Zimbra is in the right place at the right time. Service providers are climbing over each other to cash in on archiving and the add-on services that can go with it. A couple of months ago, classification specialist Autonomy coughed up $375 million for Zimbra's rival Zantaz and Google spent $625 million to acquire Postini as part of an effort to improve its managed services.
Service providers' archiving tear makes sense when you consider the changing nature of compliance. The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP), for instance, once chiefly an enterprise concern, are forcing other organizations to face the same stringent data retention rules.
What's more, data of all kinds has acquired an importance unheard of just a few years back. From lost emails in the White House to Intel's storage snafu, this is one issue that will not disappear.
It's a safe bet the M&A wave is just rolling back for a fresh onslaught. Now that Zimbra and Zantaz have been swallowed up, will service providers and maybe even storage vendors start working their way up the email archiving alphabet? Watch out, MessageOne and Fortiva.Have a comment on this story? Please click "Discuss" below. If you'd like to contact Byte and Switch's editors directly, send us a message.
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