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Creating a Culture of Accountability

By Marc St-Arnaud, GWAVA CFO/COO

When we talk about reasons for archiving emails and text messages, we usually speak of compliance and open records requests. But it is really about being responsible for what you write and what you say. Compliance equates to transparency being an open book;in your communications.

Everyone knows that with today's technology, illegal, slanderous and clandestine activities carried out through business emails and texts create digital trails that can be proven, making those who would write or say these things think twice before they do it, especially if they know that they are being monitored.

But what about transparency for everyone, including our children? Text messages sent to and from their own cell phones are often viewed as private conversations, sacrosanct - like a diary that parents should stay out of. This mentality flies in the face of responsible parenting. If this seems a bit like "big brother" to you, ask yourself if you would check your child's backpack or bedroom for drugs or talk to their teachers about their behavior in class. Chances are that your kids expect you to check up on them. Social networking sites started out for the young, but the trend spread and now their parents and grandparents have joined in. Everyone now understands that a picture or comment on Facebook is out there for the world to see. The world is changing. Some people will embrace the transparency world now; some will do it later and some never will. This is why we live in a free world.

Raising children in an environment of transparency and responsibility for their actions helps them grow into responsible adults. Just as an organization demands accountability from its employees, parents should hold their children accountable for their actions and communications. If we, as a society, all live as though we expect our communications to be transparent, we can create a culture of accountability. A good place to start is by educating our children to be transparent in their texting, social networking and cell phone behaviors

Integrating Text Messaging into your Open Records Policy

Are you able to quickly retrieve text messagedata for open records request? If not, join GWAVA, industry experts and peers in a panel discussion about this challenging topic. Learn how other government organizations are finding ways to archive text messages on a limited budget, keep them secure and still be able to quickly locate them for open records requests. Join GWAVA for this free seminar in New York (Aug. 17) and Washington DC (Aug. 18).

According to a ruling by the US Supreme Court on June 17, 2010, text messages made by a public employee, even for personal use, are subject to open records requests.

Join GWAVA, RIM, Verizon, government experts in compliance and your peers in this informative panel discussion on secure archiving and retrieval of text messages. Learn how other organizations like yours are finding ways to archive text messages on a limited budget, keep them secure and still be able to quickly locate them for open records requests.

This free text archiving event for government will be held in New York and Washington, DC.

October 12, New York City - Courtyard Marriott Times Square

October 27, Washington, DC - Crystal City Marriott at Reagan National Airport

Mobility Tour Registration

Survey Winners

After our spring technical tour, we asked attendees to fill out a short survey to help us improve the tour. Each month, we awarded a $50 Amazon gift card to a survey participant. Congratulations to our three winners

Gina Johnson from Clark, Thomas & Winters
Lidija Thompson Ward from Grant MacEwan College
Vic Lynn from NC State University

GWAVA 5 to be Released Soon

Look for the newest release of GWAVA 5 to be available this month! Not only will this latest version completely support the Windows platform, but if also offers these other great features and more:

Statistics Dashboard - get up-to-date information such as blocked and clean messages as well as current virus threats on the improved dashboard

TLS support - support for end-to-end encryption of transmitted messages LDAP Support - configure GWAVA to leverage your existing LDAP server for authentication services.

Check out GWAVA Nation

GWAVA Nation is a web community devoted to helping you get the most out of your investment in GWAVA products. Here you'll find event updates, articles, tips, free downloadables, and exclusive blogs from some of the most experienced GroupWise experts on planet earth.

We have recently updated GWAVA Nation and moved it to our faster server. Unfortunately, we were unable to keep the previous user accounts and passwords. So please feel free to create a new user account and post your comments or GWAVA-related articles and events. On the good side, you can use your same account on the GWAVA web site to download product trials and access other exclusive information. If you have trouble posting, contact our webmaster, marie-christinec@gwava.com.

Join in, participate and let us know what you think. So come often, stay late; we'll keep the lights on for you.

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Shrink Your Archive Storage by Switching to Retain

Does your current GroupWise archive system use true single-instance storage (SiS)? You may be surprised to find out that M+Archive uses SiS only on attachments, not on the message body itself.

A GroupWise customer with 500 users and 3.5 million messages in M+Archive decided to switch to GWAVA Retain for its superior archiving abilities. To migrate the email archive, GWAVA personnel broke the existing M+Archive message store into four directories (folders). They ran the Retain migration utility against all four folders to create four migration threads. The migration process took five days.

The results were surprising. The original M+Archive message store took 750GB. The newly migrated archive using Retain is only 100GB.

If you want to use true single-instance storage and save money on your archives, switch to Retain.

For more information on GWAVA Retain and how it compares to M+Archive

Anunciando GWAVACon América del Norte 2011

GWAVACon is moving this year! On January 23-25, 2011, GWAVACon will be held in Torrance, California - close by the Los Angeles international airport and just a short drive to the beach. Make your plans to get some California sunshine next January and soak in the great information you can only get at GWAVACon! Check GWAVACon.com for registration and up-to-date information