Automated Microsoft Exchange maintenance and repair from GOexchange

May 2008	Self-Service Outlook Recovery Tool Announced by Lucid8 Recovering deleted Outlook items can be the source of intense frustration for users and IT staff alike. While the items can often be restored from Exchange backups, the process is tedious, and consumes the valuable time of IT staff. Lucid8 and Dell hope to remedy that later this year, when the companies expect to deliver an integration point between Lucid8's DigiScope 2.0 eDiscovery and Recovery tool and Dells' Auto-Snapshot Manager for Exchange, a management utility that it ships with its line of EqualLogic PS5000 Series iSCSI storage arrays.

February 2008	Lucid8 announces Exchange recovery tool Lucid8 announced the general availability of DigiScope, a tool for copying, searching, and recovering individual mailboxes, messages, folders, attachments and other email elements within Microsoft Exchange Server without the need for a live database or preindexing. The software is capable of scanning snapshots, images and backups of Exchange 2000, 2003 and 2007 databases for search terms and can also perform nested searches for eDiscovery purposes.

February 2008	Storage Prepares for Court New products prove that legal and technological worlds are merging. Another Exchange specialist upgrading its wares this week is Lucid8, which will be demo'ing version 2.0 of its DigiScope eDiscovery software. The vendor has enhanced the previous version of DigiScope to execute queries across multiple sources, such as backup copies, while working with the vendor's DigiVault CDP product. Lucid8 also has made the solution easier to use with Outlook.

February 2008	Storage Managers Need a Legal Technology Taxonomy This week's LegalTech event in New York City has drawn storage vendors like flies to the honey pot. And no wonder: Storage plays a crucial role in supporting corporate litigation activity. Just ask anyone who's had a run-in with the feds over FRCP (Federal Rules of Civil Procedure) – or any one of a range of other current regulations.

February 2008	Lucid8 DigiScope Lucid8 announced that it will be demonstrating its new DigiScope version 2.0 at LegalTech in New York, February 5-7 in Booth 3400 at The Hilton New York Hotel. DigiScope is a powerful, flexible, cost efficient and easy to use eDiscovery and Recovery solution that enables legal, compliance, human resource and IT administration professionals to accomplish email related discovery and recovery tasks that meet their needs.

February 2008	Lucid8's DigiScope releases recovery package for Exchange Lucid8's DigiScope 2.0 is an eDiscovery and recovery package for Microsoft Exchange environments. Among the features of version 2.0 are the ability to deduplicate identical messages found from more than one source, to export search results in a single .PST file or to save multiple .PST files. Users can also repair .PST and .EDB files that have been corrupted. Further, DigiScope now allows users to view messages without requiring installation of Microsoft Outlook.

August 2007	E-mail Keeps Fuel Flowing For Port Consolidated, a leading distributor of high-quality motor fuels, lubricants and additives for markets that include Florida, the Caribbean and Latin America, e-mail is not merely a convenient way of communicating, it is at the center of its business, and critical to the company’s profitability.

July 2007	GOexchange: The Third Option If there's anything less exciting and appealing than routine preventive maintenance, I'm not sure what it is (although a root canal might qualify). This is especially true if you manage a Microsoft Exchange infrastructure.

April 2007	Top 10 Startups to Watch Startup Lucid8 is positioned on the nexus of two of the storage sectors hottest technologies: Continuous Data Protection (CDP) and email management. The vendor originally started life as a consulting firm, although this part of the business was sold off in the aftermath of the dotcom crash. In 2001, Lucid8 re-emerged focused solely on software.

February 2007	E-discovery, archiving vendors team up at LegalTech Lucid8 LLC and Autonomy Zantaz have also brushed up their email archiving products. Lucid8's DigiScope 2.0 now includes deduplicated search results, .pst export options, support for Outlook native views, read-only support for offline Exchange databases and the ability to repair corrupted Exchange data.

January 2007	Buying Guide: E-discovery product specifications E-discovery tools are designed to search through enterprise data in order to locate e-mail messages and other data that may relate to matters of corporate litigation. Discovery tools must be fast and far-reaching, using numerous search criteria to quickly process data from storage systems, servers, workstations and laptops. And, all of this work must impose little (if any) noticeable impact on network performance. The tools must also produce meaningful results that can be delivered in a form appropriate for litigation. The product snapshots in this chapter highlight key specifications for a cross section of e-discovery tools. The following products were selected based on input from industry analysts and SearchStorage.com editors, and specifications are current as of December 2007.

January 2007	Buying Guide: How to purchase an E-Discovery Tool As data volumes grow, it's increasingly difficult to locate relevant data. Data must be retained longer, and storage users cannot be counted upon to intuitively locate documents, spreadsheets or other data. This is a problem when dealing with electronic discovery (e-discovery) requests that impose a legal obligation to locate relevant data in a timely manner or face fines and possibly adverse judgments.

January 2007	DigiVault takes Bronze Product of the Year Award Lucid8's DigiVault took the SearchExchange.com Bronze Award in the Exchange Server Backup and Recovery category. One judge described the product as "a continuous data protection solution from a vendor who really understands the Exchange Server database."

January 2007	Lucid8 launches e-discover tool for Exchange Messaging management vendor Lucid8 Wednesday is expected to roll out software that lets IT administrators search for, discover and retrieve individual e-mails, mailboxes and attachments for e-discovery purposes.

October 2006	Fail-over friends keep Exchange chugging The solutions reviewed here can cope with almost any Exchange-related mishap, except Internet failures, and they do so more simply, at lower costs, and with additional flexibility or protection compared with the native Exchange cluster. Two solutions, Neverfail for Exchange and SteelEye LifeKeeper, bring true fail-over to an entire Exchange server. Two others, Cemaphore Systems MailShadow and Quest Availability Manager, protect individual mailboxes on one or more Exchange servers. And one, Lucid8 DigiVault, provides backup of data stores that can be restored to a secondary Exchange server. For maximum protection, administrators might choose to implement a fail-over system plus the CDP that DigiVault provides. (Yet another alternative is a high-availability Exchange appliance from Azaleos or Teneros. These solutions are installed on your premises but managed and monitored off-site. See our review "High-availability Exchange made easy").

August 2006	Lucid8 provides CDP for Exchange Lucid8’s new version of DigiVault backup and disaster-recovery software offers continuous data protection (CDP) for Microsoft Exchange databases. DigiVault 1.4 tracks changes to the Exchange database and stores the incremental changes as they are committed.

August 2006	Trends in Email Archiving The number of business records created and distributed via e-mail internally and externally continues to grow as the size of the messages and attachments increases. This growth is driven in part by faster connection speeds and partly by the fact that e-mail's role as a primary channel for corporate communication continues to expand.

January 2006	The difficulty of measuring the cost of e-mail downtime Many organizations use ROI analysis to make decisions about the deployment of new technologies or to compare alternatives when planning to deploy a new system. For example, when considering the value of a technology that allows online collaborative sessions as a replacement for in-person meetings, ROI analysis works quite nicely because most of the relevant costs and other factors can be quantified - the cost of the collaborative technology, travel, employee salaries, and other factors can all be determined fairly easily.

November 2005	Lucid8 backs up Exchange databases as new data is added Lucid8 is a Washington-based company that offers products designed to make Microsoft Exchange run more smoothly and more reliably, focusing on disaster prevention, optimizing Exchange message stores and providing more reliable recovery. The company's primary product is GOexchange, an offering that optimizes the performance of Exchange databases by diagnosing and repairing errors in them, compacting them for more efficient storage and tuning them for optimal performance. The company has just introduced DigiVault, a tool that provides continuous data protection and recovery capabilities.

November 2005	Lucid8 Ships Exchange Continuous Data Protection Tool Lucid8 is shipping DigiVault, a new continuous data protection product for Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5, 2000 and 2003.

November 2005	Lucid8 adds data protection to software lineup for Exchange Messaging management vendor Lucid8 this month plans to release continuous data protection software to help protect e-mail stored in Microsoft Exchange.

November 2005	Lucid8 Brings Out Continuous Exchange Backup Lucid8 LLC, the Bellevue, WA provider of disaster prevention, optimization and recovery software for Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Exchange Server, yesterday unveiled DigiVault, which provides minute-to-minute protection for Exchange.

November 2005	Lucid8 adds data protection to app lineup for Exchange Messaging management vendor Lucid8 this month plans to release continuous data protection software to help protect e-mail stored in Microsoft Exchange.

November 2005	Storage Clips: Bumper crop of customers for DR vendors / Lucid8 does CDP for Exchange Lucid8 LLC, provider of optimization and recovery software for Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5, 2000 and 2003, today unveiled DigiVault, which provides continuous data protection and disaster recovery for Microsoft Exchange. The software backs up data every time a change is made, and performs integrity checks on backups. Similar modules for SQL Server, Active Directory, IIS and other third-party platforms, such as Oracle's database systems and IBM's Lotus notes, are currently under development, the company said.

August 2005	Law Firm Solves Exchange Server Issues With Lucid8's GOexchange As one of the largest law firms in Texas, Jackson Walker offers expertise in many areas of the law and supports a regional base of over 300 attorneys supporting the firm's corporate clients. Those include Fortune 500 companies, multi-national corporations and major financial institutions with high profile cases in significant industries.

February 2005	In brief: Lucid8 releases GOexchange 3.1 Lucid8 last week released Version 3.1 of its GOexchange management platform, which includes new scanning capabilities, configuration features, scheduling controls and an improved interface. GOexchange is a management tool that proactively removes errors and inconsistencies from Microsoft Exchange databases so the mail server operates correctly and avoids unplanned downtime.

February 2005	Exchange gains maintenance medicine Lucid8 this week rolled out GOexchange 3.1, an updated version of the company's preventative maintenance software for the Microsoft Exchange Server. Next month, newcomer Azaleos will emerge from stealth mode with a managed appliance for Exchange environments.

February 2005	Lucid8 Ships Updated Exchange Maintenance Package Lucid8 is shipping version 3.1 of its GOexchange automated Exchange maintenance product. The update adds a new graphical interface that uses Microsoft’s management console, new advanced configurations options, scheduled automated system maintenance, and integration with enterprise backup solutions from Computer Associates, CommVault, Veritas, UltraBac and Microsoft.

February 2005	Lucid8 Ships Updated Exchange Maintenance Package Lucid8 is shipping version 3.1 of its GOexchange automated Exchange maintenance product. The update adds a new graphical interface that uses Microsoft’s management console, new advanced configurations options, scheduled automated system maintenance, and integration with enterprise backup solutions from Computer Associates, CommVault, Veritas, UltraBac and Microsoft.

February 2005	Lucid8 Fills Database Holes Lucid8 announced GOexchange 3.1, a product that aims to help enterprise Exchange customers cope with the increasing amounts of data stored in their e-mail servers -- and the potential increase in corruption as a result.