LiveOffice In The News
June 24, 2008
Another Email Archive Service Gets Bought
This has been a busy time for SaaS mail archives. Just last week saw the launch of a new service from Live Office. And in February, Dell purchased MessageOne, a SaaS provider of e-mail archiving, continuity, and compliance services, for $155 million.
June 17, 2008
The Archive in the Sky
Yesterday, LiveOffice launched LiveOffice Mail Archive. It plucks a copy of all mail from your Exchange servers and sends it to the company’s data centers, where it is indexed for search and stored for as long as you like.
June 17, 2008
What’s This Archiving Thing?
Yesterday, I mentioned a company called LiveOffice in the SMB Tech News Today post. LiveOffice was created to give SMBs sophisticated email archiving options typically reserved for the bigger enterprise guys.
June 16, 2008
LiveOffice Launches SaaS E-Mail Archiving
E-mail archiving solution provider LiveOffice introduced LiveOffice Mail Archive, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) hosted solution suitable for small and midsize businesses.
June 16, 2008
LiveOffice to Ease SMB E-mail Archiving
LiveOffice aims to improve e-mail archiving for small to midsize businesses as well as provide better backup and security with a new hosted offering called Mail Archive.
June 14, 2008
Email Archiving for Smaller Businesses
E-mail pours into businesses every day and it never stops. How to turn that flood into an asset? By selecting an e-mail archiving system that meets their needs, smaller businesses can protect themselves from litigation, boost productivity, and ensure business continuity.
June 11, 2008
Email Archiving for Smaller Businesses
E-mail pours into businesses every day and it never stops. How to turn that flood into an asset? By selecting an e-mail archiving system that meets their needs, smaller businesses can protect themselves from litigation, boost productivity, and ensure business continuity.
May 19, 2008
LiveOffice names email archiving veteran Nick Mehta as CEO
LiveOffice, the leading provider of managed email archiving, compliance, security and Exchange hosting solutions, today announced the appointment of Nick Mehta as CEO.
May 2, 2008
What exactly is Hosted Exchange?
For most small business owners, email is their lifeblood. In fact, in a recent study1, it was determined that up to 75% of a company’s intellectual property resides in its email and other messaging applications.
April 30, 2008
Making Sure Your Data is Safe with SaaS
Software as a Service (SaaS) has become quite the buzzword these days, and the category covers a wide range of applications that you can access and use over the Internet without having to invest in any servers or install any software on your premises.
April 4, 2008
Google Offers Online Archiving for Hosted Email
In a move that ups the ante in Google's SaaS push, the vendor has quietly added archiving to its hosted email services.
April 4, 2008
SMEs Face Shifts In The Hosted Message Management & Archiving Market
No matter how many new applications (social networking, online communities, etc.) crop up, the one killer Internet app is still email.
April 1, 2008
E-mail archiving: options for SMBs
The market for e-mail archiving has experienced remarkable growth over the past several years, driven by compliance requirements and burgeoning volumes of messages.
April 1, 2008
Perspective: Do Email Archiving Worries Keep You Up at Night?
White House scandals over email retrieval - or, rather, the inability to do so. Email discovery violations in the patent infringement suit between Qualcomm and Broadcom. Continued discussion about the changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) that went into effect over a year ago.
March 2008
How Will You Conquer E-Mail Management?
The continued explosion of e-mail leads to increased risk, threat, and cost. As such, managing e-mail has become a critical consideration not only for enterprises, but also for SMBs.
February 25, 2008
The Future of E-compliance
Electronic communications encompass much more than just e-mail in this day and age. Employees use a variety of options to communicate on the job, whether they are sitting at their desks inside the office, sharing information remotely via the Web or accessing messages on the go with a mobile device.
February 18, 2008
Playing Catch-up in E-archiving~Many Firms Still Need IT Boost to Meet e-Communications Requirements
Changes to the U.S. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP), requiring companies to have enterprisewide retention policies for all electronic communications, went into effect on Dec. 1, 2006. As the deadline approached, observers predicted a sea change in corporate attitudes toward e-communications archiving.
February 4, 2008
An Archiving Call for BlackBerry Texting
Text messaging, or texting, may be spreading like wildfire, but many securities firms have long banned its use for business-related purposes--this despite the fact that regulators have only recently said that archiving of such messages is required.
February 1, 2008
For Their Eyes Only: Anyone Could be Looking at Your Electronic Communications—Especially the SEC
Boys will be boys. Brian Hamburger has a client whose employees used email to conduct “bar-stool” conversations—that is, the kind of conversations that really should be conducted only in bars.
February 2008
The All-Knowing, All-Seeing Eye
Representations of an all-seeing eye can be traced back to Egyptian mythology. But is an omnipresent eye watching over all a comfort or a concern? The advent of email monitoring brought with it a wave of misunderstanding.
January 18, 2008
E-mail Scandal Drives Storage Best Practices Home
As the saga of whether the Bush administration properly saved or illegally deleted e-mail continues to unfold, experts are advising companies to review and confirm that corporate e-mail policies are not only in place but are meeting regulatory requirements.
January 8, 2008
Compliance Watch: Smartphones Pose Compliance Challenges
Financial advisors who unwrapped new iPhones for Christmas may have also unwittingly opened a compliance can of worms.
August 10, 2007
Email Archiving Demands Require Sophisticated Tools
With so many options available, how do you choose the right email archive package for your own environment? Here are some tips to help you pick and choose email archiving tools.
July 5, 2007
Half of Businesses Not Meeting Federal e-mail Discovery, Retention Rules
Sixty-three percent of the survey respondents have had to produce an e-mail as the result of a legal action. Fifty-three percent said they could not meet FRCP regulations, which provide for the discovery and retention of electronic records and the ability to retrieve them if economically feasible.
June 27, 2007
The risk of ignoring e-discovery obligations
It appears that many companies are not in a position to comply with electronic discovery amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) that went into effect late last year.
June 27, 2007
Wake Up To Your E-Discovery Obligations, Corporate America!
As a refresher, under amendments to FRCP 16(b), parties must get ready for a scheduling conference to consider electronic discovery plans within 120 days of the start of a lawsuit.
June 26, 2007
The art of e-discovery
ESI is born of changes brought about by the Federal Rules for Civil Procedure (FRCP), which went into effect on Dec. 1, 2006. I've written about FRCP several times, including an in-depth article on FRCP preparedness.
June 26, 2007
LiveOffice, MessageGate Surveys Stress Importance of Preparing for e-Discovery
Recent amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) provide litigants with greater access to electronic communication (e.g., email messages, IM, text messages), primarily for gathering evidence during the discovery phase for court cases. Dubbed e-discovery, these recent changes are helping put even more pressure on IT managers to have a suitable enterprise email management solution in place.
June 26, 2007
Electronic discovery worse than dentist, IT execs say
Drilling down into the numbers shows that almost a third of the 400 IT managers and end-users surveyed believe they can’t produce a one-year-old e-mail within a reasonable time – even in response to a subpoena or other legal procedure during a lawsuit.
June 25, 2007
Email's Mea Culpa
A study released today by Osterman Research reveals that more and more firms are coming under pressure to quickly retrieve emails in the aftermath of legal action. The survey, sponsored by archiving vendor LiveOffice, found that 63 percent of the 400 IT managers surveyed have already been required to find emails as a result of a legal action.
April 11, 2007
LiveOffice Launches Administrative Portal for Hosted Services
LiveOffice on Monday announced a new Web portal for its Managed Messaging Services designed to give organizations easy access to archived e-mails and statistics regarding storage space utilization.
April 9, 2007
A LiveOffice Eye on Your E-Mail
The company is introducing Sentinel Portal, a tool that allows IT administrators and end users to customize its archiving, encryption and mailbox management functions through a single Web-based interface.
April 9, 2007
LiveOffice Launches Web-based Admin for E-discovery
Messaging security, storage and compliance provider LiveOffice Managed Messaging Services April 9 introduced its Sentinel e-mail portal, a web-based administration console that enables organizations to search and retrieve archived messages for e-discovery purposes, while also providing real-time views of inbound threats, e-mail volumes and storage utilization.
April 7, 2007
Service Providers Should Be Well-Armed Against Spam
The latest battle is over "image" spam. Instead of words, the message embeds its pitch into an image file. Along with a graphic, a link and a phone number, the mailing advertises many of the same products we have heard about before: Prescriptions. Presidential pitches. Porn.
March 21, 2007
AMD Angry; Intel Angry; E-Mails Still Lost
The e-mail issue relates to a suit AMD filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware in June 2005. AMD claims Intel uses unfair tactics to bully and pay off computer makers into buying its chips.
March 7, 2007
Intel Faces Up to E-Mail Retention Problems in AMD Lawsuit
Intel is facing some big-time legal problems in its 2-year-old legal tussle with a major competitor, AMD—largely because its own internal e-mail archiving system is apparently failing.
January 31, 2006
Hedge funds snub SEC e-mail archiving rule
Of an estimated 8,400 hedge funds in the U.S., LiveOffice said yesterday that about 75 are using its AdvisorMail product, by far the largest number of users among the companies SearchStorage.com surveyed.
January 18, 2006
Institutional Investor’s Hedge Fund Daily (email newsletter)
Hedge fund compliance with upcoming Securities and Exchange Commission e-mail retention requirements boosted HF buys of LiveOffice Corp. e-mail archiving system by 70% in the fourth quarter.
December 22, 2005
Vendors look to strike gold with N.Y. transit hype
With millions of New Yorkers stranded indefinitely by the city's ongoing transit strike, a smattering of technology vendors are taking advantage of the chance to tout their wares to displaced office workers.
December 20, 2005
Workers Coping With NY Transit Strike By Telecommuting
As New Yorkers struggle with the city’s first transit strike in 25 years, they are finding a host of telecommuting options available to them to help them work from home.
December 20, 2005
Telecommuting Eases NYC Transit Strike Pain
New Yorkers have come a long way since the last transit strike 25 years ago.
December 20, 2005
New Yorkers Enlist Telecommuting Technology To Cope With Transit Strike
As New Yorkers struggle with the city’s first transit strike in 25 years, they are finding a host of telecommuting options available to them to help them work from home.
November 17, 2005
LiveOffice Rolls Out New Lexicon For Messaging Compliance
LiveOffice Corp. has brought out eAuditor+, a pre-populated word and phrase lexicon designed for financial services professionals who need to monitor, store and retrieve electronic communications in compliance with SEC, NASD and NYSE regulations.
August 27, 2005
LiveOffice To Link IMConferencing With Google Talk
LiveOffice announced upcoming plans to integrate its IMConferencing web conferencing system with Google Talk.
August 25, 2005
Google Talk Meets IMConferencing Allowing More Features
LiveOffice Corp. today announced upcoming plans to integrate its IMConferencing. web conferencing system with Google Talk.
August 25, 2005
Add-Ins Instantly Pop Up for Google Talk
Google's ability to generate buzz is nearly as great as its ability to search the Web. Within hours of launching the new Google Talk service, third-party developers are announcing products to improve the security and functionality of Google's new offering.
August 25, 2005
IMConferencing Integrates With Google Talk
LiveOffice Corp. (www.liveoffice.com) today announced upcoming plans to integrate its IMConferencing (www.imconferencing.com) web conferencing system with Google Talk.
August 25, 2005
The CN Interview with Matt Smith, COO of Live Office
Conferencing News: Tell us about the history of LiveOffice, its services, and how IMConferencing fits within its structure.
August 2005
E-mail Storage And Retrieval Solutions
As most financial advisors know, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) and SEC rules on electronic communication (such as SEC rule 17a-4) have produced new challenges and, potentially, increased operational expenses.
July 21, 2005
Microsoft Pulls In FrontBridge
Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT - message board) has snapped up privately held FrontBridge Technologies Inc. for an undisclosed fee, in a bid to consolidate more functions within Exchange (see Microsoft Acquires FrontBridge).
June 24, 2005
New Search Technology for AdvisorMail
AdvisorMail, a tool that helps organizations electronically monitor, archive and retrieve e-mails, attachments and instant messages, now offers more advanced search technology aimed at satisfying regulatory requirements and litigations requests.
June 21, 2005
LiveOffice Beefs Up AdvisorMail
NEW YORK — LiveOffice Corporation (www.liveoffice.com), provider of AdvisorMail (www.advisormail.net), today announced the release of its Global Power Search (GPS) technology at the SIA Technology Management Conference.
June 21, 2005
Email Archives Arrive
Email archiving is growing into a multibillion-dollar market, and storage vendors are hustling to cash in.
May 13, 2005
Compliance E-Mail Products Flooding Market
Despite ongoing warnings from the SEC to be more vigilant with internal e-mail record keeping, many firms have had trouble complying due to technology limitations. But now, new products hitting the market offer firms more tools to help them comprehensively sort e-mails.
May 2005
Efficient Communication Ideas For Remote Advisors
New technology makes reaching out a lot easier.
April 5, 2005
New Compliance Features In AdvisorMail 4.0
Enhancements said to cut compliance review time by 50 percent.
March 28, 2005
E-mail compliance tool available for hedge funds
LiveOffice Corp. in Torrance, Calif., has released AdvisorMail HF, designed to help hedge funds meet new Securities and Exchange Commission regulations surrounding the proper monitoring, archiving and retrieval of e-mail and instant message communications.
January 2005
What’s Your Web Site For?
Using a ‘client-centered’ Web site as an efficient part of your practice.