Email Archiving: Just Can’t Get Enough
Posted on May 20, 2008 by Stephen
One of the surest of sure things in the storage industry right now is the potential for email archiving solutions. There are literally dozens of products out there, with prices and functionality for pretty much any application. And the growing demand for letigation hold and search has made this an essential technology for any organization – just ask the President!.
So how will you make your choice? I previously talked about the essential differentiators, and now I’ve refined these into a more complete list I’m calling “The Eleven Essential Elements of Email Archiving”. I capitalize this because it is the basis for much of my recent writing and speaking: I just wrapped up an article for Storage magazine on the subject, to be published next month, and spoke on the topic at Storage Decisions in Chicago.
If you missed the show last week (or really really liked it!) and can’t wait for the magazine, may I suggest tuning in tomorrow for TechTarget’s Email and File Archiving Virtual Seminar? You can catch my session at 1:30 Eastern, with a live Q&A session following. Or you can tune in at 9 AM for the whole day-long extravaganza, featuring sessions from other good folks from Contoural and elsewhere.
jb
May 22nd, 2008
Question – the back end seems to be covered by this post and some of your earlier ones but have you ever worked with alternative backup/management solutions for email?
Documentum Client for Outlook (DCO) comes to mind.
The question for you becomes how do we deal with an increasingly “modded” outlook experience where data resides on Exchange and on a Content Server.
Stephen
May 22nd, 2008
That’s a really good point. As we expand the groupware features of email, and add more and more servers, we can find ourselves undermining our ability to archive all of the content. Sure, a conventional product might archive the Exchange content, but an Outlook user might have a dozen other content sources, from RSS to Documentum to ICS to IMAP, that would not be archived…
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