Google-like search capabilities find desired emails and documents within seconds, not days; cut the cost of information retrieval for litigation

NEEDHAM, MA, December 15, 2009 –– Sonian, Inc., the trusted cloud-powered universal data management company, today announced full e-discovery support and advanced search capabilities as native components of its Cloud-powered email archiving and e-discovery service. Sonian ensures litigation readiness should the need arise while it simultaneously reduces storage costs, improves overall email server performance, meets compliance requirements and delivers a quick, easy and secure end-user experience.

Sonian Advanced Search features a web-based interface that conducts full searches across text and attachments with Google-like speed to find desired items within seconds. By tracking conversations going back years, finding every email on any specified topic and meeting discovery requests in seconds, it makes e-discovery fast and simple. Searches can easily be conducted by legal or compliance staff from a web-browser interface with results in just a few hours.

In the case of impending lawsuits, Sonian allows users to define a litigation hold for each legal case and protect relevant data from deletion indefinitely. Using the web-based user interface, legal counsel or IT can search for relevant messages and copy them to a hold folder where they remain for as long as the hold is in effect.

“Under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP), all corporate email can be requested for legal discovery. Failing to enforce a consistent retention policy and being unprepared to produce email data within very tight timelines may result in a presumption of guilt, cost millions in fines or settlements and damage credibility,” said George Nichols, CEO of Sonian, Inc. “Sonian allows businesses to comply with the FRCP requirements, apply litigation holds and easily meet e-discovery requests without paying for unnecessary features or placing additional demands on IT.”

About Sonian

Sonian is the trusted cloud-powered universal data management company, which delivers archiving/storage, e-discovery and compliance services. Global organizations rely on Sonian for its affordability, security, ease of deployment and use. Founded in 2006, Sonian supports thousands of customers on all major enterprise collaboration solutions including Exchange, Notes, GroupWise, Zimbra and others; and enjoys strategic partnerships with industry leaders Amazon Web Services, Rackspace, Axway and IBM. For more information, visit www.sonian.com.

Arnette to discuss opportunity for Cloud-computing startups and impact of new hybrid IT models on enterprise computing

NEEDHAM, MA, December 8, 2009 –– Sonian, Inc., the trusted cloud-powered universal data management company, today announced that founder and CTO Greg Arnette will speak at the Xconomy Forum: Cloud3 to take place from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, December 10, 2009, at the Microsoft New England R&D Center, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02142. Sonian’s mission is to archive the world’s electronic communications and files and simultaneously make them universally accessible and useful.

Cloud computing at its core essence offers incredible amounts of compute, storage and bandwidth for low commodity prices. Sonian’s Cloud-powered email archiving and ediscovery service promises to reduce storage costs, improve overall email server performance, meet compliance requirements and deliver a quick, easy and secure end-user experience. At the Xconomy Forum: Cloud3, Arnette will speak about capital-efficient cloud startups as well as a fourth wave of enterprise computing, where organizations adopt a hybrid IT approach that solves enterprise pain points with cloud computing that is as secure and reliable as on-premise IT.

Xconomy Forum: Cloud3

WHAT: “Cloud Computing and the Fourth Wave of Enterprise IT”
WHO: Greg Arnette, founder and CTO, Sonian, Inc.
WHEN: Thursday, December 10, at 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. EDT
WHERE: Microsoft New England R&D Center, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02142.

About Greg Arnette
At Sonian, Arnette is responsible for the product vision, technical innovation, and engineering leadership. He has been a messaging, collaboration, Internet and networking expert for more than 15 years and has designed leading messaging system solutions for all communication platforms. From 1998 to 2006, Arnette was founder and CTO for IntelliReach Corporation, a pioneer in integrated messaging management products and services. Arnette has a BA/BS from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
About Sonian
Sonian is the trusted cloud-powered universal data management company, which delivers archiving/storage, e-discovery and compliance services. Global organizations rely on Sonian for its affordability, security, ease of deployment and use. Founded in 2006, Sonian supports thousands of customers on all major enterprise collaboration solutions including Exchange, Notes, GroupWise, Zimbra and others; and enjoys strategic partnerships with industry leaders Amazon Web Services, Rackspace, Axway and IBM. For more information, visit www.sonian.com.

Easy to implement and use, Sonian is a ‘set-it and forget-it app’ for Saint John Vianney network administrator

NEEDHAM, MA, December 7, 2009 –– Sonian Inc., the trusted cloud-powered universal data management company, today announced that Saint John Vianney High School has implemented the Sonian Cloud-powered email archiving and ediscovery service to meet its seven-year email retention policy. Saint John Vianney chose Sonian because the affordable hosted service complements its existing Gmail system, which Google provides for free to schools and universities as part of its Google Apps for Education offering, on both price and ease of use.

“When measured against hosted email and archiving suites, the combination of Gmail and Sonian was still less expensive. As far as I’m concerned, Saint John Vianney has a best-of-breed solution with the combined Gmail and Sonian services,” said Tom McKenna, network administrator for Saint John Vianney High School. “Their SLAs mean they worry about the data by providing capabilities that we could never afford, such as redundancy, multiple data center backups, climate controlled data centers, etc. All at a fair price.”

Sonian also was easy to implement. McKenna was able to take advantage of Gmail’s option to configure and sort mail to another box and transition 140 mail boxes onto the new system in 30 minutes. “I set Sonian up lickety-split; set it and forget it,” McKenna says. “Gmail does make it easy to flip between accounts, but Sonian also is easy to configure and get up and running.”

“FERPA (Family Education Rights and Privacy Act) requires schools to ensure protection of student educational records. A simple way to achieve FERPA compliance with emailed records is to archive them securely with Sonian’s hosted email archiving solution,” said George Nichols, CEO of Sonian. “By storing emails securely in the cloud, these records are retrieved and viewed only by those allowed within FERPA.”

About Saint John Vianney High School

Saint John Vianney High School is a private, Catholic institution based in Holmdel, NJ, with over 1,000 students and a combined staff of approximately 100 teachers, administrators, and support personnel. School facilities are the finest in Monmouth County with 38 acres of developed land that includes athletic fields, a “turf” stadium field, two gyms and a weight training facility that support more than 25 varsity sports.  Saint John Vianney is a one-to-one Tablet PC school where technology is key to education and communication.  A ParentPortal allows parents/guardians to go online to see their child’s real-time progression in each class. Over 99% of graduates go on to college and attend many of the most prestigious colleges and universities.

About Sonian

Sonian is the trusted cloud-powered universal data management company, which delivers archiving/storage, e-discovery and compliance services. Global organizations rely on Sonian for its affordability, security, ease of deployment and use. Founded in 2006, Sonian supports thousands of customers on all major enterprise collaboration solutions including Exchange, Notes, GroupWise, Zimbra and others; and enjoys strategic partnerships with industry leaders Amazon Web Services, Rackspace, Axway and IBM. For more information, visit www.sonian.com.

Cost effective, secure, reliable, compliant and easy-to-use Cloud-powered email archiving and ediscovery service will be on display

NEEDHAM, MA, December 2, 2009 –– Sonian, Inc., the trusted cloud-powered universal data management company, today announced it has been selected to exhibit at the MIT Startup Showcase from 6:00 to 9:00 P.M. on Thursday, December 3, at the MIT Museum, 265 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139. Sonian’s Cloud-powered email archiving and ediscovery service helps reduce storage costs, improve overall email server performance, meet compliance requirements and delivers a quick, easy and secure end-user experience.

Featuring 30 early stage startup exhibitors, the MIT Startup Showcase is part of the 12^th Annual MIT Venture Capital Conference. Sonian is one of 30 early-stage businesses from sectors including information technology, healthcare and clean technology to exhibit their business vision and technology prowess. Attendees include VCs, Angels, corporate executives, and the general public.

“The upcoming MIT Startup Showcase is a great opportunity to see what an impact Sonian’s Cloud-powered, hosted email archiving and ediscovery service is making on organizations,” said George Nichols, CEO of Sonian, Inc. “Our platform-agnostic Sonian service supports all major e-mail programs, requires no additional hardware or software investment and can be up and running within an hour.”

About Sonian

Sonian is the trusted cloud-powered universal data management company, which delivers archiving/storage, ediscovery and compliance services. Global organizations rely on Sonian for its affordability, security, ease of deployment and use. Founded in 2006, Sonian supports thousands of customers on all major enterprise collaboration solutions including Exchange, Notes, GroupWise, Zimbra and others; and enjoys strategic partnerships with industry leaders Amazon Web Services, Rackspace, Axway and IBM. For more information, visit www.sonian.com.

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