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Introducing the Source of all eDiscovery information!
Ever wonder where the “go to place” is for information regarding archiving news, legislation, court rulings and all things important in the world of corporate knowledge? We do too. So we have decided to create our own. We have started to actively accrue information for the Source and you will see that every couple of days a new set of what’s important in email archiving and discovery is appearing on our site.
You can RSS Subscribe to this to be notified of links to all new posts as we publish them. We want our page to become the source of all email archiving related information.
Post Brainshare Exhilaration
Oh my goodness!
When we signed up to exhibit at Novell’s Brainshare 2011, we did not expect an event with so much excitement about Novell and their new direction under Attachmate.
It has been a week now since we got back, and we are still reeling from both the event and the aftermath (and all of the incredible travel disasters that occurred on the way but that is a completely different blog!)
The people were amazing. With over 2000 people in attendance the atmosphere was beyond what we anticipated. We had so many fantastic people visit our booth from all over the world, both at the Oktoberfest theme party and during the week. I can’t recall a Brainshare (and I have been at more than I care to admit) where I have worked so hard and seen so many people come past our booth. It was great to catch up with some of our existing customers from afar as well as meet a host of potential new ones.
While our SD MeetMe product was very much a hot topic, Adrian, Henrik and I were very much left with the impression that controlling risk, Compliance and email Archiving are definitely the topics of the hour, and the interest we had from attendees regarding SD Archive for archiving, retention, eDiscovery and restoration of GroupWise accounts was fantastic to see.
The technology showcase and lab was hot with excitement over the new products that Novell had on offer and the number of partners who participated in the event. Attachmate have invested heavily in the Novell teams, both on the product side and on the customer side and this was very evident. So if you haven’t yet had a visit from Novell people who are re:focused on their customers- expect one.
Lots of work has been done with GroupWise 2012 and its impending release was cause for much talk and excitement around Brainshare. We gained a unique opportunity to chat in depth with the Collaboration team and the magic that they have worked with GroupWise and Vibe is going to make those two products unstoppable.
GroupWise 2012 users can expect dramatic improvements to mobility (particularly on Apple’s iPad and iPhone – which are very near and dear to my own heart) as well as a very sexy new Web Access interface. Integrations with Vibe make anyone looking at Microsoft’s SharePoint do a double take; and the wondrous inclusion of Novell’s Data Synchroniser virtually eliminates any third party integration arguments people have thrown at Novell in the past.
If you have recently migrated away from GroupWise- you should be kicking yourself, and if you haven’t but are thinking migration is a foregone conclusion, you might want to revisit those business reasons and have another look before you make a costly mistake.
Novell is back in the house! See you at Brainshare in 2012!
Adrian (VP Bus Dev & Marketing), Taryn (CEO) and Henrik (BDE) at the Oktoberfest Theme Party- Brainshare 2011
Dissecting computers: A geek in the making
Developer Extraordinaire
1. What is your earliest IT memory?
Opening up a really old working computer and pulling things out of it. I was really young and had no idea what I was doing. I think I got an electric shock as well!
2. What gadget or software can’t you live without?
Probably my laptop.
3. Do you prefer Mac or PC?
Mac, but they are too expensive!
4. What were you doing before you joined SilverDane?
Studying and working part time at Nando’s!
5. If you weren’t working in IT, what would you do?
Work as a car mechanic.
6. What is something quirky about you?
I do crazy things out of the blue and people think I’m crazy, which is okay I guess since they end up laughing!
7. What is your idea of fun?
Having a BBQ with friends and a lot of cold beers!
8. What is your pet hate?
People who complain about petty issues/problems they have when there are other people with much more greater problems than them.
9. What is the worst gift you have ever received?
A really, I mean really, ugly t-shirt!
10. What nationality are you and what do you love about your homeland?
I am Indian but since I was born in Africa I would say I am African. I love the wildlife and nature.
11. If you could change passports, what nationality would you choose and why?
I would change it to any first world country nationality then I could travel around the world without having to go through so many procedures!
12. If you could shout anyone to dinner, who would it be and why?
Anyone that I know simply because I am a good guy.
13. If you could holiday anywhere, where would you go?
Some beautiful island, located anywhere would be fine as long as there is good weather!
Zimbabweans descend on SilverDane
Customer Support Representative Extraordinaire
1. What is your earliest IT memory?
Playing games on my cousin’s Commodore computer, which used 5 1/4″ floppies. Fun times
2. What gadget or software can’t you live without?
As I have recently learnt after it was stolen, my laptop.
3. Do you prefer Mac or PC
Haven’t had a chance to fully experience MAC, so would have to say PC
4. What were you doing before you joined SilverDane?
Studying my Bachelors degree in IT
5. If you weren’t working in IT, what would you do?
If not in IT I would be in finance, I also have a Diploma in Accounting and have been in business for 10 years
6. What is something quirky about you?
I can say I’ve jumped off a bridge…..
7. What is your idea of fun?
Getting together with friends
8. What is your pet hate?
My pet hate is being taken advantage of
9. What is the worst gift you have ever received?
Don’t know, just appreciate all the gifts I’ve been given
10. What nationality are you and what do you love about your homeland?
Zimbabwean, love the life style and all my friends
11. If you could change passports, what nationality would you choose and why?
Well….right now I would say Australian, have come to like the place since I got here, but have always wondered what it would be like to have an American passport (American Dream)
12. If you could shout anyone to dinner, who would it be and why?
Wish I could shout all my friends. The more the merrier.
13. If you could holiday anywhere, where would you go?
Well I think I would really like to go on a Caribbean ship cruise, that way I get to visit more places and enjoy the luxury of the cruise.
Digging up data when litigation looms
A menacing email pops up in your inbox from a law firm, threatening litigation from a client you worked with years ago. The allegation is a typical ‘he said you said’ scenario. You want to make sure you didn’t say what he said you said, so you rush to the IT department, demanding they dig up this suspect email. Your demand it is in your inbox by the end of the work day. Mr Nerd’s response? A hearty laugh and a less than inspiring ‘I’ll see what I can do.’
You have almost worn out your fingerprints with all the desk tapping and pulled out the little hair you had left on your head, putting off the lawyers and their steady stream of emails, reminding you of your encroaching deadline to deliver on the ‘he said you said’ evidence – like you could forget litigation was looming.
Two weeks later Mr Nerd sends you the email you were after. Trouble is, it doesn’t really clear up whether you said what he said you said and you need the email trail to be sure. Mr Nerd says ‘You’re dreaming’ but he still diligently goes back to hunt down the rest of the suspect emails. Two months later he’s found some but not all of them. So where are they? How hard can it be to dig up a few emails?
The answer is: very difficult if you have a poor archive system and impossible if you don’t archive your emails at all. Because the email evidence you need to prove your case has gone missing in a data black hole, you have no choice but to hold up your hands in defeat and shell out tens of thousands of dollars you don’t have to your former client to avoid a court case. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
Let me paint you another scenario. The menacing email from the lawyer still arrives in your inbox, you still rush to the IT department, but instead of Mr Nerd giving you a less than inspiring response he confidently says ‘Sure thing. I’ll have it to you by the end of the day.’ You go back to your desk to focus on the other business of the day and long before you’ve even thought about clocking off, your email evidence is in your inbox. You think the full email trail will help to prove your innocence and ask the IT team to dig it up. First thing the next morning, it’s in your inbox- along with a link and instructions on how to look for further emails yourself. Too easy!
What is the difference between these two scenarios? Email archiving. A good email archive manages your companies email files and is a vital tool in ensuring you are compliant with current legislation or just protected from would be troublemakers. The software integrates seamlessly with your email server and safely and efficiently files away all of your electronic information while freeing up space on your servers.
We are living in an age of litigation and only the naïve would assume they will never have to retrieve electronic communications for a legal case. We are confident that if you take the time and invest in a good email archiving system, you will be able to retrieve data within hours or even minutes, saving critical time if you are faced with litigation.
We’d love to know:
Why did you decide to archive your email? If you’re not archiving at the moment, what are you reasons for not archiving?
Want to know more? Find out about SD Archive and how it can help your business manage your email.
Sources:
http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/definition/e-mail-archiving
Evidentiary quality discovery data for legal purposes
When you archive your email with SilverDane’s SD Archive, all messages are tamper proof, and before they are even captured there is the retention guarantee that they will make it to the archive. Secure chains of custody are maintained throughout the entire lifecycle of the message, with full audit trails of who is searching for the item, viewing it and working with it.
The result is email data to support the most demanding legal requirements. In fact, SilverDane’s power as an eDiscovery and litigation hold tool has been used intrinsically in hundreds of legal discoveries and has been tested in courts in countries all around the world.
A lot of organizations now are required to demonstrate that they have policies and practises in place to prove they are “doing the right things and have the audit trail to prove it”
The law is becoming tougher and tougher on the “we can’t find it” argument.
“By now, it should be abundantly clear that the duty to preserve means what it says and that a failure to preserve records — paper or electronic — and to search in the right places for those records, will inevitably result in the spoliation of evidence.” The Pension Comm. of Univ. of Montreal Pension Plan et al v. Banc of America Securities, LLC, et al., 05 Civ. 9016 (S.D.N.Y. 2010).
A finding of spoliation can lead to:
• Sanctions – fines / penalties
• Adverse inference instruction to jury
• Reversal of burdens of proof
• Dismissal of claims or defenses
• Ultimate loss of the case (monetary judgment, injunctive relief, loss of IP, etc)
• Damaged reputation
Spoliation can result even when the judgement goes in your favour. It is not enough to be in the right, you have to be able to prove it.
SD Archive has been designed to help you achieve this.
SilverDane Integrates with your GroupWise Strategy
We know GroupWise.
Our team have been working with GroupWise since before it was GroupWise, in multiple roles, from teaching it as CNI’s to migrating to it (and from it) as CNE’s, in organizations with 100 to 100,000 users, to participating intrinsically in BETA testing new releases as Novell’s fabulous GroupWise product development team churned out yet another release of the worlds most secure email system.
We know GroupWise……
………….. and we know the people who love it, and why they love it.
When we sat down around a board room table with a white board and what we thought were white board makers 6 years ago, there was an outrageous air of excitement about us.
Ice castles & polar bears- the highlights of being Canadian
Meet Mat Langner, our newest Java Software Engineer. When he’s not working, he’s riding his pet polar bear… or so he says. Check out his Top 13.
1. What is your earliest IT memory?
Watching thick white plumes of smoke rise out of my MacIntosh SE as the screen slowly faded away. I believe it was an omen from the Gods of IT.
2. What gadget or software can’t you live without?
I, like the rest of humanity, owe a great debt of gratitude to the immortal Microsoft Excel.
3. Do you prefer Mac or PC?
Neither. I only prefer computers that let me digitize myself into them.
4. What were you doing before you joined SilverDane?
Drifting through limbo….
5. If you weren’t working in IT, what would you do?
Psychic Assassin.
6. What is something quirky about you?
I work with a man who enjoys bubble baths.
7. What is your idea of fun?
Weaving baskets for local farmer’s markets.
8. What is your pet hate?
Celebrities with political opinions.
9. What is the worst gift you have ever received?
A handful of garbage.
10. What nationality are you and what do you love about your homeland?
Canadian…..EH! I love living inside my giant ice castle and riding my polar bear across the arctic wastes of Alberta.
11. If you could change passports, what nationality would you choose and why?
Jamaican…..So I could be a Rastafarian.
12. If you could shout anyone to dinner, who would it be and why?
I’d invite three people….Rambo, Jean Luc Picard, and Heather Graham…..for obvious reasons.
13. If you could holiday anywhere, where would you go?
Mars.
Join us at Brainshare 2011
Haven’t got your ticket for BrainShare 2011? Feeling left out?
We can help with a free pass to giveaway!
Just ‘like’ our Facebook page to be in the running- it’s that simple! Check out www.facebook.com/silverdane
Entries close Thursday October 6 and the winner will be announced on Friday October 7. The lucky winner can collect their pass at registration.
BrainShare will be held in Salt Lake City,UT, from October 10-14.
Disclaimer:
This promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Facebook.
Information provided in this promotion will remain the property of SilverDane Corporation and not Facebook.
The prize includes a BrainShare entry pass only and SilverDane Corporation will not be responsible for any other costs involved in attending BrainShare.
Excitement builds for BrainShare 2011
It’s that time of year again and we’re counting down the sleeps to this year’s BrainShare… it just might be the best yet!
We think this year’s event is particularly important, given the major changes at Novell this year with its sale to Attachmate. We have high expectations that Attachmate will do a great job at refocusing and reinvigorating Novell. The future looks bright for those loyal customers who have stuck by Novell.
We’ve had a stellar year so far at SilverDane HQ, and are in the final stages of wrapping up a 22,000 user SD Archive deployment for GroupWise. What a job!
Our operations have expanded exponentially so far in 2011, resellers are fielding plenty of queries and our research and product development is busier than it has ever been getting SD Archive ready for Novell’s latest release of GroupWise (codenamed Ascot) and implementing our new look and feel for both SD MeetMe and SD Archive. We are all buzzing with excitement about these changes!
We love any chance we get to visit the US of A and can’t wait to meet up with our customers, see our old Novell friends and make new ones from around the world.
If you’re interested in knowing more about SD Archive and MeetMe or just want to chat with an Aussie lass, an English chap or a Swede, Taryn, Adrian and Henrik would love to meet you. Drop by the SilverDane booth 700, next to the information counter.
BrainShare is held this year in Salt Lake City, Utah, from October 10-14.
