Email Archiving & Storage Management Experts

Electronic Records Disposition – Automated Deletion

Bill Tolson — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:40:15 +0000

Over the years, including just recently, I have been asked by potential customers how the Mimosa NearPoint content archive controls the disposition of ESI after it has reached the end of its retention period. Specifically they want to know how the system allows a records manager to approve the deletion of the records. I am [...]

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Electronic Records Disposition – Automated Deletion

To Mimosa Systems and Symantec Enterprise Vault Customers

Bill Tolson — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:52:35 +0000

Contrary to rumors that have been appearing in the last couple of days, Mimosa Systems/Iron Mountain will not be sun-setting any features, capabilities or products. In reality we will be increasing investment in NearPoint solution development and applications, and are adding features and functionality. For many years now Mimosa Systems has been known in the market [...]

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French Email Privacy Restrictions Not Always FRCP Obstruction

Bill Tolson — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:01:34 +0000

The two blog entries below point out some slightly different views of an interesting case about employee email privacy decided in France on Dec 15, 2009. The case was: Bruno B. vs. Giraud et Migot, Cour de Cassation, Chambre Sociale, Paris, 15 Dec. 2009, No. 07-44264 http://chrisdale.wordpress.com/2010/02/22/the-extent-of-te-right-to-privacy-in-french-employee%E2%80%99s-e-mails/ http://www.hhdataprotection.com/2010/02/articles/litigation/new-french-case-removes-automatic-privacy-shield-from-employee-emails-making-them-more-amenable-to-us-discovery/ From the Hogan & Hartson blog: The French high labor [...]

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French Email Privacy Restrictions Not Always FRCP Obstruction

Iron Mountain acquires Mimosa Systems

Martin Tuip — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:54:38 +0000

http://www.mimosasystems.com/html/news-pr-mimosa-systems-acquired-by-iron-mountain-02-22-10.htm Iron Mountain Adds All-in-One, On-Premises Archive to Complement its Cloud Offerings; Company Now Capable of Managing Information Wherever it Resides BOSTON (Feb. 22, 2010) – Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), an information management services company, today announced it has acquired Santa Clara, Calif.-based Mimosa Systems, Inc., a leader in enterprise-class content archiving [...]

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Litigation Hold, Adverse Inference and Additional eDiscovery Costs

Bill Tolson — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:00:49 +0000

In Melendres v. Arpaio, CV-07-2513-PHX (D. Ariz. February 11, 2010) (UNPUBLISHED), U.S. District Court Judge G. Murray Snow granted plaintiffs’ motion for sanctions and ruled that the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office (”MCSO”) failed to issue a timely litigation hold resulting in the destruction of relevant documents, including e-mails. In discovery, plaintiffs learned the MCSO shredded relevant [...]

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Litigation Hold, Adverse Inference and Additional eDiscovery Costs

How Exchange 2010 handles archiving and retention

Martin Tuip — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:00:30 +0000

As expected the archiving functionality in Exchange 2010 created quite a bit of a buzz with people and most have been wondering how in reality the archiving functionality stacks up against traditional archiving products like Mimosa NearPoint. Microsoft positions Exchange 2010 archiving at the moment as a Personal Archive and suggests customers who have a [...]

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Changes to the Ontario Rules of Civil Procedure

Bill Tolson — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:39:27 +0000

An excellent description of the new Ontario Rules of Civil Procedure from the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General which took effect on Jan 1, 2010 can be found here. Original post from: Mimosa SystemsChanges to the Ontario Rules of Civil Procedure

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Are foreign laws restricting the production of customer data being ignored by US courts?

Bill Tolson — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:51:58 +0000

In a recent case; Accessdata Corp. v. ALSTE Tech. GMBH, 2010 WL 3184777 (D. Utah Jan. 21, 2010), the Plaintiff, an American company, sought to compel defendant’s production of documents, including information related to customer complaints and defendant’s technical support of non-customers. Defendant objected to the interrogatories and requests for production on the grounds that [...]

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Are foreign laws restricting the production of customer data being ignored by US courts?

Concept Search and Early Case Assessment

Bill Tolson — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:14:20 +0000

There has been an ongoing argument as to the validity of concept search verses keyword search in discovery searches. The main arguments I have seen are: Keyword searches tend to miss relevant documents and are under-inclusive in their search results. Concept searches tend to produce too many non-responsive documents and are considered over-inclusive in their search results. The [...]

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Email management: Keeping the Business Bloodlines Flowing

Bill Tolson — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:46:18 +0000

Richard Ellis, manager UK & Ireland, Iron Mountain Digital warned IT departments that ignoring the growth of e-mail data are putting business continuity at risk. Even with the rise of new collaboration technologies, e-mail remains the blood flow of the business. The faster it flows, the faster business happens and so it is little surprise that [...]

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Email management: Keeping the Business Bloodlines Flowing