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Archiving

Preserving Email Through Hosted Archiving

When message archiving came on the scene, most thought of it as a concern for only the most regulated vertical, like financial services. In December 2006, however, when the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) were amended to include the discovery of electronically stored information, archiving took on a whole new importance to a much wider audience. For organizations, it meant re-thinking and changing the way electronic communications were collected, reviewed and made available in response to a discovery request.

Archiving
With the escalation of social technology adoption, the question has to be asked: Is it discoverable? “In regulated industries, such as financial services, they do not care if you are using email,...
Archiving
Some organizations develop messaging retention policies based on regulation requirements, but many organizations do not have such guidelines to follow. Andres Kohn, vice president of technology and...
Archiving
Archiving and eDiscovery for email are a well-understood, even if not so well-practiced set of requirements; but compared to the current status of archiving and eDiscovery for collaboration systems,...
Archiving
The importance of archiving emails can be seen in various national headlines—email deletion at Boston’s City Hall against Massachusetts public records law comes to mind. Among many common sense...
Archiving
As email volumes continue to grow, organizations are struggling to keep order. To manage the constant stream, email archiving is becoming vital to all organizations, not just to certain vertical...
On Message with Ben Gross
Social network analysis is the study of connections, flows, and structure among people, groups, organizations, and systems. The points or nodes in the network may include people, routers, or even...
Making the Case
Fletcher Allen Health Care serves as a regional referral center—providing advanced care to approximately 1 million people in Vermont and northern New York—and as a community hospital for...
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Social technology adoption has reached such critical mass that organizations need to create a social media strategy. According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project’s December 2008 tracking...
Messaging Continuity
Understanding the importance of data protection of messaging systems and its continuous availability is critical. Messaging today has become much more than just another application.
Messaging Continuity
For businesses to recover from failure events, such as a site level disaster or a local server failure, a high availability/disaster recovery (HA/DR) solution for the messaging infrastructure is a...
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