AttachSTOR Announces General Availability of Its Flagship Attachment Management Product; AttachSTOR Provides 50 Percent Reduction in Email Storage.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 3, 2002 AttachSTOR Inc., a leading provider of attachment management technology, today announced general availability of the company's core product in its Email Resource Management Suite -- AttachSTOR for Microsoft Exchange Messaging and groupware software for Windows from Microsoft. Exchange Server is an Internet-compliant e-mail system that runs under Windows NT/2000 and Windows Server 2003. It can be accessed by Web browsers, the Exchange client, versions of Outlook and the earlier Windows Inbox. and AttachSTOR for Lotus Domino. An innovative approach to reduce the growing IT costs of managing email storage, AttachSTOR is an enterprise software solution that addresses the cause of the rising storage demands, network bandwidth consumption, increasing email servers See mail server. , and administrative costs administrative costs, n.pl the overhead expenses incurred in the operation of a dental benefits program, excluding costs of dental services provided. associated with email traffic -- attachments. In most businesses, attachments consume approximately 90 percent of total email resources. AttachSTOR, installed seamlessly alongside a Microsoft Exchange or Lotus Domino messaging system Software that provides an electronic mail delivery system. It is made up of the following functional components, which may be packaged together or independently. Mail User Agent , utilizes StorOnce(TM), a patent-pending technology that eliminates the storage load of duplicate DUPLICATE. The double of anything. 2. It is usually applied to agreements, letters, receipts, and the like, when two originals are made of either of them. Each copy has the same effect. attachments by storing them once on the AttachSTOR server. AttachSTOR also employs the use of compression, 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 a binary differencing engine to provide a complete solution for email system management. This unique approach reduces total email storage requirements, provides faster email download times for remote users, reduces the loads placed on network bandwidth resources, and cuts IT administration costs "AttachSTOR is taking a very different market approach to reducing the growing costs of email management," stated Gary Legner, co-founder and vice president of marketing for AttachSTOR. "Instead of simply applying temporary fixes such as stricter policy management or increased storage capacity, we deal with the cause of the issue. By storing the attachments only once in a way that is completely transparent to the user, identifying the types of attachments being stored, and utilizing compression and encryption for increased efficiency and security, we are able to provide a solution that can cut the costs of email storage by 50 percent. This approach allows for 3 to 4 years of email growth with the customer's existing capacity and provides the basis for a 6-9 month ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). ." According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. leading industry analyst, Sara Radicati, president of The Radicati Group, "Email has become the most dominant business tool in existence today and thereby requires the increased attention of IT organizations to ensure its proper management. AttachSTOR is the first attachment management product that deals effectively with the email attachment See e-mail attachment. dilemma." AttachSTOR offers a free comprehensive diagnostic tool called AttachSTOR-Veyor, available at www.attachstor.com, which provides useful information about a company's email storage environment including reports on the percentage of messages with attachments and percentage of storage consumed by these messages; the percentage of attachments attributed to duplicate files and file revisions; attachment aging; email server load; and types of attachments being stored. This information can then be used to model a very accurate return on investment associated with the implementation of the AttachSTOR solution. AttachSTOR for Microsoft Exchange and AttachSTOR for Lotus Domino are available immediately through the AttachSTOR reseller An organization that sells hardware and software to the general public. Resellers purchase products from software publishers and hardware manufacturers. network. Pricing for the product is dependent on the size of organization, with an approximate cost of $50-75 per user. A complete white paper on attachment management and the AttachSTOR solution has been published by The Radicati Group and is available at www.attachstor.com. About AttachSTOR Founded in 2001, AttachSTOR is First in Attachment Management. The company is an enterprise-level software vendor that is first-to-market with a comprehensive solution for attachment management. The company has developed patent-pending technology that targets the No. 1 problem for email systems -- attachments. AttachSTOR maintains a site on the World Wide Web at www.attachstor.com. |
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