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Invitation to Email Museum Launch Webinar, Tuesday March 27

2012-03-26T13:40:00.000-07:00

Dear Person-I-Know, or Person-I-Used to Know!

I would like to invite you to the launch webinar for the Museum of Email & Digital Communications. This is tomorrow, Tuesday March 27, at 8.30am Pacific. To register, go here.

I hope it's of interest, and that you will be able to join us! More information follows.

All the best

David Ferris

David Ferris, Executive Curator The Museum of Email & Digital Communications david.ferris@email-museum.com Tel +1 415 367 3436 (US), +44 20 7558 8505 (UK)

Why the Museum?

We are alive at an extraordinary time. Digital communications, from email to social media, are profoundly changing many facets of our lives.

The record is still rich, and most of the innovators are still alive. We thus have a rare opportunity to document the birth of the computer-based communications era for posterity.

Enter The Museum of Email & Digital Communications, a free and open resource dedicated to recording and interpreting history's most transformative technological advances.

The Launch Webinar

On March 27 at 8.30am Pacific/11.30am Eastern/4.30pm UK/5.30pm Europe, founding members will hold a webinar introducing the museum and its work. You'll also learn how you can contribute content, and if you wish how to become a sponsor. Speakers include:

Curators David Ferris and David Sengupta. They explain the work of the museum, its current status, and a vision for its future. They also describe ways you can get involved with the museum, including creating content, and becoming a sponsor or curator
Kieron Dowling of Jatheon and Barney Haye of Transvault. They explain why they are sponsoring the project
Two contributors–Nigel Dutt (founder of KVS, makers of Enterprise Vault) and Ralph Ehlersof Roche (messaging architect for several large organizations, former chairman of EEMA user group). They discuss why they are contributing content to the museum

There will also be a 15 minute period reserved for Q&A at the end of the session.

Registration

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2011-03-15T09:17:00.001-07:00

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Apr 29, Daily Messaging, Collaboration, Compliance News

2010-04-29T12:02:00.000-07:00

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News on messaging, collaboration, and compliance ... email, spam and malware control, archiving, e-discovery, information leak prevention, unified communications, instant messaging, SharePoint, and mobile communications...

Daily Digest: April 29, 2010				about

Archiving, E-Discovery, & Compliance

Azaleos Survey Finds 44 Percent of Enterprises Plan to Migrate to Exchange 2010 in First 18 Months
Osterman Research Report Reveals Key Drivers are More Flexible Storage, Archiving, and Disaster Recovery Options
FRI Comment: Looks like useful data on plans to migrate to Exchange 2010

City of Vaughn Implements Cloud-Based Unlimited Mailbox for Email Archive and Retrieval
The city of Vaughn, Ontario has implemented the CGS Unlimited Mailbox solution to manage email archival and e-discovery. The system enables the city to achieve consistent email management and compliance practices citywide
FRI Comment: Local governments typically like to follow each other's lead. They merit being considered vertical marketing for many products/services

Barracuda Message Archiver Extends Beyond Email to Archive All Microsoft Exchange Items
New Capabilities Improve Storage Efficiency by Archiving Calendar Items, Contacts and Tasks
FRI Comment: Barracuda delivers high function at low costs. It's been very successful in this regard. Barracuda archiving puts further downward pressure on email archiving prices

Cisco Extends Security Leadership With Advances in Cloud Protection
Enhanced Web Reporting and Data-Loss Prevention for E-mail Build on Secure Borderless Network Architecture
FRI Comment: DLP makes sense, especially for compliance purposes. However, revenues hitherto have been poor. Good DLP in the cloud could be very valuable for certain types of compliance purposes, such as stopping confidential information being sent outside the firewall

Lucid8 Announces Industry's First Self-service Restore Capability for Microsoft Outlook
New Outlook snap-in allows end users to restore permanently deleted Exchange items directly from DELL EqualLogic’s storage platform. New DigiScope’s® direct integration with DELL EqualLogic’s Auto-Snapshot Manager for Exchange further simplifies restoration for IT Professionals and adds eDiscovery capabilities.
FRI Comment: Useful tool for Dell archiving users. Which reminds me, several months ago there were a lot of rumblings about unhappiness among Dell archiving customers--my sense is that although the company sort-of denied it, this reflected genuine problems in the customer base

Email, Messaging & Collaboration

Digital Sky Technologies to Acquire AOL’s ICQ Instant Messaging Service
FRI Comment: Sensible for AOL to get rid of ICQ, nice as it was. It never made sense for AOL to offer two instant messaging services

7Summits Gets Social With Jive Software
7Summits is the Premier Partner selected by Jive Software to support Jive’s Get Social Tour in both Chicago and Philadelphia. The Jive Get Social Tour brings together Jive’s top partners and industry-leading executives to lend insight into how businesses can achieve measurable benefits by changing how they engage with people inside and outside their company.

InformationWeek Analytics and Interop Announce 'Best of Interop' 2010 Award Winners in Nine Key Technology Categories

Industry Experts to Discuss Integrating Email Marketing With SAP CRM
Email Marketing with SAP CRM: Achieving Relevance, Deliverability and Scale

Mimecast Launches First Always-On Continuity Service for BlackBerry Smartphone Users
Mimecast provides uninterrupted email access to BlackBerry smartphones in the event of Exchange, BlackBerry Enterprise Server or Research In Motion Network Operation Centre (NOC) failure

European Organizations Achieve ISO 27001 Certification With Titus Labs
Secure information sharing offerings enable organizations to address and manage ISO 27001 requirements

Synchronica Completes Acquisition of Colibria's IMPS Instant Messaging Business

M86 Security Releases Enhancements to its Flagship Email Security Solution MailMarshal
M86 MailMarshal SMTP 6.8 Offers Enhanced Features for even Greater Protection against Unknown Malware Threats and Compatibility with the Latest Microsoft Operating Systems

Open-Xchange Introduces Simplified SaaS Partner Pricing
Open-Xchange simplified pricing for its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) e-mail and collaboration alternative to Microsoft Exchange.
FRI Comment: Hard to judge whether in general simple pricing vs many-different-options is better or worse. However, it's very attractive for users to have flat fees for storage, if that's possible

Djigzo for BlackBerry Now Automatically Encrypts All Email Sent to and from a BlackBerry Smartphone with S/MIME
Djigzo, a provider of open source email encryption products, today announced that support for the BlackBerry smartphone has been added to the company's email encryption gateway.
FRI Comment: It's a pity how the difficulty of implementing public key infrastructures has emasculated the promise of strong encryption. How such beauty can be sullied by technical details

MessageExport 1.5 Enhances the Email Export Capabilities of Microsoft Outlook
Encryptomatic LLC announced the release of MessageExport for Microsoft Outlook, version 1.5. MessageExport expands the ability of Outlook to export email messages and file attachments in a variety of formats, with a wide range of options for naming, copying and handling the messages.

About Ferris Research

Messaging. Collaboration. Compliance. Ferris Research analysts bring more experience in these areas than any other firm. Period.

Major areas of interest are email, spam and malware control, archiving, e-discovery, information leak prevention, unified communications, instant messaging, SharePoint, and mobile communications. We help:

IT staff evaluate, implement, and maintain these technologies
Vendors understand the marketplace and its technologies; explain their products or services to the marketplace; and find strategic partners, raise funds, or sell their company
Investors find and evaluate investment opportunities

We've been in business since 1990-longer than any other analyst firm in our field:

Clients include many of the world's largest organizations as well as computer vendors from major corporations to small startups.
We have published more than 200 formal reports and 1,100 short bulletins.
Our news service has approximately 10,000 readers and covers more than 2,000 highly specialized announcements annually.
Our research team shares many decades of experience in our core competencies.

In short, our technology and industry depth helps you understand today's products, where they've come from, where they're going, and their value.

Have news you want to share with us or product or interest area that you would like us to cover? Send press releases to releases@ferris.com.

Apr 28, Mainsoft's Notes/SharePoint Integration

2010-04-28T06:55:00.000-07:00

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Daily Digest: April 28, 2010			blog item(s)	about

Archiving, E-Discovery, & Compliance

New Email Archiving System Provides IT and Compliance Managers with Simplified Retention and Retrieval of Company Email
System Slashes the Email Recovery/Discovery Process from Days to Minutes; Provides Significant Storage Cost Savings
FRI Comment: Another new email archiving offering in an already crowded field. Based on a Linux box

Proofpoint Introduces its Next-Generation SaaS Email Security and Privacy Platform to the European Market, Featuring Powerful Data Loss Prevention and Encryption Enhancements
Proofpoint 6.1 Offers Multi-protocol Data Loss Prevention Features, Enhanced DLP Workflow and Reporting, Email Encryption Enhancements and Security and Performance Improvements

Leading Email Archiving Provider LiveOffice Reports Record Revenue in First Quarter
Rapidly Growing Partner Channel and LiveOffice Personal Archive Usage Spark Continued Growth
FRI Comment: LiveOffice is doing well. However, momentum releases such as this are rarely convincing, almost any company can produce factual snippets which vaguely suggest good news. In fact, I'd guess that in 50% of momentum releases, the company concerned is really going out of business

Bamboo and Apptix Partner to Extend Advanced Sharepoint Capabilities to the Cloud
Bamboo Web Parts will enable Apptix customers to accelerate the deployment of hosted SharePoint sites, and enhance team collaboration and productivity
FRI Comment: Apptix is a leading Exchange SaaS. It is now extending support to SharePoint. A good step, illustrative of the importance of SharePoint and of how adding SharePoint support is natural for many offerings

Titus Labs and Proofpoint Partner to Deliver Interoperable Email Classification, Email Security and DLP Solutions to Enterprise and Government Customers Worldwide
COTS interoperability for customers of Titus Labs email and document classification solutions with Proofpoint's SaaS and on-premises email security, DLP and email archiving solutions

Email, Messaging & Collaboration

Social Media Increases Revenue and Growth by 60 Percent
Business that used social media increased their revenue and growth by 60% versus 8% for business that did not use social media.

AppRiver Named Best of Interop 22010 Finalist
InformationWeek Analytics and Interop Las Vegas 2010 Select AppRiver to Compete for Best of Interop Honor

Cisco TelePresence Virtual Meeting Solution Launches in Kenya
Cisco's Nairobi Office Becomes First Business Premises in Kenya to Use Face-to-Face Cisco Meeting Solution to Bridge Distance and Reduce Travel Costs

ACT offers instant, self service conferencing to keep your workforce connected whatever nature throws at them!

SmrtGuard Releases Anti-Virus and Anti-Spam for BlackBerry Smartphones to Protect Business and Personal Data and Devices Against Mobile Security Threats
SmrtGuard, a leading smartphone security company for businesses and consumers, announced the addition of Anti-Virus and Anti-Spam protection to its SmrtGuard services for. These new anti-virus and anti-spam features complement SmrtGuard's full suite of mobile security services that include wireless data backup and restore, remote location tracking, remote data wipe and personal safety features.

Spiceworks Integrates Rackspace Cloud Email Services
More than 950,000 IT Professionals Are Now Able to Manage Rackspace Cloud Email via Spiceworks

Tungle and Plancast Partner to Bring Together Social Calendar Sharing & Scheduling
Plancast Users Can Now Broadcast Upcoming Plans with Integrated Tungle.me Access for Booking Meetings

123Together.com Helps SMBs Guard against Identity Theft with Hosted Email Encryption Cloud Service
123Together.com's Automated Email Encryption Service Ensures Small Businesses Can Quickly and Easily Comply with Government Regulations and Company-Based Email Security Policies for a Small Monthly Fee.

Kerio and Jump I.T. Drive Business Growth Through Email Collaboration and Communication
Jump I.T. fights for top sales honors among VARs in Canada, reaching Preferred Partner Status with Kerio Connect

Blog Item(s)
Mainsoft's Notes/SharePoint Integration Mainsoft's SharePoint Integrator for Lotus Notes is a useful way to make Notes work with SharePoint. For example, within Notes, you can: Access and publish emails and documents on SharePoint, without having to switch applications. Collaborate on documents using Sametime. Send document links rather than attachments, reducing email storage. Update document fields to comply with SharePoint taxonomy and governance requirements. Tap into the enterprise social network on SharePoint to collaborate with colleagues or find people (the beta will be available in Q2). Manage SharePoint team events from an integrated Lotus Notes calendar view. Comments: Notes customers want to implement a shared workspace environment. In early 2008, it seemed the way to go was with Lotus' Quickr offering. However, Microsoft SharePoint has become the mainstream shared workspace platform, so many Notes users prefer to use this instead of Quickr. ... David Ferris (Comments?)
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About Ferris Research

Messaging. Collaboration. Compliance. Ferris Research analysts bring more experience in these areas than any other firm. Period.

IT staff evaluate, implement, and maintain these technologies
Vendors understand the marketplace and its technologies; explain their products or services to the marketplace; and find strategic partners, raise funds, or sell their company
Investors find and evaluate investment opportunities

We've been in business since 1990-longer than any other analyst firm in our field:

Clients include many of the world's largest organizations as well as computer vendors from major corporations to small startups.
We have published more than 200 formal reports and 1,100 short bulletins.
Our news service has approximately 10,000 readers and covers more than 2,000 highly specialized announcements annually.
Our research team shares many decades of experience in our core competencies.

In short, our technology and industry depth helps you understand today's products, where they've come from, where they're going, and their value.

Have news you want to share with us or product or interest area that you would like us to cover? Send press releases to releases@ferris.com.