M+Archive is a policy-based email archiving and eDiscovery solution. The solution integrates seamlessly into your corporate email system, improves server performance, lowers storage costs, and ensures compliancy for your organization. M+Archive is part of an end-to-end solution portfolio for email lifecycle management.
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If you’re like most organizations, 75% of your business decisions and intellectual property are captured, circulated and stored in your email system. That’s why email is subpoenaed in 3⁄4 of all lawsuits, and why it’s required for internal audits and requests for information.
If you can’t produce your email records "on-demand," your organization will incur astronomical e-discovery fees and IT productivity loss. Worse yet, if your policy is to delete email, your organization runs the risk of losing a lawsuit because it doesn’t have the evidence needed to defend itself.
Reduce the Cost and Complexity of Email Archiving and E-Discovery
M+Archive is the only email archiving and e-discovery solution that intelligently preserves your email records according to people’s roles and responsibilities within the organization, while dramatically reducing the cost and complexity of archiving email across your enterprise and producing them during e-discovery.
- POLICY-BASED ARCHIVING. Automates the archiving of email records and their end-of-life destruction based on people’s identities and roles within the company. Different policies can be set at the user, group, and organization level to meet varying business and compliance requirements.
- E-DISCOVERY & AUDIT. Advanced analytics and sub-second search technology let you search and drill down into millions of email records in a matter of seconds to reduce the time and cost of e-discovery. Audit trails are maintained to satisfy chain of custody requirements.
- PORTABLE. Enables email archives to be delivered to legal counsel and external parties in a tamper-proof, searchable, self-contained format during litigation.
- FULLY EXTENSIBLE. True application clustering and load balancing ensure maximum system performance and 24/7 availability, regardless of the number of users or email volume, to provide a true, enterprise solution.
- UPGRADEABLE. Can be combined with other M+Platform products for a comprehensive email risk management strategy that bridges security and compliance gaps.
Understand the issues driving the need for email archiving
Why You Need to Archive Your Email
The Drivers
Legal and regulatory requirements demand that your organization produce its email records in the event of litigation, an audit, or request for information.
Sarbanes-Oxley, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, HIPAA, and the rules of civil procedure require organizations to retain and protect the confidentiality of their electronic records because they are a prime source of information and evidence. In fact, email is subpoenaed in 75% of all lawsuits, and in some cases regulators can demand that old email records be produced in as little as 30 days.
The Problem
If you’re like most organizations, you can’t produce your email records "on-demand" because of outdated retention policies or archaic storage methods.
Email records get manually or systematically deleted within a 30- to 90-day period. Organizations that store email for disaster recovery purposes typically use back-up tape. The problem with backing up email is that previously saved emails are often overwritten. Back-up tape is also extremely time-consuming and expensive to search through, costing organizations $1,500 to $2,000 to restore each tape.
The Consequences
You organization will pay a high price if you can’t produce your email records on time, and an even higher price if you fail to produce them altogether.
The average lawsuit costs organizations $1.5 million, with 30% of the cost associated with IT-related tasks such as searching for emails. Failure to produce email records altogether during legal discovery means organizations don’t have the evidence needed to defend themselves. And if the courts determine that an organization has destroyed its email records, it can be slapped with a hefty fine and/or imprisonment. In fact, 84% of all e-discovery fines are due to email destruction.
The Solution
Your organization must automate the archiving of its emails and their end-of-life destruction, and be able to instantly retrieve them as needed.
M+Archive from Messaging Architects manages the lifecycle of your emails by intelligently preserving and destroying them as required by record retention laws and the roles and responsibilities of individuals within your organization, while driving down the cost of IT and e-discovery.
The Benefits
By archiving your emails with M+Archive, your organization will:
- Enforce proper email retention policies
- Comply with record retention laws
- Reduce the time and cost of e-discovery
- Preserve the authenticity of your email records
- Reduce your email storage costs
Learn More About M+Archive’s Features & Benefits
Modular and Extensible Email Risk Management Platform
Based on a modular and extensible Email Risk Management Platform, M+Archive is designed to provide organizations with a robust solution that supports true clustering and load balancing to enable multiple servers to work together.
- Configured to automatically detect additional nodes and cluster together for maximum performance and uptime.
- Monitors and identifies system nodes that may be overloaded and impacting performance before redistributing the workload to better utilize system resources.
Cross-Platform Support for Mixed Messaging and Collaboration Systems
M+Archive is an easy-to-deploy, stable, reliable solution that can be seamlessly integrated into current messaging and collaboration systems without compromising the existing stability or scalability of the environment.
- Facilitates full-scale messaging and collaboration system migrations.
- Guarantees compatibility with any future messaging and collaboration system by archiving into the system-independent XML file format.
- Enables organizations to quickly archive all email, email attachments, and other electronic records from GroupWise or Exchange Server (2003 or 2007).
Flexible Storage Management Options
M+Archive helps administrators enforce flexible email policies without breaching privacy and freedom of information rights, while tackling the nightmare of exponentially growing volumes of electronic data. M+Archive is a storage-agnostic solution that can be integrated with many third-party storage management solutions that offer tamper-proof content storage, including:
- Hitachi Content Archive Platform Integration
Offers direct integration with the Hitachi Content Archive Platform (HCAP) to fully leverage the powerful storage management of the HCAP system and offer tamper-proof WORM-based content storage.
- EMC Offline Storage Integration
Scalable to match the growing requirements for longer electronic document retention that arise from industry regulations; meets the most stringent regulatory requirements while maintaining the integrity of archived data.
- M+SecureStore
M+SecureStore can be deployed in conjunction with M+Archive as a primary or secondary storage repository for static archived data, such as email messages and attachments.
- Network Appliance NearStore with SnapLock Integration
SnapLock Technology enables tamper-proofing of data by creating read-only (WORM) compliance volumes; SnapMirror provides off-site replicated copies of data in support of an organization’s ILM strategy; meeting regulatory compliance, and redundancy, and ensuring data integrity.
Improved Records Management Capabilities
M+Archive includes several new records management features such as role-based access control and records management capabilities to help organizations better comply with government regulations such as HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley.
- Increases document security by focusing on roles within an organization.
- Helps to capture, classify, and manage electronic records throughout their lifecycle.
Enhanced Discovery Tools
The integration of the Discovery module in M+Archive, provides administrators with a robust set of discovery tools to help create intelligent archiving and information lifecycle management policies.
- Helps administrators make informed storage management decisions with the creation of comprehensive reports about the state of the message store.
- Provides detailed information to enable administrators to better manage their electronic assets through all stages of its lifecycle.
Integrated Scheduling Options
New enhancements to the job creation, distribution, and monitoring features in M+Archive offer a true enterprise-level of control to organizations.
- Provides a graphical view of all currently scheduled jobs in order to facilitate planning and job scheduling.
- Allows administrators to schedule a series of jobs to run consecutively, removing the need for continuous administrator intervention.
- Lets administrators dedicate a specific node to process jobs or let the software automatically distribute jobs.
Export
With M+Archive, administrators can select to automatically index exported archives.
- Able to export archived data to XML and PST file formats.
Single Instance Storage
In environments where messages with attachments are forwarded to many users, SIS enables the storage of a single copy of any archived message attachment.
- Frees up storage space and reduces overall storage requirements.
- Allows administrators to better control the flow and management of email attachments.
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Technical Specifications
Archive Server Requirements
- Dual or Quad processor Server Class CPU (or single CPU with Dual/Quad-cores)
- 4 GB RAM
- 50 GB hard drive space for M+Archive and related applications
- Microsoft Windows Server 2000, 2003 or 2008
Novell eDirectory
- eDirectory 8.7.3 or higher
Active Directory
- Active Directory for Windows Server 2003 or 2008.
Supported Operating Systems for M+Archive
- Windows Server 2003, Standard x32 or x64 Edition
- Windows Server 2003, Enterprise x32 or x64 Edition
Supported Databases
- PostgreSQL (requires PostgreSQL Server 8.2.4-1)
- Oracle
- MySQL
- MSSQL (2005/Express)
- MSSQL (2000/MSDE)
Index Server Requirements
- Dual or Quad processort Server Class CPU (or single CPU with Dual/Quad-cores)
- 16 GB RAM
- 50 GM hard drive space for indexing software and related applications
- SCSI or SAS hard drive in a RAID5 configuration with enough hard drive space to store expected index size
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 or 2008 Enterprise x64 Edition
GroupWise Requirements
- GroupWise 6.5.6 or 7.0.1 (or higher) 32-bit Win32 Client
Exchange Requirements
- Microsoft Exchange 2003 or 2007
- Microsoft Outlook Client 2003 or 2007
Corporate / Personal Archive Viewer Requirements
- Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 or higher
- Windows XP or higher
- Java Runtime Environment 5.0
GroupWise WebViewer / WebAccess Requirements
- Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 or higher
- GroupWise WebAccess 7.0
Outlook Web Access / Archive Web Access Requirements
- Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 or higher
- Outlook Web Access 2003 or 2007
Optional Storage Requirements
Storage devices that provide:
- Single-instance storage
- Encryption
- WORM functionality
Optional System Requirements
Supported Browsers
Internet Explorer version 6.0 SP1 (or higher) and Mozilla Firefox version 1.5.0.4 (or higher) are supported for use with the Web Administration Console and WebViewer components of M+Archive. However, if you choose to use Mozilla Firefox as your web browser, you must also install Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 or higher for your M+Archive system to function correctly.
Discover What’s New in the Latest Release of M+Archive
Release 2008.1
M+Archive 2008.1 introduces enterprise-class features to mitigate email risk and lower the cost of owning and managing an email archiving and e-discovery solution.
- New, web-based e-discovery tool with guided navigation.
- New storage enhancements and more options for storing archived email records to lower costs
- New enterprise functionality featuring full application-level support for clustering and load balancing.
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