Press Release
POSTINI ANNOUNCES AVAILABILITY OF POSTINI ARCHIVE MANAGER:
ARCHIVING AND LEGAL DISCOVERY SOLUTION TO MEET OPERATIONAL AND COMPLIANCE ARCHIVING REQUIREMENTS
New Archiving Solution Enables Businesses to Leverage Postini's Leading Managed Services Infrastructure for Records Retention, Supervision, Litigation Support, and Deletion
SAN CARLOS, CA, December 7, 2005 — Postini, the global leader in Integrated Message Management, today announced the immediate availability of Postini Archive Manager, a secure, managed service that allows the seamless capture, storage, discovery and deletion of email and Instant Messaging (IM) traffic. Postini Archive Manager builds upon the company's superior Integrated Message Management services infrastructure to enable organizations to streamline the long-term storage of electronic communications and provide secure, controlled access for search and retrieval of messages without the installation and configuration of complex software and without the staggering ongoing costs of managing storage with multi-year retention periods.
"With IT organizations under tremendous pressure to quickly demonstrate a positive return on technology investments, Postini Archive Manager is an elegant and cost-effective solution for archiving email and IM," said Scott Petry, founder and senior vice president of products and engineering at Postini. "We have worked closely with our customers to deliver a product that is designed to address four fundamental requirements: to enable immediate and seamless archive capability without further burdening IT or corporate infrastructure; to remove the costs associated with long-term storage of data; to allow responsiveness in the event of litigation or any other form of legal discovery process; and to provide a framework for meeting regulatory compliance requirements."
As evidence of growing archiving needs, the Enterprise Strategy Group estimates that corporations will create 1.6 million terabytes of messages that must be retained to comply with regulatory requirements in 2006. Postini, as the largest managed service provider for email security, quarantines and stores more than one billion messages on a weekly basis. This high-volume, high-availability expertise puts Postini in a unique position to deliver a secure, available, and cost-effective long-term message management and retention solution. Postini's six-year history of leading the managed services marketplace demonstrates its ability to deliver solutions that exceed the quality, availability, and security requirements of its customers.
Postini Archive Manager operates in conjunction with Postini's industry leading email and IM security and management solution. Seamless integration with the Postini Perimeter Manager Framework provides:
- a single management console for defining policy across users and groups of users; across applications components; and across communications protocols
- reduced overall archive storage requirements, based on the elimination of spam and virus infected messages prior to the archiving process
- the ability to operate on data in real time. Unlike other "post-processing" archive solutions, Postini Archive Manager can process and assign disposition to messages in real-time, before the messaging cycle is completed
- centralized supervision, oversight and reporting
- zero incremental latency in processing messages
Postini Archive Manager provides a suite of management tools allowing IT or outside legal counsel to define access controls, set archiving parameters, and to monitor access to index and archived data. Inbound, outbound and/or internal messages and attachments can be captured based on a flexible configuration policy. Staff can generate reports that include analytics such as archive size, age of messages, pending deletion, and audits of usage and access. Indexed data can be searched in real-time, and results can be exported via industry standard data formats.
"As the volume of messages continues to grow, there is a strategic business imperative to archive these messages in a central repository through a completely transparent, scalable and secure process," said Mark Woodall, MIS operations manager, PrimeSource Building Products. "Postini has done an excellent job filtering out spam and viruses from our email and we look forward to their managed service approach to archiving."
Postini Archive Manager is available now. Please contact Postini to order, or visit www.postini.com.
About Postini
Postini is the global leader in Integrated Message Management, providing compliance, security, availability, and visibility solutions for corporate email and instant messaging. Postini offers a complete suite of services including message archiving and discovery, spam and virus blocking, and messaging continuity. The company's powerful managed services infrastructure seamlessly integrates with customers' infrastructure, providing uncompromising security for more companies than any other provider in the world. Postini's services protect organizations from a wide range of threats, reduce compliance and legal risks, ensure reliable communications, and enable the intelligent management and enforcement of enterprise policies that protect companies' intellectual property, reputations and business relationships. No other company does more to reduce the cost, risks and complications of securing and managing IP-based messaging for businesses. For more information contact Postini at 866-767-8461, or visit http://www.postini.com.
