The Forrester Wave™: Message Archiving Software, Q1 2008
Autonomy ZANTAZ And Symantec Lead A Hotly Contested Market
In Forrester’s 85-criteria evaluation of message archiving software vendors, we found that Autonomy ZANTAZ and Symantec have a tenuous lead over large vendors such as CA, EMC, IBM, and Open Text with broad enterprise content management (ECM) and storage portfolios. Autonomy ZANTAZ and Symantec provide the best set of value-add functionality like eDiscovery support and advanced analytics and search to address customer pain points. Strong Performers like CA, EMC, IBM, and Open Text are building value-add features but marrying them tightly to broader product portfolios that scare some customers into thoughts of vendor lock-in. Hewlett-Packard (HP) is a Contender with an interesting integrated appliance offering focused on providing high levels of scalability, while Quest Software is a Risky Bet, lacking most of the value-add features that customers demand today, including advanced search and analytics, eDiscovery support, and supervision.
The Forrester Wave™: Message Archiving Hosted Services, Q1 2008
In Forrester’s 71-criteria evaluation of message archiving hosted services vendors, we found that Autonomy ZANTAZ leads the pack with strong search functionality and vision for its services. Global Relay Communications is an up-and-comer that, with more resources, can provide a viable alternative, while Iron Mountain, LiveOffice, and Microsoft need to build out support for more advanced retention management and eDiscovery features in order to remain competitive. All vendors must also compete with the popular message archiving software providers whose advanced offerings are keeping the hosted services market out of the limelight thus far.
Gartner Magic Quadrant for E-Mail Active Archiving, 2007
E-mail active archiving products continue to add functionality to meet new market demands. Solutions are available to meet basic and complex requirements at a corresponding range in cost.
ESG Lab Review: IBM System Storage DR550 and ZANTAZ EAS
Enabling Scalable, High Performance E-mail Archiving
The goal of the ESG Lab reports is to educate customers about specific storage-related products including storage systems, backup-to-disk solutions, storage management applications, backup/recovery software, storage virtualization platforms, etc. ESG Lab reports are not meant to replace the necessary evaluation process that end user customers should conduct. ESG Lab reports are designed to provide insight to what is compelling about various products and how they can solve customer problems. ESG Lab provides third-party expert perspective based on ESG Lab analysis and interviews with customers using these products in production environments. This ESG Lab Review was commissioned by IBM.
Cohasset Associates SEC 17a-4(f) Compliance Assessment: ZANTAZ Digital Safe
This technical report is a compliance assessment of the Digital Safe hosted storage service offered by ZANTAZ, Inc. relative to the requirements of SEC Rule 17a-4(f) that regulate the storage, retrieval and management of electronic records for members, brokers or dealers. The assessment was performed by Cohasset Associates, Inc. using information provided by ZANTAZ and other publicly available information sources.
Cohasset’s assessment is that the Digital Safe hosted storage service complies with or supports meeting the requirements of all relevant conditions of Rule 17a-4(f).
Believe It — eDiscovery Technology Spending To Top $4.8 Billion By 2011
eDiscovery technology spending will grow from $1.4 billion in 2006 to more than $4.8 billion in 2011 as enterprises realize that they have no choice but to prepare for electronic discovery. Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) taking effect on December 1, 2006 will drive short-term growth for reactive eDiscovery solutions, while the desire to wrap eDiscovery into broader retention management strategies will drive significant market growth for years to come. As you investigate eDiscovery solutions, get the right team (legal, records management, and IT) together to make eDiscovery solutions decisions, and expect a fragmented technology marketplace that may require you to source from multiple vendors or to outsource.
Key Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
The upcoming amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure for Electronic Discovery are expected to take effect on December 1, 2006. The adoption of these proposed changes has significant implications for corporate records and information management policies and infrastructure and would influence future investment plans.
This is an Excerpt, sponsored by ZANTAZ, of an IDC market analysis - "Worldwide Legal Discovery and Litigation Support Infrastructure 2006-2010 Forecast: Building the Case for Proactive Records and Information Management Frameworks", by Vivian Tero. It includes the following sections: Essential Guidance, Related Research.
