Posts Tagged ‘mimosa’

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 constantly amazed at this question.

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 for its innovative next-generation solutions for email, file and SharePoint archiving, which are years ahead of the Symantec Enterprise Vault solution.

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 strict need for compliance to look at business archiving solutions under which they classify Mimosa NearPoint which offers besides email archiving, advanced eDiscovery, File System Archiving and SharePoint Archiving.

Archiving software has been around for a decade now and eventually organizations will start to question if the product they initially deployed is still offering them value or if there are better solutions out there that match their requirements better.  After the decision has been made to pick a better archiving solution the obvious question arises on how to get the data out of the current existing system and into the new system.

Rafael Ruffolo from Computer Word Canada wrote an interesting article titled “Basic eDiscovery Practices are being avoided”. In it Rafael stated:

“Even more troubling for Miles is that many fundamental e-discovery best practices are largely being avoided across these IT shops. About 55 per cent of survey respondents indicated that they set no guidance on dealing with important e-mails as records, and another 38 per cent said they conduct little or no enforcement of their management policies”.

In honor of Sys admin Day my post today is a little bit more technical and I want to go over the scalability of a SharePoint Farm deployment.

Microsoft actually has done a good job with making the scalability limits available for SharePoint, which is important seeing the growth SharePoint is going through. 

During several recent eDiscovery seminars I have presented at, I have been asked the question;”Is the federal government also subject to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure?”  My answer has always been “Yes”, any entity party to a federal lawsuit is subject to the FRCP. Now I can point to a case that illustrates my opinion.

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.