How many repositories do you need to do Archiving AND Backup?
IBM approach enables you to have a common repository to leverage your resources for both backup and archiving.
We enable: Mailbox management, Discovery, and Workflow around email archiving.
So from a disk storage or a legal requirement perspective, the ability to have an integrated, data-protected, and automated email archiving (with search), a company should consider:
How do they archive emails today?
Can end-users directly access archived email?
Are you able to consolidate servers?
Is your archive centralized or are they remote and local replicas?
June 2, 2007 at 2:59 am
Do not forget the need to consider three questions of growth:
-How many years of storage do you need?
-How many employees will you have at that time (growth or M&A)?
-How big will the average email message become?
Many email archiving products will require you to purchase huge disks. I even saw one company selling a 12TB disk. But, there are dirty little secrets. Most hard drives have a MTBF of around 3 years. And, as you fill up the drives, the processing power and memory won’t keep up. InBoxer does offer a virtual appliance version for IBM Domino sites that can work with IBM storage or other storage.
Roger Matus
Blog: Death By Email