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Email Systems has introduced a hosted email archiving service to help IT managers store email to comply with laws and policies more easily and at less cost than buying expensive lifecycle management (ILM) or corporate governance solutions.
Users can access email stored at two datacentres via a standard web browser and the service applies compression and single instancing to ensure that only one version of each email is stored, thus saving space.
Email Systems' Chief Operating Officer, Neil Hammerton, said many organisations would prefer to outsource email archiving in this way because of the system's simplicity and lower cost compared with building their own systems based on more comprehensive storage and ILM tools from the likes of EMC, HP, IBM or Network Appliance.
"There's no infrastructure or training costs and resilience is built in because the data is stored at two physical data centres" said Hammerton. As well as helping companies to comply with rules and policies, the service also allows email to be used as a database from which users can search and retrieve files in seconds, added Hammerton.
"Businesses like this because it reduces storage allocation on their own mail servers and there is less need to worry about where those messages and files are kept." said Hammerton.
The new service costs around 4pounds per user per month, plus storage charges that range from 10pounds to 80pounds per gigabyte depending on whether data is hosted on write-once read-many (Worm) drives for compliance, or archived onto other forms of media.
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