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| E-mail Archiving and Disaster Recovery in a Single Appliance
SUMMARY In a Small-to-Midsize Business (SMB), messaging is usually the most critical of its business applications. Because of its ubiquitous reach, e-mail has become the preferred way of communicating business proposals, confirming agreements, and even sending purchase orders and invoices. As a result, an organization’s body of e-mail messages and their attachments contains vital business records and valuable corporate knowledge. The volume of data that passes through a company’s messaging system has become so great however that many now find it almost unmanageable.Organizations have different reasons for needing enhanced e-mail storage. Some need more capacity, longer term retention, and user accessibility. Some need to upgrade their e-mail storage to comply with regulations pertaining to retention of business or government records. Still others seek some assurance of ongoing e-mail continuation. Most organizations manage their e-mail retention by performing regular back-ups of their mail-servers. This helps restrict the size of the information store on the mail-server to a level that is optimal for server performance and conducive to regular maintenance. Old messages are removed from the mail-server but kept on back-up tapes where, if needed, they can be retrieved through a server-restore process. But because most SMBs do not have automated server restoration and because of the absence of a searchable index when messages are on tape, finding a message from back-ups is usually very time-consuming, cumbersome and costly. In the December 2006 edition of Storage Magazine, Editor in Chief, Rich Castagna, stated that the need to archive e-mail has become an issue for SMBs. He said: “Archiving is no longer a luxury item reserved for financial services and big enterprise data shops.” Many small-to-midsize businesses face a combination of e-mail storage challenges and as a result, prefer a single solution that can address all of them. This paper describes the typical e-mail storage needs of the SMB and how the NorthSeas Guard E/N is ideally suited to these requirements. For the full white paper please register below.
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