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

Processor.com posted a timely commentary 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 regulated climate is forcing SME’s to reconsider their view on adopting an archive

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 by ZDNet‘s Dave Greenfield — If the costs of running your own messaging server seems like they’re getting out of

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

CMSWire posted a story 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 archiving systems as installed software, a dedicated appliance,

Computer Reseller News posted a story about small to medium size business (SMB) IT purchasing decisions for the coming year. Acquiring archiving and storage technologies rank second after security as a top priority. Relevant quotes from the article are below: “Moving SMBs from backup- and-recovery solutions to archiving technologies also

Newsflash! – well sort of if you follow the messaging market like I do – Google will acquire Postini for USD $625 million. This news came “out of the blue,” so-to-speak. But not surprising given Google’s recent efforts to strategically enhance their software as a service offerings to appeal to small