Comprehensive compliance

Designed to address business and regulatory requirements for e-mail compliance, EMC has introduced what it calls the EMC Proven Solution for E-mail Archiving, which combines the e-mail archiving functionality from its Legato Software division with a comprehensive lineup of tiered storage platforms.

EMC says the new solution brings together the e-mail archiving capabilities of Legato and the tiered storage know-how, assessment and implementation of EMC. It adds that the offering leverages the functionality of Legato EmailXtender to archive and retrieve e-mail and attachments from Microsoft Exchange and Lotus environments. With EMC's tiered storage offering, users can select the right hardware platform to address their defined cost and compliance objectives. For example, the solution uses EMC Centera Compliance Edition Series for guaranteed content authenticity and retention when strict regulatory compliance is required.

EMC reports customers can apply centrally defined e-mail archiving policies to:

• enhance e-mail retention efficiency,

• comply with e-mail retention requirements and regulations to preserve corporate records,

• deploy complete e-mail management with assured authenticity and easy accessibility to the archived messages,

• increase user productivity by reducing time spent managing e-mail folders, and

• accelerate Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes software upgrades and migrations by archiving e-mail in advance.