Email archiving is emerging as a critical new IT application for managing email. For legal discovery, storage management, and regulatory compliance, email archiving provides important benefits that cannot be achieved with native email applications. The purpose of this “Email Archiving 101” paper is to provide a basic introduction to email archiving and explain how it benefits management of the email application server. The leading enterprise email application is Microsoft® Exchange Server, and this paper is geared toward this application; however, the principles discussed apply to all messaging applications.
INFORMATION IMMEDIACY, DISCWhite Paper OVEMimosaT NearPointT for Microsoft® RBy Bob Spurzem Y Exchange ServerMimosa Systems, Inc. & Email Archiving 101 COSeptember 2007 NTINUITYINFORMATIOCONTENTS Introduction............................................................................................. 3 N Email Storage Management...................................................................... 4 IMOffline Email Storage Management............................................................ 5 MEEmail Compliance Support........................................................................ 6 DILegal Discovery....................................................................................... 7 ACRetention and Disposition.......................................................................... 8 Y, Exchange Migration................................................................................. 9 DExchange Local Recovery.........................................................................10 ISCExchange Disaster Recovery.....................................................................10 OVUnified Messaging Management..............................................................11 ERConclusion............................................................................................ 12 Y & CONTINUITY
Mimosa Systems Inc. | 3200 Coronado Drive, Santa Clara, CA 95054 | www.mimosasystems.com | 408-970-9070INFORMIntroduction ATIEmail archiving is emerging as a critical new IT application for managing email. For Olegal discovery, storage management, and regulatory compliance, email archiving Nprovides important benefits that cannot be achieved with native email applications. The purpose of this "Email Archiving 101" paper is to provide a basic introduction Ito email archiving and explain how it benefits management of the email application Mserver. The leading enterprise email application is Microsoft® Exchange Server, Mand this paper is geared toward this application; however, the principles discussed Eapply to all messaging applications. DIIn each section, we will address a key issue or problem regarding email and how Aemail archiving addresses this problem. Beginning with basic issues surrounding Cemail storage, we will go on to address other important issues that impact email Yrecovery, legal discovery, and regulatory compliance. Because email touches ,every person in the organization and because email contains content that is often considered a record of business, careful management and archiving of email is Dcritical. Email archiving is the application that extends and improves basic email Iapplication servers for the benefit of the organization. SCMimosa Systems, Inc. develops and markets an email archiving solution called OMimosaT NearPointT for Microsoft Exchange Server. Mimosa NearPoint is a next-gen- Veration email archiving solution that delivers archiving, eDiscovery, recovery, disaster Erecovery, and storage management in a single integrated solution. For managing RYExchange Server, NearPoint performs multiple important functions that improve the overall performance of Exchange. NearPoint: &. Reduces and manages online and offline email storage. C. Adds powerful tools for legal discovery and compliance. ON. Extends native Exchange recovery capability. TINThis paper will enable you to gain a deep understanding of the many important benefits of email archiving and Mimosa NearPoint for Microsoft Exchange Server. UITY
3 Mimosa Systems Inc. | 3200 Coronado Drive, Santa Clara, CA 95054 | www.MimosaSystems.com | 408-970-9070INFORMEmail Storage Management ATIStorage of email on the messaging server has been a critical issue ever since email Oapplications were first deployed. When disk drives were 9GB and mailboxes were 5MB Nin size, storage was obviously very critical. Even with the new large-capacity disks avail- Iable today, email storage space is still critical. Many users keep email for years, and it Mcan consume many gigabytes of mailbox capacity. MEEmail archiving solutions reduce storage on the email server through a process called D"stubbing" or "short-cutting." The basic process involves making a copy of the email and IAthe attachment in the archive, then deleting the email and the attachment from the email Cserver and replacing it with a small stub file. The final step is to insert a small bit of co... [download for more]
