Archive for January, 2009

I enjoy reading about our new President’s attachment to his Blackberry mobile phone. In this recent blog on the Microsoft site the authors refers to the “archivists” who need to manage the content on the new President’s mobile phone for record keeping purposes. He is correct.

On December 17^th, 2008, Mimosa hosted their 1^st Exchange MVP/Expert Tech Chat on Exchange Server Issues.

This technical chat was open to anyone and questions were answered by Pat Richard, Steve Bryant, Martin Tuip, and myself (Jason Sherry).

All four of us were Exchange MVPs in 2008 and have been working with Exchange since the pre-Exchange days so we know how hard it is to get some questions answered, so we agreed this was a great event to help the community.

One of the little known facts about Enterprise Vault is that its Automatic Classification Engine (ACE) is based on technology from Orchestria.  Did you see the announcement that Orchestria was purchased by Computer Associates last week?  This not mean that ACE will be disabled anytime soon, I suspect that any contractual agreement between Orchestria and Symantec will be honored by CA. 

Good  Indexing Means Good Archiving

An important aspect of Email (and file) archival is the performance of the index engine that is embedded in the archival solution.  Traditionally the index engine is only considered for its search performance.  And the importance of good search in an email archival solutions is crucial.  But the index engine also plays an important role in legal discovery, retention management and data classification. 

The Minnesota chapter of AIIM will be producing their annual conference titled “Control, The Enterprise Content Management Expo” on Monday Jan 26, 2009 at the Four Points Sheraton, 1330 Industrial Blvd, Minneapolis Minn 55413.

I will be presenting a session titled “Preemptive eDiscovery Strategies for Small, Medium and Large Entities” from 8:30 am to 9:45 am.

It’s hard to believe that the amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) took effect over 2 years ago. It’s hard to believe because so many organizations have still done very little to ensure they can meet the requirements set forth by these rules. But, I truly believe that 2009 will be the “end of the ignorance.” Why? Because in today’s economic climate, every dollar counts.