Top three issues facing legal counsel, CIO policy challenges and intelligent collection

March 6, 2008

Focus, we say let’s focus on your industry and what we know can be destroyed. Each client carries different requirements and regulations. For example, the Financial Services industry is regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The SEC establishes rules for all financial services companies’ business and communication process. In 2000 they required all financial services companies to retain communications between broker-dealers under the 17a-4 for a period of seven (7) years.

Autonomy, Google and Microsoft battle for SaaS eMail Archiving

March 4, 2008

Autonomy/Zantaz, Microsoft/Fortiva and Google/Postini are three SaaS based archiving solutions you should evaluate if you are considering hosted email archiving and eDiscovery for Microsoft Exchange. Since Microsoft/Fortiva does not support Lotus Notes Domino, you should limit your research to Autonomy and Google if you also require Lotus Notes Domino support. Autonomy’s Zantaz was founded on the premise of SaaS archiving for Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes Domino, whereas Google/Postini started offering it in 2006. Google acquired Postini in 2007 and added significant support and data center services to support their growing Enterprise customer base.

Educating Legal and IT, difficult questions for CIOs and intelligent collection

March 3, 2008

We try to help our clients understand as much about IT data storage as it is required to make quantitative and qualitative decisions about their case. We are also helping them understand the difference between technology solutions; a good analogy is the difference between a sprinkler system and individual extinguishers for fire suppression.

Fortiva focuses on security and search to drive retrieval of hosted enterprise archive data

February 28, 2008

Fortiva identifies security and flexible search as two key elements in the product line. Security is a critical component in any Software as a Servie (SaaS) offering. When all the data is stored off site with another company, encryption is your last bastion of hope against would be thieves, privacy violations, etc.

Forensic acquisition of blogs, bridging the legal and IT gap with synchronized policies

February 26, 2008

At first they seem disconnected by language used by legal versus language used by IT. In many cases, the technologies are in place to affect policy, but having a good moderator in place is required. At Applied Discovery, we spend time with our clients helping them bridge those policies to the technologies. There are cases where a policy needs to be revisited so technology can be enacted.

Fortiva was the obvious choice for Dell, but not financially relevant

February 25, 2008

Fortiva would have been a better option for Dell (NYSE:DELL), had Fortiva been local to the Austin area. According to Praising Gaw, VP of Marketing at Fortiva, they maintain a good business relationship with Microsoft as the sole provider for Microsoft Business Productivity Infrastructure Online Services for Enterprises. Since Dell also values a good relationship with Microsoft, why didn’t Dell Computer Corporation nurture the Fortiva relationship? One obvious answer is there weren’t any vested interests in Fortiva, by Dell Computer Corporation or the Dell family.

Twitter and Federal Rules of Evidence 803(1) and 803(2), hearsay exceptions

February 20, 2008

Once you understand the basic premise, it’s simple to see that all sorts of information can be posted to twitter about internal activities or personal matters, in the case of civil litigation. For example, several cases related to health insurance, child custody, etc have been fought or are being fought based on information found in My Space and Facebook. Consequences of twitting on twitter should be similar to existing social media, but twitter won’t be subject to hearsay based on FRCP 803(1) and 803(2).

Dell saves their investment in MessageOne at the best possible moment

February 19, 2008

Considering competitive forces from Google, Autonomy and a fleeting partnership with Iron Mountain, it was in Michael Dell’s best interest to save his investment and reel in MessageOne. Moreover, with all the storage activity going on at Dell, the acquisition could propel the MessageOne services to equal footing in the enterprise with Google, making the $12 annual fee for MessageOne a bargain for Dell related technologies.

Category: Electronic Discovery

Top three issues facing legal counsel, CIO policy challenges and intelligent collection

Autonomy, Google and Microsoft battle for SaaS eMail Archiving

Educating Legal and IT, difficult questions for CIOs and intelligent collection

Fortiva focuses on security and search to drive retrieval of hosted enterprise archive data

Forensic acquisition of blogs, bridging the legal and IT gap with synchronized policies

Fortiva was the obvious choice for Dell, but not financially relevant

Twitter and Federal Rules of Evidence 803(1) and 803(2), hearsay exceptions

Dell saves their investment in MessageOne at the best possible moment

Breakfast at LegalTech, serendipity or stupidity?

Three applications for Microsoft® Exchange® Server EDB and PST exploration

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