As I work with companies to evaluate how to leverage archiving, email is top of mind. Many go on to research, choose and implement an email archiving and journaling solution. They enable the ediscovery functionality, and their legal counsels are using the tools. No doubt, email archiving provides a number of compelling benefits, including active [...]

One of the questions we’re asked all the time is whether customers should implement software or hardware dedupe in their data protection environments. It’s a good question, and as with most good questions, the answer is simple: it depends. “Gee, thanks!” You say. Well, the truth is that it really does. It’s even worse than [...]

Most of my day is spent helping customers research, choose, and implement an email archiving and journaling solution. Once in place, email archiving solutions provide organizations with a number of notable benefits, including the ability to: Actively move messages off the mail server and into the archive, reducing the storage requirements on those servers. Capture [...]

So you are well on your way to researching an archiving solution to implement in your organization , and the sales guy asks, “are you going to journal your email?” a few seconds and a few head scratches later you reply, “I am already planning to archive, why do I need to journal too?”  Don’t [...]

We’ve all received messages from our IT departments stating that our mailboxes are approaching the company-defined quotas, and that we must “clean” our mailboxes to reduce their size. So what do we do? We can selectively delete messages that we “think” we don’t need, then of course Murphy’s Law kicks in and we need to [...]

We never seem to have enough space. I keep talking about the good old days when I did this or that, and it’s starting to make me feel like an old codger. But, there’re lessons to be learned in what we did before. So, let me tell you another story. Back in the day, disk [...]

All tech becomes obsolete at some point. I’ve had the pleasure of discussing IT with CIOs across a number of industries for many years. Surprisingly, only a few of them have told me that they worry about exit strategies for their technology. As simple as it might sound, at some point, all technology becomes obsolete. [...]

Microsoft Exchange 2010 was originally released in late 2009. In August 2010, SP1 was released, representing Microsoft’s first offering of an archiving product. Probably the most talked about feature of Exchange 2010 is the ability to create personal archives. I often get asked whether another archive solution is needed given Microsoft’s release of their archiving [...]

Greetings, friend. I’m Datalink Staff Engineer Rick Shangle, and I am pleased to have this opportunity to yammer with you via Datalink’s blogtwittertubesystem. What is a Datalink staff engineer? I’m basically one of our CIOs private engineers. That currently means doing intellectual property work for the company’s various technical groups – field engineering, customer support, and [...]