Local converged communications service provider, Internet Solutions (IS), has announced the launch of IS Mail Archiving Lite, a scaled down version of its IS Mail Archiving hosted e-mail archiving and backup solution.
By contrast to IS Mail Archiving, its full-blown e-mail archiving and backup solution, IS Mail Archiving Lite is designed for companies that want to bolster their current disaster recovery planning projects with a shorter-term stopgap that gets them through the first couple of days of a disaster, without sacrificing employee productivity.
The full IS Mail Archiving platform, explains Hayden Lamberti, Application Solutions Business Unit Manager at IS, is designed to provide SMEs, corporates and large enterprises with the ability to outsource their e-mail archiving and backup to a specialist, such as IS, that is capable of keeping the information in a manner that complies both with the company's corporate governance guidelines and the legislation in-country.
Most often, he says, this means all information is stored in a safe, tamperproof format for a space of five years once generated. “What makes IS Mail Archiving unique is its hosted, cloud-centric nature and the fact that it retains and stores e-mail, while offering the customer the ability to search and restore specific or all e-mail at either an administrator level across the entire organisation or at an individual level across a user's own e-mail,” Lamberti explains.
“Since many larger organisations already have this functionality on-premise, however, a full-blown solution such as IS Mail Archiving is often deemed overkill,” he continues. “However, those larger organisations have realised that when disaster strikes, their employees need access to their most recent e-mail and other business critical information in order to remain productive. And often, their own disaster recovery solutions take a couple of days, and in some cases, weeks to get users productive again.
“This is where IS Mail Archiving Lite is the perfect solution,” he opines. “It allows administrators and employees access to the e-mail activity in their company accounts from the past 30 days. This means the company can remain productive during that period, while a full restore is taking place,” he says.
Lamberti says another benefit of this solution is that it's an operational expense and as such, requires no capital outlay. “And notably,” he continues, “it's extremely cost-effective. Where the full five-year archive and backup functionality offered by IS Mail Archiving costs companies a negligible R75 per user per month, IS Mail Archiving Lite is priced at R20 per user per month for 30 days' worth of the same functionality.” This model is furthermore adaptable, should companies require more than 30 days coverage, but less than five years.
Lamberti says IS is extremely bullish about the response it will receive with IS Mail Archiving Lite, since the select group of customers that have been piloting the solution thus far are extremely satisfied. “We feel there's a real need for this kind of solution and look forward to its success,” he concludes.
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