I retired from personal blogging in July 2008.
But you can find me over at http://blog.xero.com.
Over the last few months I’ve been working on a new product called AfterMail with Mike Upshon of Kickstarter fame.
AfterMail works alongside Exchange (or any other email system) and loads all Enterprise email into a relational database, as well as booking attachments into the file system as a true single instance store.
We’d become frustrated that email had changed to a matter of corporate record, but was still managed by the hierachal model. Exchange over a SQL store is still a couple of versions away which we believed created a great opportunity.
When Email is unlocked from the proprietary mail stores it becomes just another type of corporate data. Similar to financial information it needs to be very secure, but available when you need it (provided you have the appropriate profile).
Some of the benefits of AfterMail include:
- Providing a Flight Data Recorder for email. The Microsoft and Enron trials show we needed this.
- We provide options for IT managers. The active mail store can be minimized when all mail is available in an open, well managed platform.
- Mail server migration becomes much easier, and less expensive, when you don’t have to take the old messages and old accounts
- Valuable data contained in the mail system is readily available for knowledge workers and business managers.
- End users can delete any mail, knowing they can quickly, and easily, find anything they’ve seen at a later date. We provide full text seraching over email and attachments.
- Application developers can easily integrate relevant emails as part of their applications.
More information is up at www.AfterMail.com.
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