EMC launches e-mail archiving solution for compliance

EMC Corporation, the world leader in information storage and management, today announced the EMC Proven Solution for E-mail Archiving, uniting leading e-mail archiving functionality from its LEGATO Software division with the industry`s most comprehensive lineup of tiered storage platforms. The solution addresses the business and regulatory requirements for e-mail compliance.

This EMC Proven Solution provides a unique three-tiered value proposition for customers. The e-mail archiving expertise of LEGATO Software and the tiered storage expertise, assessment and implementation of EMC combine in one solution for accelerated results. Backed by stringent testing, seamless partner integration and documented implementation methodologies, EMC Proven Solutions reduce customer risk and ensure faster deployment. Organisations can address their most pressing business challenges while lowering costs and improving service levels throughout the information lifecycle with EMC Proven Solutions.

Mike Karp, senior analyst with Enterprise Management Associates, said: "Regulatory compliance is now one of the biggest business drivers in deploying e-mail archiving solutions. Failing to comply with regulations can have severe, negative impacts on an organisation, costing them thousands - if not millions of dollars in fines. Organisations that adopt and embrace e-mail archiving solutions sooner than later will have a greater chance of avoiding legal or regulatory liabilities, enabling them to focus on driving their business goals, rather than putting out potential fires."

The EMC Proven Solution for E-mail Archiving leverages the functionality of LEGATO EmailXtender to archive and retrieve e-mail and attachments from Microsoft Exchange and Lotus environments. With EMC`s tiered storage offering, users can select the right hardware platform to address their defined cost and compliance objectives. For example, the solution uses EMC Centera Compliance Edition Series for guaranteed content authenticity and retention when strict regulatory compliance is required.

With this solution, customers can apply centrally-defined e-mail archiving policies to:

* Enhance e-mail retention efficiency;
* Comply with e-mail retention requirements and regulations to preserve corporate records;
* Deploy complete e-mail management with assured authenticity and easy accessibility to the archived messages;
* Increase end-user productivity by reducing time spent managing e-mail folders; and
* Accelerate Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes software upgrades and migrations by archiving e-mail in advance.

EMC also announced today that Adirondack Electronics Markets (AEM), a privately held market maker on the International Securities Exchange, implemented the EMC Proven Solution for E-mail Archiving to help them comply with e-mail retention and supervision requirements of the SEC and NASD.

Don Swatik, EMC Vice-President, Global Solutions, said: "More and more organisations are hard-pressed to demonstrate compliance with regulations for retention of documents like e-mail. Our Proven Solution for E-mail Archiving provides customers with an end-to-end solution that helps them worry less about regulations and more about driving their businesses. This announcement further demonstrates EMC`s commitment to driving customer-focused, integrated solutions from its acquisition of LEGATO Software."

LEGATO EmailXtender is a centralised data storage and retrieval system that makes enterprise e-mail easier to administer and use. It automatically moves data off the e-mail message server and into the storage system, capturing and indexing all incoming and outgoing e-mails.

When LEGATO EmailXtender is combined with EMC`s tiered networked storage, organisations can achieve increased operational efficiencies for day-to-day e-mail management and version upgrades and migrations using cost-effective storage platforms such as EMC NetWin network attached storage (NAS) or EMC CLARiiON CX with ATA. For fixed content archiving, corporate governance and regulated storage environments, EMC Centera, the world`s first content addressed storage (CAS) system, provides unique self-healing and authentication features.