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After responses to an RFP have been received, enterprises considering email archiving platforms need a way to compare potential solutions. Use this RFP scoring tool to record and evaluate features across vendors.

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The email archiving market is a highly fragmented market, with many vendors that are strong in specific areas. Organizations have different needs depending on their industry and geographical location, and are struggling to reconcile their...

Vendor Research

Recent enhancements made to Symantec's Partner Program show the company's predilection towards specialized and focused expertise from partners, over basic revenue achievement. Current and prospective partners must understand how these changes...

IT budgets are tight and implementing solutions to achieve total compliance can be costly and cumbersome. IT departments need a "light and lean" way of dealing with these issues until justification can be made for comprehensive solutions.

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The e-mail archiving market is a confusing mixture of storage vendors, compliance and e-discovery vendors, security vendors, and e-mail platform vendors. To complicate matters further, deployment options include on-premise, on-demand, and even...

Electronic evidence is now a major deciding factor in court cases. Understand the mechanics of e-discovery prior to the acquisition or implementation of records management and archiving solutions to avoid wasting money on an unnecessary or...

(14-Feb-10) Like it or not, email outages are a business reality. A recent ApplicationContinuity.org survey revealed that, despite advances in data-backup, archiving and protection technology, companies of all sizes remain vulnerable to costly...

Template/Policy

This template provides enterprises with a measuring-stick against which to weigh existing policy, as well as a foundation for new enterprises designing this policy for the first time. Download and modify this document to suit enterprise needs.

Managing storage space is a never-ending battle that must be won. When faced with diminishing network storage space, it's best to clean up before building out. One of the most challenging tasks faced by IT is creating a balance between user...

By introducing spin-down technology on their storage arrays, EMC and Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) have reignited interest in MAIDs (Massive Array of Inactive Disks). While there were some performance concerns with first-generation MAIDs, the...

While Instant Messaging (IM) is widely used as a collaborative tool, if its entry into the environment was entirely employee-driven, important business considerations might have been overlooked in the process. Even if informal IM usage is...

Falling e-mail archiving prices enable small enterprises to take a better posture towards a legal environment that looks ever closer at electronic evidence. Identify business drivers and build an implementation strategy, then use these to...

Enterprises approach e-mail archiving for a variety of reasons. A successful e-mail archiving implementation depends largely on defining those reasons and ensuring the solution meets the needs. Identify drivers and use these to state business...

Before investigating e-mail archiving solutions, IT leaders need to establish the enterprise's e-mail archiving strategy. IT leaders must think through these questions to guide vendor selection.

Microsoft Exchange is the clear leader in the on-premises e-mail server market. But, competitors provide advantages in simplicity, price, functionality, and hardware requirements. Evaluate vendors discussed in this note when considering e-mail...

E-mail archiving adoption should trigger an evaluation of existing e-mail acceptable use policies. Enterprises should establish a clear, explicit understanding with employees as to the level of confidentiality, acceptable uses, and retention...

Avoid lawsuits, penalties, and misunderstandings by clearly defining acceptable use of e-mail for both employees and the enterprise. Define retention periods, set privacy expectations, and ban unacceptable practices.

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The PACS Administrator's role is to perform all related activities for supporting the hospital's Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS). This includes preparing images for digital archiving and assuring the quality control of medical...

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The Corporate Librarian's role is to manage and maintain all company-owned information resources and associated content. This includes ensuring that the storing, archiving, and taxonomical layout of information resources are consistent across...