Archiving and eDiscovery Community Blog

The Archiving and eDiscovery Community Blog is the perfect place to share short, timely insights including product tips, news and other information relevant to the Enterprise Vault and eDiscovery products. Any authenticated Connect member can contribute to this blog.

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    Updated: Anjeli Singh 10 Jun 2012

    Participate in shaping Enterprise Vault

      Symantec would like to get your feedback on how we can improve the existing Enterprise Vault to make it easier for you. We are looking for EV administrators who are willing to share thier Enterprise Vault related day to day activities with us. The research study will start on 18th June and continue till 18th July. The study will be conducted entirely online, and you will be able to participate at your own schedule from your home or office by writing 10 to 15 minutes diary entries. All of your responses will be kept confidential and will only be used for research purposes. Participants who complete all the assigned activities across the 4 week period will receive a $300 gift card. You are free to stop participating at any time but you will not receive payment unless you complete all the assigned activities across the entire 4 week period. Next step – If you are an...
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    Created: Stephanie Guaman 03 Nov 2011

    We'd love to learn more about how you found the Education information you were looking for!

    Please take a second to take our poll. Thanks! -Stephanie on behalf of the Symantec Education team
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    Updated: Caren Havelock 27 May 2011

    Autonomy Acquires Iron Mountain Digital; Evaluating Alternatives

    On May 16, 2011, Autonomy announced that they are acquiring Iron Mountain Digital (IMD) assets including: NearPoint technology gained from acquiring Mimosa Systems Hosted Digital Record Center for Compliant Messaging E-Discovery Suite, including products and solutions gained from acquiring Stratify   Per the press release, the acquisition did not include the Iron Mountain Technology escrow service, Medical Archive services and other smaller operations that were recently shut down by Iron Mountain. The transaction is expected to close in July 2011 and is subject to customary closing conditions.   Does this affect you?   We would like to take this opportunity to invite IMD and Autonomy customers to migrate to Symantec solutions, and avoid the uncertainties and/or product...
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    Created: tbarassi 19 May 2011

    Symantec signs Definitive Agreement to acquire market Leading eDiscovery vendor Clearwell Systems

    Big news today on the archiving and eDiscovery front with Symantec’s  announcement that we have signed a definitive agreement to acquire Clearwell  Systems. The combination of Symantec’s market leading Enterprise Vault integrated content archive and Clearwell’s market leading eDiscovery platform will position Symantec as a full service solution for enterprise information management and eDiscovery.  We also congratulate Clearwell on their recent “leader” rating in Gartner’s just released eDiscovery Magic Quadrant http://www.clearwellsystems.com/ediscovery-news/pr..., and we are excited at the prospect of having their exceptionally talented team join Symantec. Please see this site for further details: ...
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    Created: pfavro 03 May 2011

    Anchoring Information Governance with Enterprise Vault 10

    Is your organization struggling to manage stockpiles of data?  Have you run out of storage space for your back-up tapes?  These are telltale signs that your organization needs to overhaul its approach to information governance. The anchor for successful information governance is Symantec Enterprise Vault 10.  The latest version of Enterprise Vault will help organizations reduce data stockpiles, decrease operation expenses and minimize litigation risks. Enterprise Vault 10 can help your organization do so though its Data Classification Services technology.  At its heart, Data Classification Services empowers organizations to establish more effective information governance procedures.  Companies are able to better analyze and retain information that is significant or that must be kept – and nothing else. Available initially for Microsoft Exchange Server, Data Classification Services intelligently analyzes content as email is...
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    Updated: TonySterling 16 Apr 2011

    Enterprise Vault Discovery Collector

    It seems like EVDC is picking up pace and since more and more customers are deploying I have been writing some articles about it and how to use it. Please give them a read, they can be found here: https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/h... https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/h... https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/h...   ...
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    Created: BarneyHaye 25 Mar 2011

    Email archive migration blog @ http://barneyhaye.typepad.com/blog/

    Please access my blog at  http://barneyhaye.typepad.com/blog/
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    Created: TonySterling 10 Mar 2011

    Daylight Savings and EVDC

    As you are probably aware, daylight savings time starts again on Sunday morning (March 13).   After the time changes, automatically scheduled jobs will not run at their desired time. To resolve this issue, services should be restarted on all nodes.   To accomplish this: 1.       Login to the EVDC dashboard 2.       Please be sure no jobs are running 3.       Select <About clustered appliance> at bottom right of dashboard 4.       Select <restart services on all nodes> at bottom right of pane 5.       You will be logged out of dashboard, wait a few minutes, and log back in, all nodes should be green. If they are not green after about 15 minutes, please contact support. Note: rebooting the system is NOT required or desired....
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    Updated: Swathi Turlapaty 05 Dec 2010

    Enhanced Product Taxonomy!

    I would like to bring to your attention the new additions made to our Backup and Archiving community's product taxonomy. We have added four more products to the current list namely Compliance Accelerator, Discovery Accelerator, Discovery Collector and the all new NetBackup Appliances. So, with the new products added, we feel that it would make things easier for our users to tag their issues with the right products and to grab the right attention needed in having their issues resolved. We would have dedicated Symantec reps monitoring the conversations pertaining to all the products listed. Hence, we recommend having the content tagged appropriately. Also, please make note that the product "OpsCenter Analytics (Backup Reporter)" have been renamed to "Ops Center" so as to accommodate content pertaining to both the products in one location and to...