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Datacraft Launches New email Archival Solution

Datacraft, IT solutions and services company, has unveiled a new policy-driven solution for archiving critical email. It addresses concerns regarding email archiving, including massive volume of email to be backed up, the time wasted in trying to manage email, inefficient use of storage resources and companies' risk exposure.

The Datacraft email archival solution works with Microsoft Exchange and IBM Lotus Domino enterprise email systems and enables companies to create an efficient, searchable archive for the retention, management and storage of corporate email.

"Email has become the primary means of corporate communication, which is both a blessing and a curse," said Andy Cocks, Director of Solutions and Strategy Execution, Datacraft. "From an IT management standpoint, dealing with email presents an increasing challenge, both because of the regulatory requirement to archive critical business correspondence and the fact that email storage needs are growing exponentially.

According to the Radicati Group, the average incremental email storage requirement for a 1,000-user company will grow from 200 GB per month in 2004 to 320 GB per month in 2008, creating an on-going storage and backup challenge. Faced with storage quotas, end-users often create an email database on their PC, leading to problems with security and reliability.

Datacraft's claims its solution enables these decentralised mail stores to be "ingested" into the email archive to protect existing and historical email according to corporate policy. Incoming email is automatically processed by the archive appliance which checks it for duplication and the need to comply with policy. Email is captured in the Compliance Archival Storage and kept in a compressed format.

Together these measures reduce email storage requirements by at least 50 per cent which, in turn, relieves the load on tape backup systems. As well as handling policy-based archiving the archive appliance also maintains a complete index of email in storage, making it easy for emails to be searched and retrieved rapidly, based on their content.

As well as automating and simplifying the protection of critical corporate email, the Datacraft email archival solution can be used to simplify messaging platform migration and upgrade projects.


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