Now, where was I……?  Oh yes, I was listing the many benefits of archiving email  when I got yanked off stage!  Hmmm, where did I leave off……?  Ah yes…IT and one of the many benefits….

1. Reduces IT call centre traffic.  How many times in a month does IT receive a call to increase quotas or retrieve deleted email?  As I said in my previous point, quotas become a thing of the past with SourceOne, so no calls Continue Reading

In my last blog I talked about doing “real archiving”.  What is that exactly?  Simply put, it is using policies and rules to determine what content should get kept — archived — where it should be stored and for how long.  A proper archive is also online and enables users to get to the content through some intelligent search mechanism.  This differs dramatically from just putting content away on some box.  This “box” also might be on line, but lacks any intelligence to what should be kept; in most cases, everything is kept and most likely much longer than need be.  There is no intelligence behind what is stored; the latter isn’t really archiving, Continue Reading

Forgive me reader for I have sinned…..it has been many, many weeks since my last blog contribution.  Anyway, where was I at the end of 2011?……..ah yes, I was writing about EMC technologies that give you insight into what is in your environment.  I am now going to make you aware of EMC technologies that allow you to do something about all of that data.  Whether that data resides in mailboxes, PST files, file shares or Microsoft SharePoint, you have a fantastic EMC option that can move this data off of tier 1 storage into an archive that resides on tier 2, 3, or 4 storage.  

You might say, “I have an archive already, it is my tape library.”  (Imagine you are reading my lips).   Continue Reading