I've written a journal entry at eDiscoveryJournal that details my analysis of the Iron Mountain acquisition of Mimosa Systems.  Check it out at http://ediscoveryjournal.com/2010/02/iron-mountain-moves-into-software-and-buys-mimosa-systems/

In my hometown of Boston, eDiscovery is suddenly a hot topic – and not just because of the launch of Murphy Insights ;-)  The upcoming mayoral election may ride on email mismanagement by one of the mayor’s top aides.  The story shines the light back onto the fact that all organizations need to monitor and manage how their employees use information.  Let’s face it - people are going to do what they want to do with the tools and information at their fingertips.  It’s the job of every organization to ensure that information usage is monitored and managed.  That means creating acceptable use policies…and actually enforcing those policies.  That means deploying technology that can monitor, manage, and find the information.

In the case of the City of Boston, it seems to me that something as simple as email archiving could have prevented this whole problem.  And now, the taxpayers (yours truly included) will pay for forensic investigators to come in and find all the emails that could’ve been found with one click of a button had the City prepared well.  It’s sickening.

Let me know what you think.