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Gmail and Sonian Selected Best-of-Breed Email and Archiving for High School
Easy to Implement and Use, Sonian Is a 'Set-It and Forget-It App' for Saint John Vianney Network Administrator
| Source: Sonian, Inc.
NEEDHAM, MA--(Marketwire - December 7, 2009) - Sonian
Inc., the trusted cloud-powered
universal data management company, today announced that Saint John Vianney High School has
implemented the Sonian
Cloud-powered email archiving and ediscovery service to meet its
seven-year email retention policy. Saint John Vianney chose Sonian because
the affordable hosted service complements its existing Gmail system, which Google provides for
free to schools and universities as part of its Google Apps for
Education offering, on both price and ease of use.
"When measured against hosted email and archiving suites, the combination
of Gmail and Sonian was still less expensive. As far as I'm concerned,
Saint John Vianney has a best-of-breed solution with the combined Gmail and
Sonian services," said Tom McKenna, network administrator for Saint John
Vianney High School. "Their SLAs mean they worry about the data by
providing capabilities that we could never afford, such as redundancy,
multiple data center backups, climate controlled data centers, etc. All at
a fair price."
Sonian also was easy to implement. McKenna was able to take advantage of
Gmail's option to configure and sort mail to another box and transition 140
mail boxes onto the new system in 30 minutes. "I set Sonian up
lickety-split; set it and forget it," McKenna says. "Gmail does make it
easy to flip between accounts, but Sonian also is easy to configure and get
up and running."
"FERPA (Family Education Rights and Privacy Act) requires schools to ensure
protection of student educational records. A simple way to achieve FERPA
compliance with emailed records is to archive them securely with Sonian's
hosted email archiving solution," said George Nichols, CEO of Sonian. "By
storing emails securely in the cloud, these records are retrieved and
viewed only by those allowed within FERPA."
About Saint John Vianney High School
Saint John Vianney High School is a
private, Catholic institution based in Holmdel, NJ, with over 1,000
students and a combined staff of approximately 100 teachers,
administrators, and support personnel. School facilities are the finest in
Monmouth County with 38 acres of developed land that includes athletic
fields, a "turf" stadium field, two gyms and a weight training facility
that support more than 25 varsity sports. Saint John Vianney is a
one-to-one Tablet PC school where technology is key to education and
communication. A ParentPortal allows parents/guardians to go online to see
their child's real-time progression in each class. Over 99% of graduates go
on to college and attend many of the most prestigious colleges and
universities.
About Sonian
Sonian is the trusted cloud-powered universal data management company,
which delivers archiving/storage, e-discovery and compliance services.
Global organizations rely on Sonian for its affordability, security, ease
of deployment and use. Founded in 2006, Sonian supports thousands of
customers on all major enterprise collaboration solutions including
Exchange, Notes, GroupWise, Zimbra and others; and enjoys strategic
partnerships with industry leaders Amazon Web Services, Rackspace, Axway
and IBM. For more information, visit www.sonian.com.