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posted on 13 February 2008 11:10

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TeraCloud, a storage utilisation analytics supplier, has bought Estorian, an e-mail archive and e-discovery company, and adopted its name.

To add ironic interest to the purchase Estorian was founded by TeraCloud's own founder Ron Higgins. He and the two other Estorian employees join TeraCloud, where Higgins becomes the Chief Strategy Officer.

At the same time Atempo is combining file and e-mail archive but not e-discovery.

TeraCloud, sorry Estorian, will now focus on archiving e-mails and e-discovery, using Estorian's LookingGlass product. Gary Tidd, Estorian (TeraCloud that was) president and CEO, said: "LookingGlass is the new benchmark for companies interested in proactively managing their e-mail archival, retrieval and e-discovery challenges. LookingGlass finds the right data in the fastest and most cost-effective way to 'preserve and produce obligations' consistent with the latest Federal e-discovery rules."

Estorian is taking on Autonomy Zantaz in this market.

A highly complementary view of LookingGlass comes from user Mark Walters, of Walters Employment Law & Technology: "LookingGlass is to litigation discovery what Google is to the Internet."

Enterprise Strategy Group Analyst Bob Laliberte said: "Eighty percent of electronic discovery events involve e-mail, requiring organizations to invest in solutions like LookingGlass that are capable of e-mail archiving and then also quickly and easily retrieving information. LookingGlass delivers impressive functionality integrated with an easy to use interface."

The history of LookingGlass is interesting.

In 2005, Estorian Founder Ron Higgins hatched the idea for LookingGlass after completing a search for the defendant in a Federal investigation. The search took 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for three months and spent $1.86 million to retrieve and search 3.5 years of e-mail data to confirm the violation. Today, the same search with LookingGlass would cost a few dollars and take less than 5 minutes.

Estorian points out that the September 11, 2001, terrorist communications were difficult to track because they all used the same e-mail account and communicated in draft e-mail form. There was no record of sent or received communication between the parties. LookingGlass interactive intelligence can search draft emails.

The company reckons that LookingGlass provides interactive intelligence for e-mail archival and retrieval, and e-discovery, eliminating hundreds and in some cases thousands of hours of IT and legal resources working to recover and secure sensitive government and corporate information.

Exchange support
LookingGlass, which serves companies utilizing Microsoft Exchange, was developed to flag all e-mail history and social networking in real-time, whether it is part of sent, received or draft e-mail. It offers:-

-- Dynamic categorization function enables electronic messages and files to be classified and stored for easy access to reduce time and cost to retrieve, search and review.
-- Interceptor technology provides active e-mail archiving without the overhead associated with journaling, logging, mirroring or clustering.
-- Interactive intelligence engine provides forensic and real-time search.
-- Exchange files, including backup, are read directly into the index/archive.
-- Complex searches are retrieved by a simple point and click in a matter of seconds.
-- Instant access to corporate communication inside and outside the company, including attachments.

Find out more at http://www.estorian.com.