data compliance and archiving

SunGard to open arms – and data centers – to healthcare IT

Washington D.C. isn't the only place where people are paying a lot of attention to healthcare these days. The IT world sees healthcare as a soon-to-be booming market, thanks to billions of dollars set aside for electronic healthcare records and procedures in this year's economic stimulus bill. So...

SourceOne stokes Symantec-EMC archiving rivalry

EMCers are talking up their SourceOne archiving platform today, and their rivals at Symantec are doing the same. But while EMC extols the virtues of its EmailXtender replacement, Symantec is giving...

Shoah Foundation tames 8 PB with tape and automation

Add this as a point in the 'tape' column if you're scoring the ancient debate at home. The Shoah Foundation, founded by Stephen Spielberg to preserve Holocaust...

Plasmon to be taken private

Several weeks after recommending to investors that they approve a bid by a private equity company to take over the struggling maker of optical storage...

Symantec question marks: email archiving SaaS and VMware competition

There are some potential inferences that can be made from two moves Symantec Corp. made last week: the acquisition of MessageLabs and the launch of

Google offers long-term email archiving for $45

Google's Message Discovery, based on its 2007 acquisition of email archiving services vendor Postini, has a new option for archiving messages for up to 10 years for a flat fee of $45 per user per year. According to the

Forrester urges users to avoid overkill with email archiving

Everyone and their brother has an email archiving story to tell you these days, or so it seems. But Forrester Research analyst Jo Maitland told Forrester clients in a teleconference titled "Email Archiving Mistakes to Avoid" to keep things simple in their selection of a product and setting of...

Mr. Backup on Data Deduplication and Compliance

A couple of months ago, my co-blogger Tory Skyers wrote a post questioning the impact of data deduplication on evidence preservation and chain of custody best practices for e-discovery data. It's a question many users are asking, apparently, as "Mr. W. Backup", GlassHouse Technologies vice...

Another archiving alliance — Atempo and Permabit

Be immune to e-discovery requests and avoid having to archive emails

Want to avoid having to archive your emails? All you have to do is get elected President. Or, at least, be President Bush. The overseer of unprecedented government snooping tactics on private citizens has taken umbrage at the suggestion that his email correspondence be similarly...