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Goldman Report: Cloud Enablers Will Win IT Budget Dollars

Greg Arnette — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:34:53 +0000

This week’s Goldman Sachs Report “A Paradigm Shift for IT: The Cloud,” gives us a view into IT decision maker attitudes about cloud computing and where enterprise workloads will be processed in the future.

Over the next three years a majority of compute workloads will migrate from non-cloud on-premises infrastructure to a hybrid public/private cloud ecosystem. Cloud means scale up in real-time to process data and then scale down when the work is done. No wasted compute power sitting idle.

The winners will be the companies that early on figured out how to harness the cloud infrastructure as a service for SaaS delivery and those that provide enabling technologies to help IT buyers get more value for their IT budget dollars. Sonian’s Universal Data Management cloud-powered platform is one such example of putting the cloud to good use today, solving the information governance pain point in a modern, secure, reliable and efficient manner.

Shards of Content Need Centralized Information Governance

Greg Arnette — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:02:00 +0000

Overflowing in-boxes, maxed out email servers, and now even more places for employees to generate content. Enterprises are implementing new collaboration systems (Sharepoint, GDocs, ZoHo) for document sharing, which means employees will have more options beyond email to collaborate internally with each other and externally with customers, vendors, friends & family.

These new capabilities mean there are growing “shards of content” data silos in the enterprise that need to be captured and archived for compliance, e-discovery, storage management and universal information governance best practices.

Sonian believes the best most cost-effective and reliable way to solve this problem is a centralized archiving service, powered by cloud-scale infrastructure as a service. Here’s why:

Installed archiving software never has enough compute power for large searches or deep analytics. The cloud offers CPU on demand to power through terabytes of content.
Installed archiving software consumes a lot of your expensive SAN and backup/DR storage. The cloud as your long-term storage locker with integrated search and analytics is configured as a virtual extension of your own network. A double Win-Win combination: less cost and just as secure.
Installed archiving software can’t help you gain valuable data insights to manage “top-line-growth” issues from better business intelligence and value that can be extracted from all content silos across the organization.

Crash Course in Cloud Powered Email Archiving

admin — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:59:55 +0000

Hosted Email Archiving Solutions Webinar

The purpose of this announcement is to invite you to a one hour crash course in cloud powered email archiving. The webinar presents a solution to meet your compliance needs and lower the cost and time of the eDiscovery process. The industry burden of eDiscovery is growing daily and costs of completing the process are becoming astronomical. The written word is considered one of the best forms of evidence. Since lawsuits involve events that occur in the past, organizations need to be prepared to go back years to produce written documentation.

This one hour webinar will give you the insight you need to make an informed decision about reducing costs while remaining secure by using the cloud’s power to archive your email.

Agenda:

How advancements in Cloud Computing are helping to deliver high quality services and storage to organizations with limited budgets and resources
How Cloud Computing is transforming the way archiving and data management are addressed today and into the future
An overview and demonstration of Sonian Archive
Q&A

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.