Email Archiving in Exchange 2010: Are Third-Party Solutions Still Necessary?by Rick Dales, VP of Product Management, Archiving As you may have heard, Microsoft is including “archiving” features in Exchange 2010. While this functionality may be sufficient for some organizations, there are many gaps between the basic email retention features included in Exchange 2010 and the true archiving and eDiscovery needs of most enterprises.Proofpoint is actively working on adding Exchange 2010 support to Proofpoint ARCHIVE, our SaaS email archiving solution, because we strongly believe that most organizations will continue to need a full-featured email archiving solution. Organizations deploy archiving solutions to address three main business problems: Storage management, legal discovery and compliance. For some organizations, Microsoft’s solution may help address some storage management challenges. However, legal discovery seems to be the most pressing driver for recent archiving deployments — and Exchange 2010 only addresses the most basic of legal discovery scenarios. Additonally, Exchange 2010 doesn't address compliance concerns, particularly for SEC regulated firms, so these organizations clearly still need a third-party archiving solution. I've received many questions from customers and prospects about this issue, so I wrote a comprehensive TechBrief. Click the link below to read the full version. I take a closer look at how Exchange 2010 addresses storage management and legal discovery needs and explain how third-party email archiving systems (like Proofpoint ARCHIVE) can give you many more benefits than the email retention features in Exchange 2010: Click here to read "Proofpoint TechBrief: Email Archiving and Exchange 2010" (PDF format) Find out more! Watch the replay of our web seminar, "Email Archiving in Exchange 2010: Are Third-Party Solutions Still Necessary?" to learn more about why your organization can benefit from a third-party email archiving solution, whether you upgrade to Exchange 2010 or not. To view this replay now, please enter your information in the form below and click "Submit." View our privacy policy here. |
About Proofpoint and Proofpoint ARCHIVEProofpoint ARCHIVE is a SaaS solution that lets organizations easily access, search and retrieve archived data in real-time from Proofpoint’s secure, state-of-the-art storage infrastructure. With industry-leading customer service, technology and expertise, Proofpoint offers customers a complete, worry-free way to meet email archiving, legal compliance and Exchange storage management needs.Proofpoint secures and improves enterprise email infrastructure with solutions for email security, archiving, encryption and data loss prevention. Proofpoint solutions defend against spam and viruses, prevent leaks of confidential and private information, encrypt sensitive emails and archive messages for retention, e-discovery and easier mailbox management. Proofpoint solutions can be deployed on-premises (appliance), on-demand (SaaS) or in a hybrid architecture for maximum flexibility and scalability.
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