On February 22nd, Iron Mountain announced that it had acquired archiving vendor Mimosa Systems for $112 million – 5.4 times Mimosa’s 2009 revenues of $20.6 million. The acquisition is an interesting one on a couple of levels. First, Mimosa…
One of the traditional difficulties of business travel has been not having access to files when you need them. You can take key files with you on a USB stick, but reviewing a proposal or making changes to a document, for example, can result in…
IT managers, CIOs, CTOs and others make technology decisions about a wide variety of solutions that impact how we work: email, archiving, encryption, collaboration, managed file transfer, Web 2.0 applications and so forth. Decision makers…
I originally wrote this for Network World Fusion back in July 2008, but thought it would be timely for presentation again:There’s a lot of talk about unified communications – the integration of email, voice, fax, video, presence-enabled…
Michael Sampson is an industry analyst who for many years has focused on collaboration practices and technologies with an emphasis on how distributed teams can work together more effectively. He is on my short list of most respected analysts…
Without doubt, the Apple iPad is an extremely cool device. Watching the video on their Web site, I would definitely like to have one.
But where does the iPad fit for business travelers? Here’s my two cents:If I was going on a day trip and had…
Why do we have an office? For must of us, it’s so that we can have a physical location in which to receive and send emails, make calls, access files, visit Web sites, write documents, build spreadsheets and tweet.
We’re all familiar with the…
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has issued a regulatory notice that provides its guidance on how registered representatives should use, and how their firms should manage, postings on social networking sites and blogs. Here…
At GWAVAcon yesterday in Las Vegas, I had an interesting discussion with three gentlemen from SEP Software.
We were talking about long-term archiving and the problems associated with accessing old data for which systems are no longer available….
Mobility in its greater context – namely, enabling employees to work from any location – is becoming more common as a means of increasing organizational flexibility, reducing operating expenses, reducing taxes and improving customer service. …
