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Digital Archiving As A Service
Today we examine the terrain for enterprise e-discovery and information governance releases going into LegalTech 2012.  My previous posts covered the e-discovery service provider landscape and attorney review software and SaaS. Check back for show-time updates when more announcements go public Monday. Recent M&A First, an M&A catch-up. 2011 saw several major deals, ...
E-discovery isn’t usually the first thing enterprise users think of moving to the cloud.  But as an ESG survey with Clearwell recently noted, and Craig Ball points out in LTN, corporate data is already in the cloud, through LinkedIn, Salesforce.com, Office 360, Google Apps, Facebook and countless other applications. The ...
Brian Babineau, vice president of the consulting firm Enterprise Strategy Group in Milford, said that when Iron Mountain began offering digital storage in 2002, few others were in the market. But today, “there are a lot of companies that offer similar services to what Iron Mountain has in their portfolio.’’ ...
The last few weeks have been trying for the management at Iron Mountain. I was first alerted to brewing trouble when the company cancelled its annual analyst day—an event where company leaders typically share past performance and future goals. Why the deferral? It seems that a few dissident shareholders were ...
Last week Dell made a slew of announcements.  Mark Bowker wrote a good blog on the vStart announcement–a new Dell integrated computing appliance designed to support virtual server environments.  And there has been a ton of press coverage on Dell’s new cloud strategy–I thought I’d add ...
We came, we saw, we networked. This week’s storms across the US added some much-needed thrills for LegalTech 2011 attendees.  By Day 3 this year it felt even more than usual like we might not all escape the New York Hilton and return to our families unscathed. In industry news, there was ...
Old news you say? Not according to much of what I have been reading lately.   Just saw a tweet the other day from a major storage vendor citing a report about the growth of data.  Several months ago another large storage vendor cited the same phrase, same ...
According to Brian Babineau, a senior consulting analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group, some archiving hardware and software vendors are joining the Software-as-a-Service SaaS-only providers in the cloud email archiving market. via Cloud email archiving services: Users reveal the good, bad and the ugly.
IT is the group responsible for collecting all data as directed by in-house and external counsel. What many IT staffs do not realize is that some general e-mail management decisions, namely the use of mailbox quotas, actually make discovery tasks more complex and costly. An investment in an e-mail archive ...
Click here for the PowerPoint slide. Click here for the full ESG Research Brief, E-mail Archiving Supports IT's Role in Electronic Discovery.