Enterprise Vault 11 is now available...
The Enterprise Vault team is excited to announce the general availability of Symantec Enterprise Vault™ 11. You can download the bits from Symantec File Connect here (https://fileconnect.symantec.com). This highly anticipated release super charges Enterprise Vault, making it bigger, faster and better than ever before:Its time for Veritas… Its time for Enterprise Vault™ 12
The Intelligent Archive now delivers Better Control, Enhanced Supervision and Search and Improved Manageability. The Enterprise Vault team is excited to announce the general availability of Veritas Enterprise Vault™ 12. You can download license keys and software from the MyVeritas portal.No ordinary service pack…
After the successful launch of Enterprise Vault 11, it is time for another exciting new release. Today, I’m pleased to announce the general availability of Symantec Enterprise Vault™ 11.0.1. You can download the kit from Symantec File Connect here (https://fileconnect.symantec.com).Monitoring Enterprise Vault without our SCOM Pack?
Enterprise Vault includes a management pack for System Center Operations Manager (SCOM). The pack defines rules that enable SCOM to monitor Enterprise Vault components and critical Enterprise Vault events in the Application Event Log on Enterprise Vault servers.
Enterprise Vault 12 Beta
On behalf of the entire Enterprise Vault team, we’re pleased to let you know that the Enterprise Vault 12 Beta program will commence in late October. We will open up the Beta registration site in early October, and you will of course need to register to take part. Enterprise Vault 12 will build upon all the great features we introduced with Enterprise Vault 11.Update on Outlook versions supported on the Enterprise Vault server
Enterprise Vault’s Exchange archiving agent uses the version of MAPI supplied with Outlook to communicate with Microsoft Exchange. Enterprise Vault currently supports Outlook 2007 only due to performance and reliability issues encountered with Outlook 2010.
Symantec’s “E-Discovery Connectors” For Enterprise Vault: What Are They and Why Should You Care?
Authored By: Aaref Hilaly Today, Symantec announced 3 connectors for Enterprise Vault, for analytics, review and content collection. According to the announcement, these will “provide tight integration with third-party case management, review, analytics, forensics and desktop collection tools.” The idea that archives should integrate with third party products is one I whole-heartedly support and have written about before. My company, Clearwell, has been working with Nick, Scott, and the gang at Symantec on this for over a year. They tell us that we were the first to integrate with Enterprise Vault and, to our knowledge, we are the only ones who have deployed fully integrated e-discovery solutions with Enterprise Vault at several enterprises. Having said all that (and climbing down from my soapbox), I think Symantec’s customers will need to read this announcement very carefully to understand what it means. To give them a helping hand, let me translate it from corporate-marketing-speak into plain English: Symantec is releasing 3 connectors which enable customers to ingest files from EnCase and export files to Summation and Ringtail. It is also exposing a new application programming interface (API) so that third-party vendors can more easily build their own connectors to Enterprise Vault. At this point, most people’s eyes glaze over and they ask “who cares”? Surely, only techies get excited about something as esoteric as a new API. But as the recent excitement over FaceBook’s API has shown, opening up a platform – even in a limited way, as Symantec is doing – can unlock tremendous value. For those customers with Discovery Accelerator v.7.5, the new API will have a huge impact for 2 reasons: It makes integration with Enterprise Vault much easier, so lots more vendors will do it. In their press release, Symantec mentions a handful of companies who are building connectors to the new API and I’m sure more will follow. This increases customer choice, and makes it more likely that Symantec customers will be able to select related products that closely fit their needs; It enables enterprises to have a smooth workflow across all aspects of e-discovery, from collection/preservation to analysis/review to production/presentation. For example, companies can now collect information in Enterprise Vault, preserve it by placing a litigation hold on key information via Discovery Accelerator, and then seamlessly hand off that information to a third party application (like Clearwell) for review and analysis. This saves a lot of time that would otherwise be wasted on importing/exporting data from different systems, and reduces the risk that something gets lost in the shuffle. Net net: companies do well by giving customers what they want, and customers want end-to-end e-discovery solutions. Symantec is not the only one to have figured this out; stay tuned for more announcements like this from other archiving vendors.Gartner Publishes eDiscovery MarketScope (Pre-Cursor To eDiscovery Magic Quadrant)
Earlier today, Gartner published its eDiscovery MarketScope for 2009. Written by Debra Logan, John Bace, and Whit Andrews, it is perhaps the most comprehensive "buyers guide" available for companies interested in using electronic discovery technology to lower costs. The eDiscovery MarketScope analyzes about 20 software companies focused on electronic data discovery. Based on extensive interviews with end customers and data from the companies themselves, Gartner rates the companies using criteria similar to those used in its famous Magic Quadrant reports. It also identifies market trends, and makes predictions for 2009 and beyond. This report is required reading for anyone considering an investment in eDiscovery software, and I strongly recommend that you get a copy, either from Gartner or some other authorized source. To give you a flavor for Gartner's analysis, a few of its main conclusions are as follows: 1. Bringing eDiscovery In-House Dramatically Reduces Cost This is a claim that electronic discovery software vendors often make, and prospective customers rightly question. Gartner investigates and finds that many of its corporate clients are saving large amounts of money by using eDiscovery software to reduce the amount they spend on lawyers and legal service providers. It reports that customers typically recover their money from buying eDiscovery software within 3-6 months of implementation. 2. There's No Single, End-To-End Solution For eDiscovery Gartner addresses what is probably the most common question I get asked by corporate counsels and litigation support managers - namely, "Isn't there a single product I can buy that will do end-to-end eDiscovery, covering all aspects of the EDRM?" The answer, of course, is "no" and Gartner goes further by predicting that the answer will remain "no" until at least 2011. So, for the foreseeable future, customers will need to buy best-of-breed products from different vendors for different stages of the EDRM model, and ensure they integrate smoothly. 3. There Are 4 Leading eDiscovery Software Companies Company Product Clearwell Clearwell E-Discovery Platform FTI Attenex, RingTail Symantec Discovery Accelerator Zylab E-Discovery Management Module List of vendors achieving highest rating of "strong positive" (from Figure 2, page 10) Of all the companies it analyzed, Gartner only gives 4 its highest rating of "strong positive". Each of the four has different strengths. For processing, analysis and review, Clearwell is "fast-to-install and easy-to-use" (page 12) , while FTI's ability to offer Attenex / RingTail either hosted or on-premise "positions it well for the future" (page 13) . Symantec's leadership in email archiving makes Discovery Accelerator a good option for its customers who need to search and export data from Enterprise Vault. Finally, Zylab is well-known within law-enforcement circles and has a strong presence in Europe and Asia. 4. There Will Be Consolidation In The Next 12 Months As the market matures, Gartner predicts that as many as 25% of eDiscovery software providers will either merge, be acquired, or exit the business. Access Data's ambitious bid for Guidance has publicly put Guidance in play. Beyond that, Gartner suggests that Kazeon and several other players are all likely acquisition targets for larger companies wishing to enter the eDiscovery space. Of course, Gartner is not the only influential voice in eDiscovery. Earlier this year, George Socha and Tom Gelbmann published their Socha-Gelbmann Survey, which also provides a valuable perspective on the market. How do the two reports compare? That will be the subject of my next post.
