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MessageOne Announces Email Archive Managed Service With New Integrated Storage Management Capabilities
Reduces Email Messaging Data Stores by 80 Percent and Enables Users to Store an Unlimited Number of Emails in Their Inbox
| Source: MessageOne
AUSTIN, TX -- (MARKET WIRE) -- December 5, 2006 -- MessageOne (www.messageone.com), the leading
business continuity and email management company, announced new storage
management capabilities for EMS Archive that enable organizations to reduce
the size of email data stores by as much as 80 percent. Designed for use
by CIOs, compliance officers and legal counsel, EMS Archive is the only
email archiving managed service to meet the key "Big 4" enterprise
requirements for email archiving: storage management, legal discovery,
compliance, and disaster recovery/business continuity.
Superior Storage Management/Mailbox Management
Over the last five years, email message stores have ballooned as email
volumes -- and the amount of email saved by users -- has grown
exponentially. In most organizations, message stores have become so large
that the time required to back up and restore email has become too large to
comply with corporate requirements. As a result, organizations have imposed
unpopular email quotas that require users to continually delete messages.
MessageOne's EMS Email Archive is the first email archiving managed service
to alleviate the pain of large message stores while allowing users to store
an unlimited amount of messages. With EMS Email Archive's new storage
management capabilities, email administrators can set rules that migrate
email messages and attachments to the archive after a predetermined period
-- typically 30 days. EMS automatically moves the email, leaving the header
information and a "stub" that points the user seamlessly to the archived
attachment. The result is dramatic: administrators can eliminate mailbox
quotas and simultaneously reduce the size of data store by 80%, greatly
speeding back-up, recovery, and maintenance.
In addition to storage management, EMS Email Archive provides a secure,
cost-effective "store once, use everywhere" email management solution that
simultaneously addresses the biggest challenges facing CIOs and email
administrators. A fully managed service, EMS Email Archive securely stores
email offsite based on specific email retention policies determined by the
organization. Once email is stored, EMS Email Archive helps companies
ensure continuity and recovery, improve the performance of production email
systems, save messages to comply with regulatory requirements, and
facilitate rapid discovery and production of email for legal purposes.
Because it is a managed service, MessageOne can deploy EMS Email Archive
for organizations of all sizes in a few days, with a total cost of
ownership (TCO) that is significantly less than on-premise email archive
software. In addition, EMS Email Archive requires minimal ongoing
maintenance and no dedicated IT staff.
As email has emerged as the most widely used software application in
virtually every corporate enterprise, the need for email storage and
management has also increased. According to IDC (Sept. 2006) forecasts, the
email archiving application market will reach $471 million in 2006 and grow
to $1.004 billion in 2010, a five-year compound annual growth rate.
"Email is a critical application and businesses are struggling with the
complexity of providing policy-based retention rules for compliance,
managing the ever-growing size of mailboxes, making sure that email never
goes down (including BlackBerry devices), and that no messages are ever
lost," said Satin Mirchandani, President and CEO of MessageOne. "While
piece-meal solutions exist today to solve many of these problems
individually, our solution is the first solution that solves all these
problems with one easy-to-use and easy-to-deploy managed service."
In addition to superior storage management, EMS Archive delivers these
benefits:
E-Discovery
Email is admissible in court and likely to be requested during legal
discovery processes. EMS Archive makes it fast and easy for legal counsel
to search selected mailboxes or the entire email environment using any
search criteria. EMS provides sub-second full text search and retrieval of
all email and 370 types of attachments. Search results can then be easily
exported to a legal discovery system or to a dedicated Exchange mailbox for
legal review.
Record Retention and Compliance
Companies are subject to many laws and regulations that require long-term
retention of documents, including email. For example, Sarbanes-Oxley
requires public companies to save all business records, including
electronic records and messages, for no less than five years. At the same
time, all relevant audit-related documentation (including email records)
must be retained for seven years.
With EMS Archive, administrators are able to set granular retention and
deletion policies, ensuring that email messages are stored properly and
deleted at the appropriate time. Administrators can easily control which
mailboxes are included, or excluded from the archive, including setting
policies that retain email for different durations based on a department,
job function or other attributes.
Continuity and Recovery
When combined with EMS Email Recovery and EMS Email Continuity, EMS Archive
ensures that companies will never lose access to email and that no message
will ever be lost. EMS Continuity allows users to activate a standby
email system in less than 60 seconds and provide full email capabilities,
including direct access to the historical email contained in the archive.
Once the server is restored, EMS Recovery helps recover any emails that may
have been lost since the last backup.
Pricing and Availability
EMS Email Archive can be delivered as a stand-alone service or as part of a
fully managed service from MessageOne (Email Continuity, Email Recovery,
Encryption, BlackBerry Continuity, etc) which can be deployed in a few
hours, requires no dedicated staff, and can be easily administered from a
single web console.
MesssageOne's EMS Archive managed service is currently available, with
pricing starting at $3 per mailbox a month.
About MessageOne
MessageOne (www.messageone.com), based in Austin, Texas, is a leading
business continuity and email management company. MessageOne's suite of
managed services includes its Email Management Services (EMS)™ offering
that includes Email Continuity, Email Archive, BlackBerry Continuity, Email
Security, Email Recovery and Email Encryption. In addition, MessageOne
delivers communications and application availability services with
AlertFind™, the leading enterprise emergency notification and escalation
platform; and OneSwitch™, the only solution to provide automated one
button failover service for Windows applications. More than 1000
customers depend on MessageOne for its award-winning managed services
delivered from a global network of DR data centers.