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The Know-IT-All’s Guide to PST File Elimination

Martin Tuip — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:02:39 +0000

It is of my opinion that there are almost zero reasons to legitimately have PST files in a corporate environment and I have been speaking on this topic a few times in the past. Many people underestimate how bad the problem / infestiation of PST files is in their organization and its erradication can be [...]

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The Know-IT-All’s Guide to PST File Elimination

Agentless or desktop software required?

Martin Tuip — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:32:26 +0000

I’ve been in this industry for most of the last decade now and have seen pretty much all the ways archiving products can and have been deployed in organizations. From small to Fortune 500, they all are slightly different in the way their internal IT is being managed and used. Archiving products can have a [...]

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Agentless or desktop software required?

Training Employees Before they Hit the SEND Key

Bill Tolson — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:49:10 +0000

Time and time again we see news stories and legal case writes ups where it has become obvious employees still have no idea that an email is not a private communication. I find most employees, even corporate legal department types, still consider an email is like a verbal conversation in a parking lot; once its [...]

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Training Employees Before they Hit the SEND Key

A True Email Archiving Appliance

Bill Tolson — Wed, 12 May 2010 19:47:01 +0000

An email archiving appliance should not just capture sent and received email messages on some unknown storage device. If you need to archive your email, be sure to look at all your organizations requirements; storage management, eDiscovery, compliance, user productivity, and disaster recovery. Iron Mountain and Dell have announced a new Email Archiving Appliance that [...]

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A True Email Archiving Appliance

Do you know what BLOBs do to SharePoint ?

Martin Tuip — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:57:08 +0000

First let me explain what BLOB stands for. A Binary Large OBject is a collection of binary data that is stored as a single ‘file’ inside a database. Within SharePoint these are your office documents, images, audio and video files. While I have no doubts in the overall scalability of SharePoint, the product has some [...]

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Do you know what BLOBs do to SharePoint ?

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 [...]

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To Mimosa Systems and Symantec Enterprise Vault Customers

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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How Exchange 2010 handles archiving and retention

Stuck on an another archiving platform and want to move?

Martin Tuip — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:02:56 +0000

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 [...]

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Stuck on an another archiving platform and want to move?

Litigation Holds and Lessons Learned

Bill Tolson — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:55:30 +0000

Bow Tie Law’s Blog recently had an interesting piece on litigation holds titled “The Holding Pattern: Lessons Learned on Litigation Holds” where insufficient notices or notices crated in bad faith can jeopardize a case because of the possibility of spoliation of ESI. I have run across this same problem with past customers that didn’t take [...]

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Litigation Holds and Lessons Learned