In April, Microsoft announced that Exchange 2010 will have built-in support for archiving. But it’s not clear to many what capabilities Microsoft will provide. This Ferris Research webcast and a companion white paper shed light on the new offering. Topics include what the product’s archiving features do, what they don’t do, and what the ongoing role of third-party archiving vendors will be.... read more »
On June 30, 2009, Unify announced that it had completed the acquisition of AXS-One. This report assesses the transaction.... read more »
In September 2004, Veritas Software purchased KVS for its email archiving product, Enterprise Vault. Veritas merged with Symantec, and thus the product is now Symantec’s Enterprise Vault, the market-leading archiving software. In this webcast, we discuss the Veritas/KVS acquisition with key individuals involved. Topics include KVS’s history, KVS’s motivations for being acquired, Veritas’ motivations for the acquisition, how the negotiations took place, the terms of the transaction, what went well, what was more difficult than anticipated, and lessons learned.... read more »
On April 16, 2009, application solutions vendor Unify announced it would acquire records management and archiving company AXS-One in an all-stock deal. In this webcast, we discuss the merger with Unify’s CEO, Todd Wille. Topics include AXS-One’s business and technology, Unify’s business and technology, a financial summary of both companies, the nature of the synergism, the terms of the deal, and the challenges to a successful outcome.... read more »
The severe global recession has made it difficult for emerging companies to raise money. The number of fundings is roughly half its normal rate, and valuations are down. In this webcast, several messaging companies that recently completed a funding round discuss their experience. ... read more »
David Ferris, Richi Jennings, and other Ferris Research analysts gaze into their crystal balls and present their predictions for 2009, focusing on the worlds of messaging and collaboration, content control, archiving, compliance, e-discovery, and data leak prevention. ... read more »
In this webcast, Ferris Research analyst Richi Jennings and Unison Technologies CMO Rurik Bradbury discuss the total cost of ownership (TCO) of Microsoft’s approach to unified communications. You learn how to model and estimate unified communications costs in your own environment. The event concludes with a Q&A session.... read more »
In this webcast, Ferris senior analyst David Ferris and Mimecast’s Senior Vice President and General Manager, Mary Kay Roberto, discuss the strengths and challenges of hosted and on-premise approaches to email archiving. Mary Kay and David Goldberg, Mimecast’s Director of Sales Engineering, also briefly explain their company’s SaaS offering. The event concludes with a Q&A period.... read more »
On Wednesday, Oct 8, 2008, Symantec announced it will acquire MessageLabs. This webcast discusses key aspects of the acquisition, including price paid, price/sales revenues, and similar key valuation statistics; comparable transactions; how the sale took place; implications for MessageLabs competitors; and possible negatives/concerns about the acquisition. The event includes a Q&A period.... read more »
In this recurring event, David Ferris introduces three new or newish vendors that he finds interesting or innovative in the overlapping fields of messaging, compliance, e-discovery, and content control. Each vendor’s speaker briefly describes the company’s business; then David and the speaker discuss the business and its industry context. This event looks at Clearswift’s IMAGEmanager, for image detection within email; Isode’s M-Box Gateway, a POP-to-IMAP email gateway that gives end users IMAP (push) access to POP email accounts; and Keibi Technologies’ platform for analyzing and categorizing user generated content.... read more »
In this webinar, Ferris analyst Richi Jennings and Sina Miri of PostPath map the landscape for Exchange alternatives. Sina also discusses how PostPath can help. The webinar concludes with a Q&A period.... read more »
In-house and external legal teams understand that IT now has an important role in e-discovery, but the details of the role are often unclear. In this webinar, Ferris analyst David Ferris and Fritz Mueller of MetaLINCS discuss IT’s role and how general counsel can optimize its relationship with IT. ... read more »
Litigation today requires that substantial amounts of electronic information be exchanged between the parties. Early on, the litigants must get together for a Meet and Confer session. In this webinar, Ferris analyst David Ferris and Mark Reichenbach of MetaLINCS explain what to do to be prepared for this session.... read more »
Litigation today requires the parties to exchange and process substantial amounts of electronically stored information. General counsel, IT, and user departments are heavily involved. In this webinar, Ferris analyst David Ferris and Mark Reichenbach of MetaLINCS discuss the most important things to get right during electronic discovery. ... read more »
This press conference by Ferris and Abaca Technology Corporation addresses a number of issues relating to the proliferation of spam.... read more »
Organizations vary considerably with regard to their policies on how long to retain electronic information before deleting it. In this webinar, we discuss laws and regulations that affect retention policy, internal corporate policies and other things to consider when determining retention policy, how to define a retention policy, the main retention policies in place today, and how retention policies are changing.... read more »
Corporate policies on what electronic material should be archived are in a state of flux. In this webinar, we discuss the pros and cons of archiving a given piece of electronic information, current thinking on what electronic information should and should not be archived, the reasons for these policies, and how archiving policies are evolving.... read more »
In this webinar, Ferris analyst Richi Jennings and Scott Young of Ensim discuss the current state of mobile messaging support and how it is likely to evolve. Scott also presents Ensim’s automated provisioning system and explains how it simplifies mobile device support.... read more »
In this webinar, Ferris Research senior analyst David Ferris and RPost CEO Zafar Khan discuss the state of electronic agreement confirmation and how it is evolving. Khan also presents RPost’s solution for electronic signature, electronic contracting, and legal proof of email delivery and content. The event concludes with a Q&A period.... read more »
In this webinar, Ferris Senior Analyst David Ferris and Mark Reichenbach, Vice President of Client and Industry Development at MetaLINCS, discuss Rule 26(f) of the U.S. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP), which define procedures for U.S.-based litigation. They discuss what FRCP 26(f) covers, how organizations should respond, and IT’s role. Chuck Williams, MetaLINCS CTO, presents MetaLINCS’ e-discovery software. ... read more »
In this webinar, Ferris Senior Analyst David Ferris and Ron Robbins, Product Manager for Archiving Solutions at Quest, discuss storage management problems, the technology challenges for vendors, and key trends. Robbins also presents Quest’s email archiving technology.... read more »
In this webinar, Ferris Senior Analyst David Ferris and George Tziahanas, Vice President of Solutions for Orchestria, discuss what classification is, the main drivers for classification, the main classification approaches, the various vendors doing classification, technological challenges, and key trends. Tziahanas also presents Orchestria’s classification technology. ... read more »
In this webinar, leading e-discovery vendors concisely present their solutions, their main competitors, their key competitive strengths, and what they see as the key trends in e-discovery. ... read more »
In this webinar, Amir Lev, CTO of Commtouch, a leading provider of email security technology, and Ferris Analyst Richi Jennings explain and review the latest reputation technologies: RBLs, email accreditation, reputation aggregators, domain vs. URL reputation, and dynamic reputation filtering. The webinar also introduces Commtouch’s GlobalView Reputation Service and highlights its benefits for both mail and Web security. ... read more »
In this webinar, some of the leading vendors in the email content control market present their solutions and their key competitive strengths. ... read more »
In this webinar, participants learn the main differences between leading email archiving products. Several email archiving vendors concisely present their solution, its key strengths, and unique selling propositions. A Q&A session moderated and interpreted by a Ferris analyst follows.... read more »
In this webinar, participants learn the main differences between leading email archiving products. Several email archiving vendors concisely present their solution, its key strengths, and unique selling propositions. A Q&A session moderated and interpreted by a Ferris analyst follows.... read more »
In this webinar, MailChannels CEO Ken Simpson describes his studies of spammer behavior and explains how spammers’ impatience can be used for spam suppression. He also introduces MailChannel’s traffic-shaping product, Traffic Control. Ferris Senior Analyst Nick Shelness provides commentary.... read more »
This webinar consists of short presentations from companies with interesting, promising and innovative technology.... read more »
In this webinar, Ferris Research presents the findings of its Exchange 2007 Exchange Implementation Survey. We also hear from industry experts who have worked hands-on with Exchange 2007.... read more »
In this webinar, industry experts look at the hows and whys of sender authentication.... read more »
Ferris Research presents its view of the main issues for email support staff during 2007. We also discuss other, emerging issues that are likely to become major concerns by 2012.... read more »
In this webinar, industry experts and messaging managers present their perspective on effective email archiving and usage policies. Topics include identifying resources for policy development, determining policy needs, implementation, communication, training, and monitoring.... read more »
This free webinar focuses on participating companies’ recent efforts to: 1) reduce the perceived pain of employing secure email and 2) overcome the growing hostility, engendered by malware, to the use of email for secure communication.... read more »
This free event consists of short presentations from interesting new companies with promising and innovative technology. Ferris Research Senior Analysts David Ferris and Nick Shelness comment on each of the technologies and then moderate a general discussion session.... read more »