In-Depth
E-mail management tool landscape
- By Alan Radding
- August 1, 2005
In his Gartner “Magic Quadrant for E-mail Active Archiving Market”
report in 2005, Chin identifies the following product requirements:
- Capture and archive all e-mail messages entering and leaving the company,
plus messages between users on an e-mail server, as unique indexed records
- Provide access to the archive via a Web client and through the e-mail client
- Include auditing to track access to archived records
- Support the secure storage of increasingly large archives, offering multiple
storage options for the archive, including disk, optical, write once/read
many optical tape and emerging devices
- Exploit hierarchical storage management to automatically prune the active
e-mail data store for more efficient operation
- Offer personal data store migration tools and temporary offline local store
options to eliminate the storage of e-mail messages outside the control of
the archive system
- Include tools for sampling and management of the compliance process
- Package or integrate with tools to manage the discovery process, narrowing
the search and managing the steps needed to deliver records
- Integrate a robust records retention management solution to manage the
lifecycle of the records to ensure proper retention and deletion
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About the Author
Alan Radding is a freelance technology writer in Newton, Mass. He can be reached at [email protected].