Legal Discovery Challenges:
An e-mail systems archive is fully searchable, greatly simplifying the e-discovery process. Let’s assume that a lawsuit is pending and all e-mails connected with a particular client are being reviewed, by your lawyers, the opposing party’s lawyers, or both. What can take months of billable hours by a team of lawyers and IT professionals can literally take minutes through a keyword search of an e-mail archive. In this scenario, three outcomes are possible:
- Bad news – a “smoking gun” e-mail, IM, or user file is found that implicates the company or confirms its guilt.
- Good news – an e-mail, IM, or user file is found that proves the company is innocent of wrongdoing in the case.
- No news – no confirmation of guilt or innocence is found.
In all three outcomes, early knowledge is key. If bad news is indeed uncovered, it’s to the company’s advantage to know this early on. Often the strategy is to settle on the case, thereby saving on legal fees. If good news is the result, this can quickly be shared with legal advisors for the opposition, who may opt to end the lawsuit. If no critical information is found, the company can proceed as necessary, secure in the knowledge that there will be no hidden surprises along the way.
Why Jatheon:
Jatheon’s Plug n
Comply™ appliance is an integrated solution
that is simple, secure and scalable, offering
absolute control of confidential messaging data. The
Jatheon appliance allows organizations to meet and
exceed the highest standards of regulatory
compliance and corporate governance. Our network
appliance reduces the risk associated with
outsourced technologies, significantly reduces
e-mail storage and discovery costs, and enforces
electronic records management policies. Additionally
Jatheon’s archiving appliance will offer indexing
and archiving functionally for enterprise based
e-mail encryption systems. Jatheon is the only
company with a solution for companies deploying end
to end e-mail encryption.
At Jatheon, we're committed to providing you with
everything you need, day in and day out, to keep
your e-mail securely stored and your business
productive. Our industry leading customer service,
technology and expertise gives you complete peace of
mind, eliminating risk and giving you the time to
focus on your business. We offer organizations a
cost effective, easy to use e-mail management
solution that is complemented by its constantly
evolving next-generation technologies. As a result,
organizations are able to help satisfy their e-mail
and policy management, compliance, legal discovery,
and mail migration needs.
FAQ:
Q.
How does Jatheon’s Plug n Comply™ solution search
and retrieve e-mails?
A. The appliance
indexes and archives the data as if it was a
dictionary. When a search is performed, the data is
searched against the dictionary or index file based
on your search query. Only when the e-mail is
clicked on, the appliance then retrieves the e-mail
in an uncompressed format. This type of indexing
allows for e-mails to be searched in a very quick
and efficient manner.
Jatheon’s technology allows on average for a 10
to 1 compression ratio on all data stored on the
appliance.
Q.
How long does the implementation take for Jatheon’s
Plug n Comply™ solution?
A. It takes only a
few hours and not days. This is because the
appliance is non- intrusive to the network layer.
Our appliance requires minimal training and is
simple to deploy, manage and operate.
Q.
Is it possible to delete messages from Jatheon’s
Plug n Comply™?
A. No. All messages
are stored in the appliance until the pre-determined
expunge date. This date is decided by the champion
of the e-mail archiving initiative.
Q.
Is there any hardware or software required for
Jatheon’s Plug n Comply™?
A. No. The appliance
is a turn-key solution that comes equipped with all
the hardware and software for e-mail archiving.
Q.
What e-mail platforms does Jatheon’s Plug n Comply™
support?
A. The appliance
integrates with all the major e-mail platforms:
Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes, Novell Groupwise
and Kerio.
Q.
Is it possible to upload an existing archive?
A. Yes. Jatheon
offers professional services for data migration.
Q.
Does a full audit trail exist?
A. Yes. All messages
are time and date stamped. The appliance also offers
authenticity features which include a DNA
fingerprint to ensure that the e-mail has not been
manipulated.
Q. Does Jatheon’s Plug
n Comply™ archive all e-mails?
A. Yes. All e-mails
that go through the e-mail server are archived.
Q.
Does Jatheon’s Plug n Comply™ archive Instant
Messaging and Bloomberg Mail?
A. Yes, we archive
specific types of IM (Yahoo, MSN, AIM, ICQ, etc) and
Bloomberg Mail.
Q.
Does Jatheon’s Plug n Comply™ solution impact the
performance of the existing e-mail server?
A. No. Because the
appliance is non-intrusive, it has no impact on the
performance of your e-mail server.
Q.
Data Migration: ...can the product automatically
migrate data between tiers or systems? If so,
briefly describe.
Yes – The PnC products support data migration.
Migration and ingestion of existing customer data is
done by the appliance from files in either a pst or
eml format. Using the optional Jatheon pst crawler,
searches for local pst files are done and they are
actively imported and ingested into the appliance
for archiving and searching.
The Jatheon suite of products are integral in the
e-mail platform migration process. Clients wishing
to move from one e-mail platform to another, ie.
Novell Groupwise to Exchange 2007, are usually
concerned of their data being lost or compromised
during the migration process. By including Jatheon’s
solution in their platform migration strategy, the
client can go through this process with ease and
comfort, knowing that all the e-mail has been
archived on the Jatheon appliance.
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