Archive for August, 2008

I awoke this morning to an interesting blog posting from a guy I respect a lot – Aaref Hilaly of Clearwell Systems. He’s commenting on the IBM announcement of its eDiscovery Manager. Aaref’s post astutely points out the IBM capabilities as well as product gaps (such as review, tagging, and analysis – conveniently enough, exactly the things that Clearwell provides…of course, I don’t begrudge a vendor conveniently taking advantage of an opportunity to promote itself; after all, I work for a technology vendor).

Even before I began working for an integrated content archiving software provider, I was well aware of the fact that archiving software provides benefits across several spectrums.

There’s saving storage costs by moving information off expensive production storage; there’s eDiscovery savings and risk mitigation by proactively retaining and disposing of information according to policy; and there’s the end-user productivity benefit of allowing workers to save as much information as they need without having to create PSTs or figure other work-arounds to get past quotas. All of these benefits are huge, but there is so much more to the story.