Originally published February 23 2006
Clearwell launches product that sifts through millions of emails
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
According to Aaref Hilaly, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, email has become a way to know what really occurs within a company. Other start-ups like Orchestria and MessageGate offer email search tools.
As director of enterprise security at Constellation Energy, Petruzzi is the go-to guy whenever regulators request e-mail records from the $12.5 billion Baltimore utility and energy wholesaler.
For years, Petruzzi has spent more than his fair share of weekends and long nights at the office, combing through terabytes of data on e-mail servers.
"We're talking about large amounts of data: millions of e-mails over a three-to-six-month period among hundreds of employees," Petruzzi said.
Hilaly says the time is ripe for innovation as lawyers, regulators and executives come to view e-mail as a major source of evidence and facts.
What's new: Fulfilling requests from regulators, lawyers and courts for e-mail records used to take teams of people days as they examined millions of entries for relevant information.
But software entrepreneurs have developed programs designed to make e-mail sleuthing almost as easy as a Google search.
Bottom line: In addition to e-mail search programs offered by start-ups such as Clearwell Systems, Orchestra and MessageGate, larger firms such as EMC offer their own archiving and search options.
The product makes sifting through millions of e-mails to find relevant messages almost as easy as an Internet keyword search on Google, Hilaly said.
"The business climate has changed a lot in the last few years, post-Enron and post-Eliot Spitzer," said Hilaly, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur tapped by Sequoia Capital to run Clearwell.
A typical request for e-mail in a legal discovery situation requires 1,300 hours of labor and costs more than $100,000, Clearwell estimated.
For example, EMC touts its ability to search e-mail, instant messages and other business data across multiple systems, including Microsoft Exchange Server and IBM Lotus Domino server.
It's also readying a new legal investigator tool, which offers "evidence production" features, for release in a couple of months.
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