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Gray… what? You have almost certainly heard of dark data. Dark data is generally defined as data being collected during various operational activities – but not used. During our bi-weekly discussions with Gartner, it became clear to me that there is quite a gap between Active Data (email, documents, reports and so on) and Dark […]

It’s been an incredible and very busy year, I can’t believe another year has passed. I’m grateful to be surrounded by such an amazing team at Quadrotech. We’ve accomplished many things this year.

Recently, in a large Archive Shuttle migration project (Enterprise Vault to Exchange), I was pleased to see the following statistics and was really amazed… 490 GB per hour extraction rate (=11.8 TB per day)!

Unique managed archive migration for sensible end user prices Quadrotech’s archive migration pricing has rattled a few cages in the industry recently. Competitors have accused us of undercutting the market, causing industry watchers to seek more information about our migration services. Those we’ve spoken to tell us our pricing is significantly more cost effective than […]

Paris reminds us that compliance is not just about email data Although speculation that the tragic attacks on Paris in November 2015 were planned using the in-gaming PlayStation4 (PS4) network appears to have been discredited, the story raises important compliance and security questions for organizations. Where does compliance begin and end, what is covered by […]

Migrating on a budget can store up trouble So you’ve decided to migrate your email ecosystem. There could be many reasons for that – improved security, easier management, cost reduction, and much more – but do you really need to migrate everything? Obviously, you need to make sure your recent emails remain accessible in the […]

EU’s new data protection regime reflects the reality of cloud For the European Union (EU) businesses, these are interesting times to be involved in data compliance. Two major developments governing the use of personally-identifiable information have raised their heads in Europe, each of which requires clients to be circumspect in their moves to the cloud.

Who has handled the evidence? In the world of email and email archive migrations, you’ll often see reference to Chain of Custody (CoC) as a requirement. So what exactly do we mean by that? CoC is about traceability and being able to demonstrate that the source hasn’t been tampered with. It’s evidence that the wood […]

Why don’t I just export my Email Archives to PST on my own and use the Microsoft PST Import Service? This is the most common question we get asked right now. This applies to both Archive Migrations and PST Migrations going into Office 365. In this post, we want to cover where this is a […]

If you’re migrating to a new email platform, it’s easy to call in a consultant and leave it to them. But for many organizations, marrying a consultant with a third party migration tool can get the best results—at the best price – a win win.