Archiving
EMC will unveil enhanced versions of its DiskXtender and EmailXtender archiving products this week, in an attempt to give end-users more control over their own archiving and better Microsoft integration. (See Legato Intros Latest DiskXtender, EMC Vows More for Infoscape, and EMC Pounds ILM Pulpit.)
A feature called "user-driven archiving" has been added to EmailXtender, which is up against Symantec's Enterprise Vault products. (See Symantec Upgrades Mail Archive and Symantec Certifies Plasmon.) The idea here is that administrators and selected users can drag and drop specific messages to specially created archiving folders within EmailXtender. "You may allocate a three-year retention requirement [to emails relating to a certain project], so the admin can push that folder out to the people that are working on the project," says Kelly Ferguson, EMC's senior product marketing manager.
This could be particularly relevant in Europe, according to Ferguson. "With privacy considerations, you can't automatically archive messages in some European countries," she says. "Germany, for example, is very strict on ownership of emails belonging to individuals."
EMC is also introducing a feature called "Archive Monitoring" to EmailXtender, which tracks emails from the message server right through the archive.
On the DiskXtender side, the vendor has added the ability to build an index of Windows file system data based on file metadata or specific keywords in the text. This could be, for example, words such as "confidential" or "private." In previous versions of the product, it was only possible to search based on file attributes such as ownership, the date the document was created, and when it was modified. This feature is priced at $12,000, in addition to the $5,699 DiskXtender fee.
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