Comments on: Email archiving software – the complete list

By: Walter

Walter — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:20:19 +0000

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By: Michael Pietroforte

Michael Pietroforte — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:13:28 +0000

Richard, in my view an appliance is just a common server with common software but with less flexibility. For example, it is often not possible to use the “appliance server” for another purpose. Appliances are nice for TV sets, but not for servers. I seriously doubt that appliances are cheaper. Hardware doesn’t get cheaper just because its use is restricted to one software application.

By: Richard Avila

Richard Avila — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:23:27 +0000

Why are all comparisons of E-Mail archiving solutions always limited to software?

Any software needs to run on hardware, be it a server or an appliance. Therefore, wouldn’t it make sense to mention appliances as well? Based on the experience we’ve had, installing, configuring, and maintaining a software-based solution was anything but easy and took us ages to get right.

We figured appliances would be catered towards small and medium businesses, but we found a solution that supposedly fits any size of business.

“EMA” from ARTEC IT-Solutions is an appliance based solution witch is currently working in an installation with several thousand mailboxes and around 70,000 E-Mails per hour. It’s based on open standards, and we were able to get it up and running within a day.

I’m willing to bet that most appliance-based solutions are more affordable than software-based ones and cost less in the long run.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:58:47 +0000

Thanks! I added the new suggestions.

By: Richard Giddens

Richard Giddens — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:24:42 +0000

We’ve been using archive manager that was already mentioned above.

It provides powerful email archiving and works well for us.

During the last year we were able to notice a significant reduction in email storage size. Archive manager stores only a single copy of all messages and attachments saving a lot of diskspace.

http://www.scriptlogic.com/products/archive-manager

By: Barry Gill

Barry Gill — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:43:30 +0000

@Mark
“stubbing” as a technology has been around for years. I stand corrected but I think that the term was coined by Enterprise Vault back when it was still KVS…

There is nothing new about removing data from the Exchange Information Store and replacing it with a placeholder.
What is interesting though is that there appears to be a paradigm shift in the (partcularly) email storage space to move thinking away from this technology because of the fact that it does not remove the problem, it simply introduces more and defers the original problem.

Having an information store full of stubs still keeps the database extremely busy – it is only the actual physical size of the db that is reduced, not the number of rows in each table, so database cleanups (offline defrags) are still lengthy and troublesome.

Barry

By: Mark Rieger

Mark Rieger — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:57:06 +0000

For those Exchange Administrators who are concerned with the size of their email stores, here is an interesting end user success story: http://www.mailmeter.com/news/20081105_StorageSavings.asp

By: Peter Marshall

Peter Marshall — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 09:37:20 +0000

@Rodney

Really? We recently evaluated Webroot against Mimecast and found the opposite.

Mimecast offered some good data leak prevention functionality and an excellent Outlook client which we couldn’t get Webroot to commit on providing.

The key thing in the end was that Mimecast offered a known cost for our archiving, compared with a variable cost with Webroot.

Peter

By: Barry Gill

Barry Gill — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 09:25:17 +0000

Rodney (disclaimer – I work for Mimecast) – I cannot knock my competition, but am amazed at your statement that they have “ALOT” more functionality.

Mimecast prides itself on its ability to deliver a single seamless solution end to end for all email management functions, and have an incredibly feature rich platform with very tight integration directly into end user mail applications such as Microsoft Outlook.

We do not deliver only archiving, but a host of other mail related management items such as message security, data leak prevention, seamless continuity, corporate identity enforcement, intelligent routing, work flow management and more.

By: Rodney

Rodney — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 08:40:54 +0000

We are using the Webroot archiving service after comparing mimecast and messagelabs also.

Its quicker, more cost effective and has ALOT more functionality.

http://www.emailsystems.com/archiving.php

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:09:08 +0000

Martin, that’s an impressive list. Unfortunately, you didn’t link to the products. It would be quite time consuming to integrate them in my list.

Jo, Barry, thanks! I added your suggestions to the list.

By: Barry Gill

Barry Gill — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:41:17 +0000

Mimecast Unified Email Management is definitely something that should be added to this list.
http://www.mimecast.com

By: Martin Tuip

Martin Tuip — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:27:01 +0000

While my list isn’t fully complete, I know there are a few on a similar list that I wrote about a while back.

http://www.archiving101.com/?p=6

By: Jo Woodley

Jo Woodley — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:33:28 +0000

You might also want to add Mimosa NearPoint to the list which is somewhat different as uses neither MAPI nor Journaling.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:37:32 +0000

Thanks! I added the new submissions.

By: Reed Irvin

Reed Irvin — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:45:36 +0000

Thanks Michael. This is a great start and you don’t need to convince me its an interesting topic. Here at CA, Inc. we also provide market leading email archiving through CA Message Manager. More info is available here: http://www.ca-ig.com/products/message_manager. In addition we feel strongly that email archiving should be part of an overall information governance approach to enterprise content control. Having the ability to apply retention rules to all content, not just what’s in the email archive is equally important. Information overload is commonly noted as the number one issue organizations face today. More info on this can be found at: http://www.ca.com/us/information-governance-solution.aspx.

By: Ian Hassard

Ian Hassard — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 04:27:33 +0000

If we’re going to extend the list to software and appliance solutions, freedom9 has a solution for email archiving. http://www.freedom9.com

Cheers,
Ian

By: Sonian

Sonian — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:15:52 +0000

Sonian provides a revolutionary new hosted email archiving service leveraging cloud computing infrastructure to achieve an extremely high level of scalability, security and affordability. Sonian uniquely supports customers of all sizes regardless of messaging platform.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:00:16 +0000

Another solution is Trend Micro Message Archiver:

http://us.trendmicro.com/us/products/mb/message-archiver/index.html

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:48:15 +0000

Thanks a lot! I added your suggestions to the list.