Archivas Selected by Postini as Data Archiving Foundation; Industry Leading Digital Archiving Technology Helps Enable New Message Archiving ''Software as a Service''.WALTHAM, Mass. -- Archivas(TM), Inc., the leading provider of digital archiving solutions, today announced that Postini, the global leader in integrated message management, has chosen Archivas Cluster (ArC(TM)) technology as the foundation for its Postini Archive Manager service. Postini has deployed replicated ArC systems in its redundant global data centers to provide trustworthy, protected archive storage for its new world-class service. Postini's suite of on-demand services provides spam E-mail that is not requested. Also known as "unsolicited commercial e-mail" (UCE), "unsolicited bulk e-mail" (UBE), "gray mail" and just plain "junk mail," the term is both a noun (the e-mail message) and a verb (to send it). , virus, and worm blocking, message archiving See e-mail archiving. and encryption The reversible transformation of data from the original (the plaintext) to a difficult-to-interpret format (the ciphertext) as a mechanism for protecting its confidentiality, integrity and sometimes its authenticity. Encryption uses an encryption algorithm and one or more encryption keys. and message continuity - with new and upgraded services being introduced on a continuous basis. It processes over one billion messages a day for the 35,000 organizations and the over ten million users it serves. The Postini Archive Manager service lets customers confidently, securely and cost effectively archive, protect, search and retrieve electronic messages to meet records management, regulatory compliance and legal readiness requirements. "When planning our Postini Archive Manager service, we invested a great deal of time and resources investigating and testing virtually every available archival storage solution on the market today. After extensive, hands-on testing, we concluded that only Archivas offered the combination of data protection, performance, scalability, flexibility and cost-effectiveness demanded by both us and our customers," said Scott Petry, founder, chief technical officer and executive vice president of product development at Postini. "ArC has delivered these capabilities and more. Its open interfaces simplified our application development and integration efforts. It meets our peak message input performance demands with predictable scalability. It leverages software- and hardware-based protection mechanisms to safeguard our customers' data and can be deployed on industry-standard servers on which we run our other application services See ASP and Web services. ." Petry concluded, "Bottom line, with Archivas we are able to deliver an ultra reliable service with predicable pred·i·ca·ble adj. That can be stated or predicated: a predicable conclusion. n. 1. Something, such as a general quality or attribute, that can be predicated. 2. cost and performance. This is something that we simply could not have accomplished with competing technologies." "Postini's demand for a long term, fixed content archiving platform that would serve as a foundation for the delivery of its archiving, compliance and legal discovery solution required it be very easy to manage and virtually limitless in its ability to scale, in addition to providing the critical assurance that archived data would always be protected and secure, as well as highly available," said Gary Voight, president and chief executive officer for Archivas. "Postini is recognized the world over for its technology leadership and uncompromising standards with respect to the service levels it delivers to customers. It has become the standard by which all other messaging services are measured. Postini's choice to deploy ArC in such a critical application is a seal of approval of which we are extremely proud." About ArC The Archivas Cluster (ArC(TM)) software is a comprehensive preservation, compliance and discovery platform for fixed content. It offers an enterprise repository with a single, global name space, immutable IMMUTABLE. What cannot be removed, what is unchangeable. The laws of God being perfect, are immutable, but no human law can be so considered. storage, file-level retention and other active, object-based policies. An ArC repository is searchable by metadata (1) (meta-data) Data that describes other data. The term may refer to detailed compilations such as data dictionaries and repositories that provide a substantial amount of information about each data element. and content. ArC offers customers unprecedented deployment flexibility. The software runs on standard data center servers and supports JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks) A group of hard disks in a computer that are not set up as any type of RAID configuration. They are just a bunch of disks. JBOD - Just a Bunch Of Disks , RAID or SAN-based storage. Customers avoid the proprietary lock-in of competing products because of ArC's POSIX-compliant file system, standard file formats, and accessibility through open data protocols such as CIFS (Common Internet File System) The file sharing protocol used in Windows. It evolved out of the SMB (Server Message Block) protocol in DOS, which is why the terms CIFS/SMB and SMB/CIFS are sometimes seen. The word "Internet" in the CIFS name has little relevance. , NFS (Network File System) The file sharing protocol in a Unix network. This de facto Unix standard, which is widely known as a "distributed file system," was developed by Sun. See file sharing protocol and WebNFS. NFS - Network File System , HTTP HTTP in full HyperText Transfer Protocol Standard application-level protocol used for exchanging files on the World Wide Web. HTTP runs on top of the TCP/IP protocol. , and WebDAV. ArC offers industry-leading performance and scalability, with wire speed data ingestion ingestion /in·ges·tion/ (-chun) the taking of food, drugs, etc., into the body by mouth. in·ges·tion n. 1. The act of taking food and drink into the body by the mouth. 2. and access speed, and current testability limits of 2.5 PB of storage capacity and 2 billion user files. About Archivas Based in Waltham, MA, Archivas, Inc. software lets customers store, protect and manage fixed-content data in the most open and operationally efficient online environment available on the market today, in order to meet both internal governance, as well as external compliance regulations. The Archivas Cluster (ArC) simultaneously addresses the need for immediate access to archive data while lowering the total cost of ownership. For additional information on Archivas, a proud sponsor of the CAS Community (www.cascommunity.org), please visit the Archivas Web site at www.archivas.com, email info@archivas.com or telephone 781-890-8353. (C) 2006 Archivas. Archivas and ArC are trademarks of Archivas, Inc. All other brand and product names in this announcement may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. |
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