Symantec's new solution offers flexibility & control

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Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ:  SYMC) today announced  Symantec Enterprise Vault 7.0, the market-leading intelligent content  archival  solution that stores e-mail and collaborative content cost-effectively,  manages  it  according  to  retention and  compliance requirements,  and  discovers  it  to  support e-discovery and knowledge management.

 

"The  massive  growth  in  electronic content has become a financial and legal  challenge  for  all  organizations,"  said  Anand Naik, director, system  engineering,  Symantec  India  and  SAARC. "Managing more than 8 million   mailboxes  for  nearly  5,000  customers  worldwide,  Symantec Enterprise  Vault reduces IT and legal costs and information risk, while scaling  to  hundreds  of  thousands  of  users and billions of archived objects."

 

According to analyst firm Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), organizations will  archive  7,000  petabytes  of  e-mail  over  the  next four years, significantly  challenging IT to manage and secure these vital corporate assets.   In  addition,  ESG  states  that  approximately  77 percent of companies  responding  to  electronic  discovery  requests  have  had to produce  e-mail.   With amendments to the United States Federal Rules of Civil  Procedure  on Dec. 1, 2006, and similar standards and regulations in  Europe  and  Asia,  IT  professionals  are  being asked to implement systems to consistently manage electronic information.

 

"Whether it is for compliance, electronic discovery, or IT efficiencies, customers  derive  measurable  benefits  by  archiving  e-mail and other content,"  said  Brian  Babineau,  analyst  with the Enterprise Strategy Group.  "Enterprise Vault 7.0 enables customers to exponetially increase these   opportunities  with  automated  and  user-based  classification, enabling  the  consistent  establishment  and  enforcement  of retention periods,   a   key  feature  for  compliance  and  electronic  discovery deployments.   The expansion of support for content management solutions demonstrates Enterprise Vault's flexibility and scalability as customers look to consolidate the solutions used to manage records across multiple content types."

 

Intelligent Archiving

 

 Because  not  all  information  is  created equal, organizations need to manage  and  retain  it based on its value.  In fact, a recent survey by ESG  cited  63  percent  of  organizations  require  the  ability to set different  retention policies based on content or source.  While certain content  needs to be maintained for years, such as orders and contracts, other  data  such  as  personal e-mail and newsletters can be eliminated more  quickly.  Effective information management requires classification of  data  into relevant categories and enforcement of policies for those categories.  Symantec  Enterprise  Vault  7.0  offers  new  intelligent classification   capabilities,   which   allow   for   preservation  and disposition of content based on  its business value, including:

 

   · Automated Classification Engine  Reduces archive size and search times by categorizing and retaining e-mail based on 50 pre-defined or an unlimited nubmer of customizable rules types.

   · User Classification Engine Ensures a consistent and defensible records retention program by classifying all e-mail as each message is created or read by the user directly in Microsoft Office Outlook.

   · Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Integration Leverages deployed ECM solutions to define retention management, while storing, searching,and securing the content in Symantec Enterprise Vault.  Support delivered for EMC Documentum, IBM DB2 Content Manager, Open Text LegalKey, Open Text LiveLink, Oracle Stellent Universal Records Manager, and CA MDY FileSurf, on top of existing support for Microsoft SharePoint and CA MDY.

 

Best-in-Class Microsoft Exchange 2007 Integration

 

With   new   releases   of   nearly  all   Microsoft  collaboration  and productivity  products  in 2007, Symantec Enterprise Vault 7.0 continues to lead the market in leveraging new Microsoft technologies, including:

 

   · Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Support  Provides reduced mailbox sizes and elimination of the need for PST files and quotas, and facilitates faster migration to Microsoft Exchange 2007.

   · First Archive to Support Microsoft Windows Desktop Search (WDS) Improves user productivity by enabling  rapid search of files, archived e-mail and live e-mail from a common, familiar search tool.

   · First Archive to Support Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services (RMS) ? Ensures security and discoverability by indexing and searching RMS encrypted content.

   · First Archive to Natively Capture Microsoft Live Communication Server  Archives all corporate IM traffic without routing through Exchange, reducing server load and risk of data loss.

 

Enterprise-Scale Administration

 

As  customers  gain  more  experience  with  archiving solutions and the criticality of these solutions increases, IT organizations are demanding manageability  from  archives  similar  to  what  they  get  from  other infrastructure  applications.   Symantec  Enterprise  Vault  7.0  allows enterprises to centrally manage archiving deployments:

 

   · Secure, Roles-based Administration  Delegates common tasks to first-line administrators while preserving security by controlling what each administrator can do all on the same infrastructure.

   · Granular Provisioning Enforces different archiving shortcutting and retention policies for users with varying requirements (e.g., heavy users, executive users, mobile users or regulated employees).

   · Advanced Reporting and Monitoring ? Reduces the cost of management through automated, Web-based, customizable diagnostics and dashboards for tracking the health and usage of the archive.

 

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