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Message from the Director

To our valued clients, customers and friends,

As we continue to navigate through these uncharted waters, I want to share some additional information with you about Concepte of Illinois.

First a little history, we have been around, soon to be, 37 years of providing only high professional technical service and support to you and we are still doing just that. Concepte is providing government, manufacturing, medical, banks and our communities long term success and well-being stories year-after-year.

I will begin in what has not changed for our customers and friends, our attitude to continue to bring you the level of service and support that is right for you and insure that your high tech needs are met to help make sure your future is good and productive. We are humbled by the trust you place in us. It is important you know that whatever the future brings, Concepte is here to help you.

Expert Monitoring: Our experts continue to monitor your servers and networks when you are being distracted by the health and welfare of your employees and customers. We are helping maintain that data security when the bad actors are trying to take advantage of that distraction.

Service Options: We have a variety of channels to help you in ways that make the most sense for you: whether it is data backup and monitoring, data security and service of you tech equipment. We can and will be there for you. Just Call our service professionals to show you the path that is needed in today’s fast change world to help ensure you data is protected.

1:1 Guidance: It is important to try and stick to you technology plan as best you can. If your plan has changed, we can help you review your data protection and disaster preparedness to help keep you on-track to meet tomorrow’s needs today!

In these trying times, please know that our dedicated client service professionals are committed to getting to your questions as quickly as possible. We appreciate your patience if it takes us a bit longer than usual to get to your call. But, I promise we will and that we are here to help.

Lastly, in a period as tumultuous as this, it may be natural to wonder about the firm that is helping you stay on track with your high tech needs. If you are, let me assure you that Concepte is in excellent financial health with one of the strongest balance sheets in the area. Despite the volatile situation with the Coronavirus and the Shelter-in-Place orders our company is profitable and we have the resources necessary to ensure we remain strong.

As always, I am ho9nroed that you have placed your trust in us. If there is anything we can do to help meet your needs, please visit us online at CEILLINOIS.com or contact us at 800-267-4052 or find us on Facebook

Sincerely

Larry D Christy

Larry D Christy
Director, Concepte of Illinois, Inc.

FRCP – Email Storage

On December 1, 2006 the United States Supreme Court ratified changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP). These changes shift the rules of discovery in a legal proceeding from a focus on policies for electronic records retention, disposition and preservation, to a focus on procedures that will streamline evidence presentation.

Email and storage administrators must now answer key questions such as:

  • Where is the data in question?
  • What actions were taken to preserve it?
  • How can the data be searched and reproduced?
  • Just what is the company’s established data retention/deletion policy?

With our Archiving Service your organization will comply with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.  Your archived data will be securely captured, indexed and stored with multiple copies of auditable hosted email for easy retrieval search and discovery interface.

You can quickly and easily comply with all regulations imposed on your company.

To find out more – call us at 800-267-4052 – ask for Archival Support.

Email Archiving – Common Myths

Five of the most common misconceptions
about email archiving include:

1. My industry is not regulated, so I don’t need to archive.
2. Email archiving will expose me to risk.
3. My backup system is my archive.
4. Exchange 2007 solves my email archive needs.
5. Hosted email archiving solutions are too expensive.

From the executive team to rank and file employees, email has become the enterprise filing cabinet of choice. Much more than mere correspondence, email is now used to send and store critical business documents; contracts, proposals, marketing plans, employment contracts and in general the intellectual work product of most companies. To protect intellectual property and maintain compliance with rules and regulations, email must be preserved and carefully managed.

Email archiving is no longer an optional service but a necessary component of a company’s IT infrastructure.  The failure to provide effective archiving can result in fines, lost legal battles, and the inability to survive through periods of crisis.

A recent Osterman Research Report noted that despite the many risks of ineffective archiving systems, 80 percent of organizations lacked a “true archiving” solution and 75 percent “are at risk of losing important business records contained in messaging systems.” This research report also revealed several misconceptions about email archiving that often delay the purchase and implementation of an effective email archive.

As a result, these companies are vulnerable to costly lawsuits, fines, and the cost and time necessary to search for email manually.

Concepte provides email archiving both at our server sites as well as your location. Both methods provides you with the peace of mind that if or when you are called upon to present your emails to the courts that you will be able to meet the  Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) in a timely manner and at the lost cost.

Impact of FRCP on Email Retention and Archiving The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure govern the conduct of all civil suits brought in federal district courts. Many states have also implemented their own e-Discovery requirements based on these FRCP rules. On December 1, 2006, the FRCP was revised to include new amendments that govern the collection and production of email and electronically stored information (ESI) as evidence.

For assistance in meeting your federal requirement under the FRCP laws and regulations contact Concepte of Illinois at 800-267-4052