Email Archiving in Exchange 2010: Are Third-Party Solutions Still Necessary?

by Rick Dales, VP of Product Management, Archiving

Proofpoint VP of Product Management, Rick Dales As you may have heard, Microsoft is including “archiving” features in Exchange 2010. While this functionality may be sufficient for some organizations, there are many gaps between the basic email retention features included in Exchange 2010 and the true archiving and eDiscovery needs of most enterprises.

Proofpoint is actively working on adding Exchange 2010 support to Proofpoint Enterprise Archive, our SaaS email archiving solution, because we strongly believe that most organizations will continue to need a full-featured email archiving solution.

Organizations deploy archiving solutions to address three main business problems: Storage management, legal discovery and compliance. For some organizations, Microsoft’s solution may help address some storage management challenges. However, legal discovery seems to be the most pressing driver for recent archiving deployments — and Exchange 2010 only addresses the most basic of legal discovery scenarios.

Additonally, Exchange 2010 doesn't address compliance concerns, particularly for SEC regulated firms, so these organizations clearly still need a third-party archiving solution.

I've received many questions from customers and prospects about this issue, so I wrote a comprehensive TechBrief. Click the link below to read the full version. I take a closer look at how Exchange 2010 addresses storage management and legal discovery needs and explain how third-party email archiving systems (like Proofpoint Enterprise Archive) can give you many more benefits than the email retention features in Exchange 2010:

Click here to read "Proofpoint TechBrief: Email Archiving and Exchange 2010" (PDF format)

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About Proofpoint Enterprise Archive and Proofpoint, Inc.

Proofpoint Enterprise Archive™ is a SaaS email archiving solution that addresses three key challenges—eDiscovery, regulatory compliance and email storage management—without the headaches of managing archiving in-house.

Proofpoint focuses exclusively on the art and science of Software as-a-Service (SaaS) and hybrid email security, management, and compliance solutions. Organizations around the world depend on Proofpoint’s expertise, patented technologies and on-demand delivery system to protect against spam and viruses, safeguard privacy, encrypt sensitive information, and archive messages for easier management and discovery. Proofpoint’s enterprise email solutions mitigate the challenges and amplify the benefits of enterprise messaging.