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Cisco Offers Comprehensive SaaS Collaboration

Greg Arnette — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:30:27 +0000

Over the past 2 years Cisco has been acquiring companies in the messaging and collaboration space. The individual companies are all interesting and successful businesses, and now Cisco has combined them into a new SaaS collaboration service called WebEx Mail which feature-wise looks to compete head on with Google Apps and Hosted Exchange.

For $5 per user per month you get 35 Gb of storage, Outlook connector and a AJAXy web UI plus Ironport email security. This new offering will be an interesting platform to watch and see if Cisco can win collaboration business away from Microsoft, IBM, Novell and Google.

Sonian will provide hosted archiving services for this new platform.

Sonian GroupWise Archving Saves NKF Storage Costs

Greg Arnette — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:41:05 +0000

National Kidney Foundation cuts GroupWise storage with cloud storage email archiving. Search Storage reports that NKF is saving money on email storage with the Sonian Archive hosted service.

Hosted archiving does not require any on-premises hardware or software, and enables the IT department to focus on other projects without worrying about email retention and long term storage.

Email is Not Going Away …. But Will Evolve Into a Better Way to Collaborate

Greg Arnette — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:07:33 +0000

Every six months or so the mainstream tech press publishes a story about the “eminent demise” of email. It’s a tantalizing headline, in the same vein as “2010 Will Herald the Year of the Paperless Office” or “The Fax Machine is Dead – RIP.” But in fact email is not dying, and is still the primary communications medium for every business. What is happening is people are shifting some of their personal communication habits from one to one email accounts to one to many “broadcasts” via Twitter, Facebook, etc.

It’s this evolution of communication habits and preferences that is exciting to watch and be part of. Whether it’s an email or a tweet, it still content that is created by a person and shared. Sometimes its personal, sometimes its business. And in a corporate setting that content needs to be preserved for a variety of reasons: compliance, posterity, storage management and best business practices. That’s where Sonian lives. Preserving this content as your “trusted digital caretaker.”

Sonian is at the nexus of three waves of change: Rising interest in cloud computing, increasing demand for software as a service, and a mandate to get the best return on IT budget investment.

Email Server Feature: Email Archiving Market to Hit $5.1 Billion in 2013

admin — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:00:42 +0000

“Implementing an archival system helps businesses better manage a large amount of email and file attachments”

By Amy Tierney, TMCnet Web Editor

As more and more businesses use email as one of their primary forms of communication, companies are quickly realizing the importance of archiving those messages. And software companies like Lexington, Mass.-based Ipswitch Inc. are benefiting.

According to a recent study by The Radicati Group, Inc., the total email archiving market, which includes both on-premises and hosted email archiving solutions, is expected to grow from nearly $2.1 billion in 2009, to more than $5.1 billion in 2013. What’s more, about 75 percent of all archiving solutions are being sold as on-premises products, whereas 25 percent of archiving solutions are sold as hosted services, the survey found.

The “Email Archiving Market, 2009-2013″ study offers market size, installed base and revenue market share by vendor, four-year forecasts, email traffic and storage statistics for the email archiving market. The study also highlights legislative and technology issues, and includes a survey of corporate deployment and procurement plans.

Companies are using email archiving solutions to monitor employee communications and store messages. In addition, email archiving helps firms comply with state and federal regulations, such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act.

Implementing an archival system helps businesses better manage a large amount of email and file attachments, Ipswitch (News – Alert) officials said. Email archiving not only aids in data storage and retrieval, but it also saves space on email servers. Those are just a few reasons why Ipswitch is seeing an uptick in its hosted and installed email archiving solutions.

For example, the company’s hosted solution, Sonian Hosted Email Archiving, is designed to accommodate compliance archiving, as well as storage resource management. The solution uses the Amazon cloud to archive incoming, outgoing and internal email. Administrators or third-parties can search and retrieve email from an intuitive control panel. The affordable and scalable service is available for organizations of all sizes, Ipswitch said.

A free online demo is available here.

For companies looking for an installed solution, Ipswitch’s MailArchiva Enterprise Edition works with popular mail systems and archives all incoming, outgoing and internal email. The solution lives on a file system, as opposed to a database, which organizations can easily access. It also helps companies comply with regulatory issues, such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Ipswitch said.

Amy Tierney is a Web editor for TMCnet, covering unified communications, telepresence, IP communications industry trends and mobile technologies. To read more of Amy’s articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Amy Tierney

Centralized Archiving Solves Multi-computer Storage Problems

Greg Arnette — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:26:57 +0000

Most of us hop between several computers, melding our personal and professional lives while managing email accounts and living our lives. The recent Boston City Hall email turmoil concerning lost email, highlights the multiple computer problem from a different angle: We now learn the individual at the center of this case used more than one computer at his office, and the local email archives are spread between two local C:/ drives. The specific details are still emerging, but what’s being reported now is the original computer was replaced with a new model and the original was “tucked away in a 6th floor office” all the while with a valuable email archive unsecured and unprotected.

The benefits of centralized archiving with authenticated and audited access are better than the open holes caused by allowing PST files to live on local drives and thus vulnerable to loss and “data leakage.”

Cloud-powered Email Archiving is Perfect Neutral Repository

Greg Arnette — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:52:52 +0000

The City of Boston’s Mayor’s office is embroiled in controversy for not preserving email records for a key adviser to the Mayor. The specific details are still being uncovered, and storage forensic experts have been retained to try to recover deleted messages from workstations and servers. If the backup tapes exist some of the data will be recovered, but at huge expense.

As we wait for the investigation to report the facts, what we do know is that the tax payer will bear the expense burden for forensic experts, and the City of Boston’s existing $1 million dollar outlay for archiving and e-discovery last year did not adequately preserve all the data.

On-premise expensive software and hardware based archives are less secure and more susceptible to tampering than cloud-based archives. The right cloud-based solution can be more secure than on-premise, reducing data touch points, one set of secure access credentials, and always allowing fast immediate access to all the stored data.

Sonian Closes $5.6M Series A Financing

Greg Arnette — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:30:41 +0000

Team Sonian is very excited to officially announce our Series A financing round. We’re working with two great investors, Prism VentureWorks and SummerHill Venture Partners, to create the world’s first true cloud-compute powered data archiving and information intelligence platform.

Sonian sees a sizeable opportunity uniting cloud computing with managing employee generated content, and creating value added services for this rich data. Prism and Summerhill share our vision for “Hybrid IT”, one where businesses strategically and tactically meld cloud-powered SaaS functions with on-premise servers in order to access their data seamlessly, instantly and cost-effectively.

The financing will be used to expand the company’s marketing and engineering efforts.