May 19, 2012

10 Key Considerations for Email Archiving

Email archiving has been a professional focus of mine for a while now, and I’ve previously written and spoken about the “eleven essential elements“.  So when TechTarget asked for an article for Storage magazine, I had a good well to draw on.  The latest issue of Storage magazine includes this article, titled “10 Key Considerations for [...]

Download Storage Decisions Presentations

Whether you were at the show or missed it, most of the presentations from Storage Decisions in Chicago are now available for download.  These can be a great resource for internal communication and strategy – share the insights from the show to help make a case for change! Most of the sessions were worthwhile, but [...]

Justifying Email Archiving

Now that my TechTarget Virtual Seminar on email archiving is finished, I wanted to share the questions and answers from the session here.  You will eventually be able to catch a recorded version of the presentation on TechTarget’s searchexchange.com site, and I’ll post when it’s out. Interestingly, most questions revolved around justifying the purchase of [...]

Email Archiving: Just Can’t Get Enough

One of the surest of sure things in the storage industry right now is the potential for email archiving solutions.  There are literally dozens of products out there, with prices and functionality for pretty much any application.  And the growing demand for letigation hold and search has made this an essential technology for any organization [...]

Chicago in May? Perfect for Storage Virtualization and Email Archiving Talks!

Ever been to the TechTarget Storage Decisions conference?  It’s my favorite trade show, since it’s totally focused on end users – instead of being a product showcase, Storage Decisions is all about what real people need to do with their enterprise storage infrastructure.  Sure, there’s lots of technical product talk, but none of the speakers [...]

Key Technical Differences Between Email Archiving Products?

I’m working on a new feature article for Storage Magazine focused on selecting an enterprise email archiving product.  This is something I’ve done quite a bit of work around, so I decided to redirect it into a “bride magazine” type “ten things to look for” item.  If you too know about the field of email [...]

How Long Should Companies Retain Email?

One of the key questions asked of me in my current position at Contoural is this one: How long should we (the client company)  save our email messages?  Not surprisingly, I encounter a wide variety of answers to this question – Legal and IT usually wants a short retention time, while end users seem to [...]

Toot toot: Ten Tips For Smarter Email Archiving Whitepaper

The other day, I mentioned that a whitepaper I wrote for Quest Software was adapted into an article for Enterprise Systems Journal.  If you’d like to check out the original whitepaper, it is available online at Quest’s web site (registration required). I’m also putting together a list of all the articles and whitepapers I’ve written.  [...]

Toot Toot: Email Archiving e-Book Chapter 6

As I mentioned before, and again, I’ve been working with a team at Contoural on an e-Book for TechTarget on the topic of email archiving. Chapter 6, focused on running an RFP, was just published. This is sponsored by Symantec.  Go grab a copy for yourself!

Toot toot: Ten Tips For Smarter Email Archiving

Swing on over to Enterprise Systems Journal to check out an article I wrote with Ron Robbins of Quest Software on the top ten best practices for email archiving.  This was based on a whitepaper I wrote for Quest, and I’m pretty happy with how it came out.