Iron Mountain Makes Email Move
Posted by
James Rogers
March 10, 2007
The software agent also sets up a search bar within Outlook which lets users scan the managed archive when they need to get this data back.
At least one analyst feels that there is growing demand for managed email services, despite some users voicing their concern about the technology. (See Intel's Email Maelstrom, Outsourcing Email Not an Easy Choice and Email Gets More Outsourced Options.) "Because you don't have to deploy it in-house, you can get it up and running much more quickly," says Brian Babineau of the Enterprise Strategy Group, adding that managed services also reduce the operational costs of email systems.
Monday's announcement is not the first email service offered by Iron Mountain. (See Iron Mountain Scales Email .) The vendor already has an offering aimed at U.S. firms looking to meet SEC regulations for data retention, although this stores copies of the emails, rather than the emails itself.
Active Archiving for Email, which is also available in Europe, shifts the actual emails to MessageOne's data centers. Hegarty says that this will helps limit the amount of hardware in users' data centers. "We're drastically reducing the footprint of these local message servers."
Active Archiving is priced at $4 per user and $5 per Gbyte per month, although Hegarty says that discounts are available if users buy storage capacity in advance.
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