EMC EmailXtender - for Exchange

Lower costs, enable compliance and mitigate risk

Email is the lifeblood of business.  IT managers are overburdened by requests to find and restore emails.   CEO's and Partners are concerned with safeguarding their important email assets while maintaining accountability of corporate communications.  In order to manage storage costs while ensuring corporate guidelines for electronic correspondence, a new approach to email management is required.

EmailXtender® (EX) is a centralised data storage and retrieval system that makes enterprise email easier to administer and use. It automatically moves data off the email message server and into an email archival system, capturing and indexing all incoming and outgoing emails. EmailXtender provides fast access to stored emails, enables quick email restoration after virus attacks and helps reduce server backup time.

Pro-active mailbox growth management

EmailXtender helps to reduce to reduce the size of your storage and increases the performance of your Exchange server by storing unaltered copies of messages and attachments in a centralised inline archive for cost-effective, long-term retention. As the full message is no longer stored on the Exchange server, EmailXtender for Exchange reduces the burden of storing older messages and attachments in the production environment.

Flexible message capture

By using EmailXtender, administrators can create retention policies as required by business rules or regulatory requirement. EmailXtender for Exchange real-time capture ensures a 100% complete and authentic archive, while collecting all relevant email, attachments, IM and Meta data.

Another option to automate email message capture is User Directed Archiving, which allows users to classify important emails and attachments. Via a simple drag and drop interface within their mailbox, users can archive messages into pre-defined EmailXtender folders with set retention periods.

Reduced time and cost of legal discovery

Companies without a comprehensive email management system face great risk related to electronic discovery. A litigation or discovery request related to email can be costly and time-consuming, especially if it requires content to be retrieved from disparate locations or backup tapes. Messages stored in an EmailXtender for Exchange email archive can be retrieved quickly and easily regardless of where the message may be physically located. Full Text Indexing of the message content, subject line and attachments combined with powerfull search filters (either in Outlook or EmailXtender) increase your search accuracy and speed, resulting in emails being found in minutes as opposed to hours, days or even months.

Seamless Exchange support

EmailXtender for Exchange seamlessly integrates into the Outlook client, which presents a unified and well known user interface to the user, resulting in minimal training requirements. EmailXtender automatically archives email messages in their original format, so that message fidelity is preserved. Additionally EmailXtender for Exchange provides heterogeneous platform support which results in the ability to archive all electronic communications in the same central archive.

The SDT archiving solution

SDT offers our customers a comprehensive range of archiving solutions including software based systems such as EMC EmailXtender - Archive Edition, EMC EmailXtender - For Exchange, EMC DiskXtender. These software solutions when combined with a LeftHand Networks iSCSI SAN can deliver a cost effective and reliable archiving platform.

The next step

To learn more about EmailXtender for Exchange or how SDT can help you implement or support an archiving process call us on 01344 870 062 alternatively fill out this online form and an archiving consulant will contact you.