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Sonian nominated for award at MassNetComms

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massnetcomms-greg-george1 Sonian CEO George Nichols (l) and CTO Greg Arnette (r) atteneded the recent MassNetComms awards dinner. Sonian was nominated for best cloud and virtualization data management company.


Sonian is a Judge's Choice Winner at Under the Radar Conference

Judges Choice Winner Under the Radar Sonian is a 2009 Under the Radar Conference Winner in the Data Management category. We are thrilled to be recognized by the judge’s panel as an innovator in cloud compute and IT services. View the 6 minute speed pitch at www.undertheradar.com

We’ll display the video in a separate post.


AWSome! – We're a finalist in the AWS Startup Challenge

Sonian’s cloud compute powered archiving service, running on the AWS infrastructure, is a finalist in the 2008 Startup Challenge.

We’re looking forward to some spirited business competition with the other finalist, and congratulate all the other companies that made the cut.


Video interview: Jeff Barr describes Sonian's use of AWS

Amazon Web Services Evangelist Jeff Barr describes how Sonian uses AWS for our new hosted archive system.

Watch the brief video here.


White House E-Mail Case Clears Another Hurdle

The White House email archiving fiasco is under further scrutiny. eWeek is reporting that a District Court Judge has ruled the White House must participate in some type of limited discovery activities.

Rejecting the White House Office of Administration’s contention that it is not subject to Freedom of Information Act requests, District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ordered the OA (Office of Administration) to participate in limited discovery.

With Kollar-Kotelly’s ruling, the CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington) can continue its campaign to find documents prepared by the White House OA assessing the scope of the missing White House e-mail problem and its proposed recovery plan.

The lost emails issue will be recorded in the history books along with other communication data losses, such as the Watergate-Nixon tape erasures in the 1970’s and Fawn Hall thinking she deleted IBM PROFS messages as Iran-Contra blew open in the 1980’s.