Debunking the data migration myths API email archive migration providers like TransVault live by Nobody will tell you that migration is easy. In fact, for many, moving your on-premises data to the cloud with API based migration providers like TransVault is a costly, time-consuming, and downright painful process. How did we get here? The downtime, the spiraling fees, and the lack of compliance? Why can’t cloud migration be as you would expect: fast, non-disruptive, cost-effective, and compliant?

Back in 2003, a new technology company was founded in Santa Clara, California, providing “information immediacy, discovery and continuity for the new generation of critical enterprise information.” That company was Mimosa Systems.

Why you should turn on Office 365 archiving for your business (and how to make the most of it if you already have). 

Could your SourceOne archives be delivering more value to your business? 

What is Exchange Journaling, why do we need it and what are the alternatives? Exchange Journaling has been the backbone of corporate compliance for decades. You probably already use if for eDiscovery or to aid internal investigations and audits by your security and HR teams and know how crucial it is in enabling your business to comply with a wide range of regulations.  If your organization is currently or planning to Journal in Office 365, check out our email Journaling in Office 365 guide. Want to learn more about Exchange Journaling in Azure? Talk to one of our experts.

Now’s the time to unlock value from your Enterprise Vault archives Wouldn’t it be great if your email and file archives did more for your business than just sit on a server costing you money?

Using Watson AI, data lakes and user generated emails and files, IBM predicts when employees are going to quit IBM has 350,000 employees and they announced last month they can predict with 95% accuracy when one of their people is going to leave. Not only is this a powerful use case for IBM’s Watson Artificial Intelligence, it’s incredible advantage for their business. IBM is in a war for talent against Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Google and hot tech start-ups. Predicting when employees will leave helps them proactively retain top talent and smoothly manage out under-performing team members. 

You Can Check-in, But Can’t Check-out Your company owns a great deal of data. Not just “records” but huge amounts of unstructured content, proprietary data such as intellectual property, and sensitive customer and employee personal information (PI).

Companies continue to struggle with the ever-growing mountains of data flowing into and out of their systems. Gone are the days of manually filing a couple of hard-copy records per day. Now, information workers send and receive on the average 50 MB (or more) of data per day. The sheer data volume of employees must deal with cause numerous issues, including what data to keep and delete, how to secure sensitive data, ensuring data privacy for customers and employees, and providing accurate and streamlined litigation response.

Does your organization utilize Office 365 for email? Is your organization required to journal email for compliance, legal, or business requirements? Do your Attorneys complain about the time it takes to find information for an eDiscovery request? If the answer is yes to any of these questions, then keep reading.

With the rising popularity of cloud computing and Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions, data sovereignty issues have become a greater focus and risk for Chief regulatory Officers (CRO) and General Counsels (GC). Data sovereignty is a country-specific requirement that data is subject to the laws of the country in which it is collected or processed and must remain within its borders. Many countries have had these laws for decades, and new privacy laws such as the GDPR are only making them more prominent. For example, countries like Russia, China, Germany, France, Indonesia, and Vietnam (to name a few) require that their citizen’s data must be stored on physical servers within the country’s borders. They argue that it’s in the government’s and their citizen’s interest to protect personal information against any misuse, especially outside of the country’s jurisdiction.