SME’s have not had access to affordable archive solutions, and thus have “gone without.” Today’s increasingly

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New Report says SMEs Pay Double for Messaging

File this under “Not Surprising” – David Greenfield and Osterman Research released a messaging cost analysis study on small to medium enterprise (SME) purchasing decisions. > SMEs Pay Double for Messaging [http://blogs.zdnet.com/Greenfield/?p=153] by ZDNet [http://zdnet.com/]‘s Dave Greenfield — If the costs of running your

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White House ordered to preserve all e-mail

CNN.com is reporting “a federal judge Monday ordered the White House to preserve copies of all its e-mails.” The White House email issue has been bubbling for a few months now. Some estimates claim over 5 million messages may have been removed and are unaccounted for. White House email

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November Happenings

* Tuesday November 13th, 2007 – I will be a panelist for our partner Know Technologies conference in Portland, Maine. > KNOW TECHNOLOGY TO HOST EXECUTIVE SUMMIT ON NOVEMBER 13, 2007 – “INFORMATION – YOUR ASSET” [http://www.knowtechnology.net/] * Friday November 16th, 2007 – TechCrunch comes to Boston! George and I will be at the

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New Team Member – Andrea Peltrin

Andrea Peltrin has joined the development team to add his expert and creative ideas on user interface design to our search results screens. Welcome Andrea!

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What are we doing?

Sonian update. We’re here, working on the production system after completing our beta tests. The blog hasn’t received as much attention as I had hoped, but look for some new posts in the next few days. We are deploying the early adopter production system and will be sending

News.com: The new e-discovery burden

Eric Sinrod, a partner at Duane Morris and columnist about technology and legal issues, wrote in his recent News.com post [http://www.news.com/The-new-e-discovery-burden/2010-1030_3-6213845.html?tag=nefd.top] some of his thoughts on the one-year anniversary of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) amendments. I

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Developer Power

A hearty shout of thanks and appreciation to the Sonian engineering team. Our smart, industrious engineers are working some code magic with our new release. Jeff, Dick, Tim, Bira, Efren, Pravin, Shivika, Max, Roberto, and Anders. Keep up the good work! We really appreciate your hard work.

Fuzzy Math? DIY Archive versus Hosted

David Berlind posted an excellent article on his ZDNet blog about Google’s $50/yr all-in-one communications and collaboration platform, and how estimating costs for running your own messaging server is hard to determine. It’s definitely an exercise in “fuzzy math.” > Does payback on email alone make Google Apps’

The Last Lone Inventor Returns

Today I met with a friend to talk about a few topics: Our progress at Sonian; our mutual passion for carrier-grade service architectures; and his new start up which is building a very interesting hardware/software VoIP offering for the consumer and SOHO market. I was intrigued how a relatively

Practical Lessons: How to avoid costly email archiving mistakes

Byte and Switch posted an informative article The Biggest Email Archiving Errors [http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=135209&f_src=byteandswitch_gnews] that offers some practical advice on email archive issues. The number one issue discussed is “Storing too much information” > A frequent problem involves the storage

Mass High Tech Profiles Sonian

George Nichols and I are profiled in this week’s (10/1/07) online [http://masshightech.bizjournals.com/masshightech/stories/2007/10/01/story4.html] and print edition of Mass High Tech. Many thanks to Mass High Tech editors for inviting us to share the Sonian story with them. Onward

Whoops: Morgan Stanley did it Again!

Information Week is reporting [http://tinyurl.com/22jxvb] that The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority said Morgan Stanley has to pay $12.5 million in fines to resolve charges that it mishandled email. The gist of the story is FIRA found Morgan Stanley negligent of improper email handling on several occasions.

A Day of Leading-edge Thinking

Today I attended two tech events at MIT in Cambridge, MA that coincidentally aligned on the same day. So much of my time this past year building Sonian has been working with a virtually distributed workforce across multiple timezones. We leverage the many great hosted workspace tools and real-time chat

Transparency = Accountability = Strength

Sonian is all about “changing the conversation” between messaging technology vendor and the audience of IT departments who look to us to solve their archive problem. It’s our challenge to communicate openly and in a way that really hasn’t been seen before in this industry. This mode of

Congratulations to BDS and Mozy.com

Techcrunch [http://www.techcrunch.com/] reported Sunday in this post [http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/23/breaking-online-backup-startup-mozy-acquired-by-emc-for-76-million/] that online backup vendor Mozy is going to be acquired by EMC for a nice $76m. This is great validation for hosted data services, and the promising future hosted backup and hosted

Free goodies for you: Try FreeSender.com

Announcing FreeSender.com [http://www.freesender.com/]. FreeSender is a super-simple free web service you can use to transfer files to anyone, anywhere in the world, just by using a web browser. How many times have you tried to send a 50Mb ZIP file to someone only to have the

Compass Says Increasing Size and Volume of E-mails Straining IT Resources

This just in from the “This is no Surprise” department: > Recent research from the global IT and business consulting group Compass [http://www.compassmc.com/North_America/home_nam.htm] shows that the size and number of e- mails are skyrocketing. This growth can have a significant impact on business

Fixing Email, and SPAM, for good

It seems most of my recent posts have been about email, messaging and Web 2.0, instead of Sonian’s hosted archiving theme. This post continues the trend, and yes there is a method to the madness. Let’s dust off the crystal ball and take a look ahead… to

Yahoo! acquires Zimbra. Enterprise Mesaging 2.0 Sparks Up

In an interesting turn of events, Yahoo! is going to acquire [http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9779918-7.html] Zimbra for a reported USD $350 million. This Yahoo! acquisition came out of nowhere. Some expected Google to go after Zimbra, since Zimbra would have been a nice complement to the Google

10 Web 2.0 Apps CIOs Personally Use

Sonian is promoting the concept that mid-sized organizations can benefit most from a hosted archive service that embraces “web 2.0″ usability traits; such as dynamic AJAXy web UI’s that are intuitive and require no training, frictionless sign up and free trials, simplified work flow that leverages tagging and

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CMSWire: More eDiscovery Scares: Don't Delete Your Email!

CMSWire posted a story [http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-cms/more-ediscovery-scares-dont-delete-your-email-001694.php] summarizing a recent Osterman Research/Fortiva report on eDiscovery trends. A key “take-away” is that most organizations need some type of archive system in place to minimize the eDiscovery and data storage burden on IT. You can get

Capgemini to help push Google Apps into larger companies

Cnet News.com is reporting here [http://tinyurl.com/3y4uqe] that Google will use Capgemini to help big business use Google Apps Premiere. The article says Capgemini will provide desktop and customization support so that larger businesses can get a custom experience from Google’s “commodity” application platform. > Global consulting