Mirapoint Expands Suite of Messaging Appliances with Industry's First Policy-Driven Email Archiving Appliance; New ComplianceVault Appliance Archives Email and Instant Messages to Help Companies Comply with Various Regulatory Requirements.SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Mirapoint, the secure messaging experts, today introduced the industry's first email archiving See e-mail archiving. appliance that employs corporate policies to index and organize messages to help companies comply with legal and regulatory requirements on records retention. The Mirapoint ComplianceVault reduces the cost and complexity of archiving email by eliminating space-wasting spam and duplicated email content, as well as categorizing messages for easy search and retrieval. Policy-Driven Archiving for Corporate Controls Bundling indexing, management software and storage hardware in a single easy-to-deploy appliance, ComplianceVault can be attached to any email server See mail server. using industry-standard protocols. Administrators can set policies for archiving based on sender, recipient, spam or virus score, department or keyword content for any message. Working in conjunction with the leading enterprise IM solutions, Mirapoint's ComplianceVault can also archive instant messages to ensure compliance with various regulatory requirements. "Alongside email hygiene and mobility, email archiving is one of the highest priority messaging issues for our enterprise customers," said Barry Ariko, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Mirapoint. "By combining policy-driven email and IM management, storage and archival in an appliance form factor, Mirapoint has delivered an ideal solution for meeting regulatory requirements, as well as providing the ability to retrieve messages for legal or HR reasons." 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. a recent study from IDC entitled "Worldwide Email Archiving Applications 2005-2009 Forecast and 2004 Vendor Shares: When You Need to Know That You've Got Mail The audio announcement heard millions of times per day by AOL users. The voice was recorded by Elwood "El" Edwards in 1989 at the suggestion of his wife Karen, who worked in customer service for Quantum Computer Services (before Quantum became AOL). ," (IDC #34540, December 2005) explosive growth in email message stores and attachments, rising interest in email discovery and litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. support, and increased attention to regulatory compliance and corporate governance Corporate Governance The relationship between all the stakeholders in a company. This includes the shareholders, directors, and management of a company, as defined by the corporate charter, bylaws, formal policy, and rule of law. issues continue to drive robust demand for email archiving applications which generated revenue exceeding $310 million worldwide in 2005. "As email and IM usage continue to grow in enterprises and as more firms adopt record retention policies, the need for email archiving applications will continue to grow," said Mark Levitt, vice president for Collaborative Computing at IDC. "Although basic archiving functionality will increasingly be found in messaging applications, many organizations will continue to purchase dedicated solutions that provide a better fit for compliance and corporate governance requirements and integration with existing infrastructure." Ease of Use to Simplify Archiving in the Enterprise Other email archiving systems require proprietary interfaces or inefficient 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. interfaces to the email server, which can be intrusive, reduce performance and inhibit scalability. In contrast, Mirapoint's ComplianceVault logs in securely and passively in the background, behaving like any other client, then processes the messages in a separate, dedicated appliance. After the messages are secure in the archive, they can be erased from the email server or retained depending upon the administrator's policy settings. Ideal for organizations that must retain all email messages due to regulatory or legal requirements, Mirapoint's ComplianceVault archives messages: --Between users in the same enterprise --Between users in different departments --That leave or enter the enterprise To manage archival policies across different users, roles and departments, ComplianceVault can be set to aggregate messages from top executives, the HR department, instant messaging Exchanging text messages in real time between two or more people logged into a particular instant messaging (IM) service. Instant messaging is more interactive than e-mail because messages are sent immediately, whereas e-mail messages can be queued up in a mail server for seconds or , external email addresses or mobile devices into separate archives. Mirapoint Delivers a Secure Messaging Infrastructure A natural extension of the messaging infrastructure comprised of Mirapoint's Message Server email appliance See e-mail appliance. and RazorGate email security appliance Security appliances protect computer networks from unwanted data traffic, intruders, email spam, enforce policies, and may also be used to create and manage VPNs. There are a number of types of security appliances. , the ComplianceVault archiving appliance integrates easily into its environment without interfering with an organization's overall data retention or compliance policies. It offers an extra measure of protection for mission-critical email. Currently offering 1 terabyte of on-board storage, Mirapoint plans to expand to an 8 terabyte system later this year. To ensure fast and easy retrieval of messages, Mirapoint's ComplianceVault includes high-performance searching and restoration and allows messages to be exported in common .zip format. For added security, ComplianceVault supports external encrypted tape backup Using magnetic tape for storing duplicate copies of hard disk files. Users can add an internal or external tape drive to their desktop computers for backup purposes, and files are typically copied to the tapes using a backup utility that updates on a periodic schedule. . Pricing and Availability Currently shipping to customers, ComplianceVault starts at less than $15,000 (U.S. list) and is available both direct from Mirapoint and through its channel partners worldwide. About Mirapoint Founded in 1997, Mirapoint is the market leader in appliance-based solutions for secure message networks in enterprise, service provider, and education organizations, with more than 115 million mailboxes served and secured worldwide. Customers use Mirapoint appliances to build the messaging infrastructure that intelligently serves, secures and manages email. Mirapoint is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., with offices throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe and Asia. For more information on Mirapoint, visit its Web site at www.mirapoint.com. |
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