SilverDane Archive 4.5 Coming Soon

We have been busy, the propellers have been spinning and the results are coming to you soon. Every component of the SD Archive suite of products has been updated, and significant changes have been made to the database metadata. This is a full suite release of SD Archive.

Introducing…

SD Archive 4.5 makes a big leap forward with what’s under the hood. The new engine includes:

•    Improved attachment handling
•    Improved search speeds
•    Improved handling of shared folders
•    Improved memory handling
•    Improved attachment check functionality
•    Improved error handling
•    Significant performance enhancements
•    Automatic handling of user moves within GroupWise Post Offices

We have also included a list of bug fixes which will be detailed in the release notes.
Look out for the release announcement coming soon, and please feel free to contact us should you require any assistance with your upgrades. Visit www.silverdane.com for contact details.

Post Brainshare Exhilaration

Oh my goodness!

When we signed up to exhibit at Novell’s Brainshare 2011, we did not expect an event with so much excitement about Novell and their new direction under Attachmate.

It has been a week now since we got back, and we are still reeling from both the event and the aftermath (and all of the incredible travel disasters that occurred on the way but that is a completely different blog!)

The people were amazing. With over 2000 people in attendance the atmosphere was beyond what we anticipated. We had so many fantastic people visit our booth from all over the world, both at the Oktoberfest theme party and during the week. I can’t recall a Brainshare (and I have been at more than I care to admit) where I have worked so hard and seen so many people come past our booth. It was great to catch up with some of our existing customers from afar as well as meet a host of potential new ones.

While our SD MeetMe product was very much a hot topic, Adrian, Henrik and I were very much left with the impression that controlling risk, Compliance and email Archiving are definitely the topics of the hour, and the interest we had from attendees regarding SD Archive for archiving, retention, eDiscovery and restoration of GroupWise accounts was fantastic to see.

The technology showcase and lab was hot with excitement over the new products that Novell had on offer and the number of partners who participated in the event. Attachmate have invested heavily in the Novell teams, both on the product side and on the customer side and this was very evident. So if you haven’t yet had a visit from Novell people who are re:focused on their customers- expect one.

Lots of work has been done with GroupWise 2012 and its impending release was cause for much talk and excitement around Brainshare. We gained a unique opportunity to chat in depth with the Collaboration team and the magic that they have worked with GroupWise and Vibe is going to make those two products unstoppable.

GroupWise 2012 users can expect dramatic improvements to mobility (particularly on Apple’s iPad and iPhone – which are very near and dear to my own heart) as well as a very sexy new Web Access interface. Integrations with Vibe make anyone looking at Microsoft’s SharePoint do a double take; and the wondrous inclusion of Novell’s Data Synchroniser virtually eliminates any third party integration arguments people have thrown at Novell in the past.

If you have recently migrated away from GroupWise- you should be kicking yourself, and if you haven’t but are thinking migration is a foregone conclusion, you might want to revisit those business reasons and have another look before you make a costly mistake.

Novell is back in the house! See you at Brainshare in 2012!

Adrian (VP Bus Dev & Marketing), Taryn (CEO) and Henrik (BDE) at the Oktoberfest Theme Party- Brainshare 2011

SilverDane Integrates with your GroupWise Strategy

We know GroupWise.

Our team have been working with GroupWise since before it was GroupWise, in multiple roles, from teaching it as CNI’s to migrating to it (and from it) as CNE’s, in organizations with 100 to 100,000 users, to participating intrinsically in BETA testing new releases as Novell’s fabulous GroupWise product development team churned out yet another release of the worlds most secure email system.

We know GroupWise……
………….. and we know the people who love it, and why they love it.

When we sat down around a board room table with a white board and what we thought were white board makers 6 years ago, there was an outrageous air of excitement about us.

Join us at Brainshare 2011

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The History of Email

So Ray Tomlinson created the email and now the world can’t live without it. But what about the in-between bits? How did we become so reliant on a communication method that has relegated the humble postage stamp to ‘endangered’ status?

Email is celebrating its 40th birthday this year and I thought my gift would be to look back at the life of this invaluable invention.

Computer engineer Tomlinson sent the first email in 1971. Using his limited geeky creativeness, he sent his colleagues the message ‘QUERTYUIOP’. Maybe he should have invented the electronic thesaurus first! It was an instant hit and within two years of creating the messaging programme, 75% of traffic on ARPANET (the original version of the modern Internet) was email.

Mr Tomlinson was a little slow in naming his baby and the name ‘email’ didn’t enter modern vocabulary until 11 years after the first email was sent. The early 1980s was also the same time that personal computers first began to hit the market, making email available to the general public. It may have been the decade of excess but there was no free wi-fi in the 80s and offline readers were the norm, allowing a user to draft their email before ‘dialling’ up to the Internet to send it.

Every good story must have a hero and a villain and in this story the villain is spam. There is nothing amusing about nuisance electronic advertisements even though it got its moniker in the 1980s from a Monty Python sketch. The first spam was sent in 1978 to hundreds of users from the ARPANET directory advertising new computers, but it was so unpopular that it wasn’t tried again for more than a decade. Spammers never learn!

Free email services began to emerge in the mid 1990s, revolutionising the way people accessed their email. For the first time, users could now access their email from anywhere in the world. Google jumped on the free email bandwagon with the launch of Gmail in 2007.

So that’s it, the history of email in a nutshell. For those of us old enough to remember life without email, how has it changed the way you communicate? I would love to share your trip down memory lane.

Sources:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jZjsMxCqrr8/Tgd2lKZbPFI/AAAAAAAAXS8/5NonBUFkqvU/s1600/HistoryofEmailInfo-thumb-615×1012-55302.jpg
http://www.webopedia.com/quick_ref/timeline.asp
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2002/mar/13/internetnews
http://www.nethistory.info/History%20of%20the%20Internet/email.html
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1933796,00.html
http://email.about.com/od/emailtrivia/f/first_spam.htm

‘QWERTYUIOP’, of course

I am eternally grateful to Ray Tomlinson and I’m sure you are too. I know, I know, your metaphorical light bulb isn’t lighting up over the name ‘Ray Tomlinson.’ Here’s a clue- technology. Telephone? Alexander Bell. Electricity? Thomas Edison. Computer? Konrad Zuse. Internet? Tim Berners-Lee. Facebook? Mark Zuckerberg. And email? Ray Tomlinson.

Tomlinson invented email in 1971, making the @ symbol famous. At the time, email was limited to leaving messages on the computer you were operating via the SNDMSG programme Tomlinson had written. It appears users were actually quite happy with the limited messaging system but Tomlinson created email anyway, because he thought it seemed like a ‘neat idea’. And what did the world’s first email say? ‘QWERTYUIOP’, of course.

Needless to say, email has taken off and there is no looking back. The number of email accounts registered globally as of 2010 was nearly 3 billion, according to a report released last year by technology market research firm The Radicati Group, Inc. The report estimates there will be almost 4 billion email accounts by 2014.

It seems we email users are busy bees, sending nearly 200 billion emails per day! Although it’s impossible to know how much information is floating around in cyberspace, it’s estimated there is two zettabytes of ESI (Electronically Stored Information) in the world. Never heard of a zettabyte? One zettabyte is equal to 1,000,000 terabytes or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes. That’s too many zeros for anyone to comprehend! To give you some perspective, there is now the equivalent data as stars in the universe.

Could you live without email? How has it changed your life and the way you do business? For that matter, does anyone even remember a life without email? Would love to hear your thoughts.

Sources:
http://www.radicati.com/?p=5290
http://www.law.com/jsp/cc/PubArticleCC.jsp?id=1202497205314&From_the_Experts_Bankruptcy_and_EDiscovery&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

New Version of SD Archive coming soon

SD Archive 5.0 offers;
• a new and improved user interface
• faster smarter searching
• greater scalability than ever before
• our new and improved B.I.G. Tool
• better access from mobile devices.