BlueFire Enterprise Mail archiving provides a software-based intelligent archiving platform that stores, manages, and enables discovery of corporate data from email systems, filer server environments, instant messaging platforms, and content management and collaboration systems. Using Symantec's Enterprise Vault, it uses intelligent classification engines to manage data, improving a company's ability to retain and protect corporate information while reducing storage costs and simplifying management.
Key Features
- Automatic Mailbox Management frees users from quota frustrations without compromizing Exchange performance and reliability.
- Eliminates .pst and .nsf headaches and removes the problems of backup, security, stability, and storage consumption inherent to these types of files.
- Centralized management of email content ensures faster backup of Exchange and Domino servers and controlled recovery in the event of a disaster.
- Archiving enables the retrieval of email content and corporate documents to meet legal and regulatory compliance requirements.
Key Benefits
- Eliminate mailbox quotas and message size restrictions. Provide users with a mailbox of virtually unlimited size while controlling message storage growth.
- Migrate all existing .pst file data into the archive, enabling IT to effectively achieve .pst file eradication.
- Speed up backup and restore times of Exchange, Domino, and file server environments by reducing the online message store by 50 to 75 percent through archiving.
- Retain a copy of all email messages sent and received, ensuring they are kept for the appropriate period of time to meet regulatory and legal retention requirements.
Flexible, policy-based email archiving
Take control over the ever-growing volume of email and attachments your organization perpetually generates. BlueFire Enterprise Archiving effectively manage email storage via automated, policy-controlled archiving to online stores for active retention and seamless retrieval of messages and attachments.
The purpose to help you take control over the explosive growth of vital business content found in email.
Email archiving and management
With Enterprise Mail Archiving, you can eliminate quotas and message size restrictions. Give your users a mailbox of virtually unlimited size while controlling the growth of storage resources. Admin-defined policies automatically archive individual mailbox email and attachments out of Exchange and into online Mail Vault stores. Shortcuts are left behind, allowing users to easily view or restore the original items transparently through Microsoft Outlook® or Outlook Web Access, or via extended Web-based search functions. This enables Exchange to focus on the dynamic handling of newer information while he software acts as a long-term repository for older information. Exchange Server performance is dramatically improved, and users can enjoy instant access to their email without the associated cost and management issues.
Seamless access to archived content
The true power of the software lies in the way it presents archived content back to the business. Indexing of archived email and attachments combined with seamless integration with Outlook, Outlook Web Access, and Exchange allows users to quickly and easily search and retrieve information Shortcuts and Web-based search functions keep users instantly in touch with all archived email content on both a mailbox and an organizational level. Whether a search is performed for large volumes of email or simply to locate a single item, the seamless presentation of the archived data.
Offline Vault—laptop access
Offline Vault provides laptop access to archived email even when not connected to the corporate network. Requiring low bandwidth, the software can be configured to provide users with a local Vault stored on their PC hard drive. When a disconnected user tries to access an archived item via a shortcut, this item will be retrieved from the local Vault, promoting access to important content wherever it is located. At the same time, the user’s email is still archived to the corporate archive, so it is not vulnerable to loss or damage.
Key technology highlights
Lifetime management of email Automatically manage the email life cycle from composition to deletion. Protect corporate intellectual property, retain access, and enable rapid discovery of content based on corporate defined policies. These polices can be defined and applied to an Active Directory attribute via LDAP, or even to an individual user.
Reduce cost of message retrieval, recovery, and administration
Save time and money spent retrieving and recovering old or lost email. Provide immediate recovery of key individual mailboxes.
Seamless end-user access and comprehensive search functionality
Shortcuts, integrated Outlook search, Windows Desktop Search, and Web-based search functions keep users instantly in touch with all email content.
Encrypted email
Enterprise Vault provides native integration with Microsoft Rights Management Services so that encrypted messages that need to be archived are decrypted and indexed applying the necessary retention policies. This also allows encrypted messages to be searched and retrieved in the event of litigation or regulatory investigations.
Windows Desktop Search
Enterprise Mail can be integrated with Windows Desktop Search to provide search features from a common, familiar search tool. This helps to keep knowledge workers productive, enabling them to quickly and easily find what they are looking for across multiple locations from a single search window. Searching from a single location helps users quickly find and retrieve messages and documents.