SEC chooses Legato for e-mail management

Local LEGATO distributor, AmVia, has announced that the EMC Corporation and its LEGATO Software division, has been selected by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the US regulator of the securities markets, to help manage the constant inbound and outbound flow of e-mail as well as e-mail archiving and storage.

The SEC`s Office of Information Technology had an initiative in place to meet two major business objectives for thousands of mailboxes in an Exchange environment. The first was to reduce the growing size of the Exchange messaging databases by efficiently migrating mail off the message servers to specialised and more affordable online archive storage. The second was to improve e-mail archive search capabilities to enable ready access to and production of e-mail files as needed.

Howard Elias, EMC`s Executive Vice-President of Corporate Marketing and Office of Technology, said: "As evidenced by our work with the SEC, the combined value of EMC and our LEGATO Software division has never been more pronounced. The EMC/Legato solution will substantially improve the SEC`s ability to manage and access its e-mail databases and, to that extent, enable the SEC to perform its mission more efficiently."

With LEGATO EmailXtender and DiskXtender, data automatically moves off the e-mail message server and into the Centera Compliance Edition content addressed storage (CAS) system, capturing and indexing all incoming and outgoing e-mails. By seamlessly extending e-mail message stores into EMC Centera, e-mail server stress and bottlenecks are reduced, lowering the total cost of ownership.

LEGATO EmailXtender is a centralised data storage and retrieval system that automatically collects, organises, retains and retrieves e-mail messages/attachments, supporting Microsoft Exchange/Outlook, Lotus Notes/Domino, Unix Sendmail and Bloomberg Mail. This scalable, comprehensive, policy-based system moves data off the e-mail message server and into the storage system, capturing and indexing all incoming and outgoing e-mails. EmailXtender provides fast access to stored e-mails, enables quick e-mail restoration and helps reduce server backup time, allowing organisations to reduce TCO and comply with organisational or industry regulations.

AmVia`s Kevin Hurwitz concludes: "The SEC`s decision to deploy LEGATO EmailXtender and DiskXtender further solidifies the fact that we have one of the most consummate information lifecycle offerings in the industry. The SEC`s decision should serve as a benchmark for companies in SA for enterprise data storage and content management for electronic messaging."