IT news: Archive One roadmap.C2C's Archive One division has announced a two-phase roadmap to open up the e-mail archive to a wide variety of business solutions. An Integration Framework and Application Programming Interface (API) will open up the archive processes and repositories to third-party applications and a variety of unstructured data Data that does not reside in fixed locations. Free-form text in a word processing document is a typical example. Contrast with structured data. See free-form database. from Microsoft Office Microsoft's primary desktop applications for Windows and Mac. Depending on the package, it includes some combination of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Outlook along with various Internet and other utilities. , Lotus Notes Messaging and groupware software from IBM Lotus that was introduced in 1989 for OS/2 and later expanded to Windows, Mac, Unix, NetWare, AS/400 and S/390. Notes provides e-mail, document sharing, workflow, group discussions and calendaring and scheduling. and SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) The standard e-mail protocol on the Internet and part of the TCP/IP protocol suite, as defined by IETF RFC 2821. SMTP defines the message format and the message transfer agent (MTA), which stores and forwards the mail. e-mail. The Integration Framework, available now to selected partners, offers a way for third-party applications to benefit from direct interaction with the archive administration. Customers will gain centralized control 1. In air defense, the control mode whereby a higher echelon makes direct target assignments to fire units. 2. In joint air operations, placing within one commander the responsibility and authority for planning, directing, and coordinating a military operation or group/category of and visibility of the e-mail archives as well as reduce potential points of manual administrative failure--key to managing compliance requirements Compliance requirements are a series of directives established by United States Federal government agencies that summarize hundreds of Federal laws and regulations applicable to Federal assistance (also known as Federal aid or Federal funds). . The API, available in the next release of Archive One, will open up the archive repositories to applications of unstructured data- Archive One will no longer be an Exchange-only repository; Microsoft Office files, Lotus Notes, SMTP e-mail and anti-spam applications will be able to use Archive One to store and retrieve data via the API. C2C (Client to Client) An earlier term for peer-to-peer (P2P), in which one user communicates with another user without going through a server in between. See peer-to-peer. has developed four types of partnership through the Integration Framework: 1) Enterprise Content Management: These solutions search the e-mail archive for key data in manages and attachments, and can directly amend retention periods in line with policy. 2) Compliance Providers: Solutions driven by the compliance officer can interrogate Archive One for search results, create new archival policies and change retention periods. 3) System Management: To assist with automated system operation, these products can dictate an archiving run and receive results or Achive One can take control of other applications, such as back-up solutions. 4) Value Added Resellers: As part of an archiving service, VARs can interface applications or create scripts to automate management of users (for example, add a new user with a certain profile), or read and write configuration and results data to/from other applications. The Integration Framework offers 3 methods of interaction: 1) Automation Services for programmatic control of the Archive One engine. It includes the ability to start stop, schedule and define policies, or to add and remove users. 2) Notification Services allow the user to be notified at various significant points in the archiving process, such as on completion of a run. 3) Open Configuration Formats for the storage of configuration and results data in standard open file formats, such as XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. . This allows customers, VARs and application vendors to read and write configuration and results data to/from other applications (for example, to customise a policy configuration from a third party application before running the policy through the automation service). www.c2c.com |
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