Posted by Nick Mehta on Mon, Jun 08, 2009 @ 09:25 PM
While Barack Obama and I relentlessly cling to our Blackberries, I'm sure both of us are equally-impressed with the pace of innovation in the smartphone market.
From the Palm Pre announced last week to the iPhone 3GS unveiled today, it seems like the market for Internet-connected phones is flipping on its head every quarter.
And with every release, it's more and more clear that the money today is in business users and specifically in better support for Microsoft Exchange.
It's all very exciting to watch. But from our seat in the email archiving world, millions more email-enabled mobile devices means billions of additional email messages to store, retain and search.
And I don't know about you but "Sent from a [] handheld" often means that the sender didn't have much time to think about that message before sending it. It will be interesting to see what percentage of E-Discovery requests five years from now are related to messages of increasingly-questionable judgment sent from increasingly-"smart" phones.
Posted by Amy Dugdale on Tue, Nov 25, 2008 @ 01:42 PM
Dear President-elect Obama:
As the New York Times reported recently, you've got a problem-your email. Experts (and according to the story, even your advisors) say that the Presidential Records Act makes it too risky for you to keep emailing and using your trusty BlackBerry once you take office. But you built your campaign platform around the idea of change, and we say it's time to buck the trend and turn you into an emailing, BlackBerry'ing commander-in-chief. We're confident it can be done.
"How?" you ask. What you need is an email archiving system that securely captures all the messages you send and receive and preserves them in their original format. It can even handle email messages you send from your BlackBerry. Plus, if you opt for a software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering, you can be up and running in just a few days (and you'll never even notice a difference in your email).
As the first emailing president, an email archiving solution can help you:
- Increase the transparency of your administration (which you've said is a top priority)
- Prevent the risk of lost messages (and the subsequent bad PR - as we saw when the Bush administration lost "potentially millions" of messages)
- Benefit from the efficiencies of email while protecting your messages in a highly secure environment
As the developer of one of the first cloud-based email archiving solutions, we can tell you from firsthand experience that being the first to do something is always buzz worthy-and a solid email archiving system can make you the first emailing president. That's our platform, and we're sticking to it.
Respectfully,
Your Friends at LiveOffice