October 15, 2007
Autonomy (News - Alert) Corporation has announced that version 6 of both its Enterprise Archive Product and Introspect software are now powered by IDOL. Autonomy Zantaz sells the Proactive Information Risk Management products.
Information Risk Management is "the act of mitigating the risks endemic to the everyday production of excess amounts of data through intelligent archiving, automated policy management and advanced eDiscovery," according to Autonomy officials.
The full spectrum of offerings include media restoration, consolidated archiving, advanced electronic data discovery, review, production, real-time policy management and analytics.
The entire spectrum is now based on one common platform -- Autonomy's Intelligent Data Operating Layer. IDOL automates the understanding and processing of all sources of operational information including e-mail, instant messages, files, applications, voice and video.
The explosion of unstructured information such as e-mails, documents, instant messaging, audio, video, blogs and Web pages, Autonomy officials believe, "has introduced new challenges and potential threats to organizations regarding business operations, regulations and litigation preparedness. Regulatory changes mandate that all electronic information is discoverable and therefore organizations are now required to apply retention policies to far more than just e-mail."
In the report "Abysmal: The State of Retention Management" (Forrester Research (News - Alert), Inc., July 2007), Barry Murphy writes that the gap between where organizations are today and where they should be is "enormous. As a result, eDiscovery costs are high and repetitive. But the days of stakeholders looking the other way as legal teams spend millions of dollars per month on eDiscovery are over."
Organizations are beginning due diligence on ways to more effectively conduct eDiscovery, and to better achieve overall information management, Murphy says: "In some cases these initiatives are led by IT, in other situations they are led by legal, and once in a while, they're led by the business. In reality, it must be a combined effort."
A couple months ago Zantaz said Northcliffe Media, a regional newspaper publisher in the UK, has chosen the Zantaz Enterprise Archive Solution to consolidate its 17 e-mail data centers into two, while migrating from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003.
The Zantaz product will also be used by Northcliffe Media for search and retrieval for electronic information and e-mails. The company also hopes to be able to clean up and reduce the size of its approximately 7,500 Microsoft (News - Alert) Exchange mailboxes across the company for its 4,500 full-time staff in 32 centers.
After the migration, Northcliffe Media will use EAS to "increase the efficiency of the company's knowledge management, document retention and electronic disclosure processes," company officials say, as well as optimize its data storage capacity by removing duplicated e-mails and compressing them into a consolidated near-line archive store, "thereby reducing the company's e-mail storage requirements by up to 50 per cent."
In addition, Zantaz EAS will allow Northcliffe Media to retrieve e-mail messages quickly, easing "the cost and time penalties associated with litigation," Zantaz officials say: "Efficient knowledge management and e-disclosure processes will help Northcliffe Media, should it be necessary to provide information as part of the legal process."