Continuous Archiving
Organizations want to automatically preserve and purge email, while eliminating the need to search for personal archives on each and every local machine whenever litigation support is requested.
Retrieval
Organizations want to search for email quickly, with minimum effort, for reasons such as compliance and litigation support, recovering deleted mail and for data mining and knowledge management.
Policy
Organizations need to proactively develop formal content retention policies and deploy email archiving solutions to implement and enforce those policies.
Plug 'n' Play
Organizations want to protect the archived email from tampering. They need an external email archiving solution that works in tandem with the email solution but preserves emails as they came in or went out without any modification.
Reading Attachments
Email storage growth is driven by increasing use of email and larger attachments sent through email. Organizations need to be able to search for email not only by message content and header information but by content of attachments to get to the needed emails quickly and simply.
Reports
It is recommended that organizations review reports that tell them about the behavior of their archive with information such the capacity and performance of the archive to assure continuity of service.
Compliance
Record retention periods and rules vary by country and by industry. Some of the rules are prescribed by: SEC, HIPAA,SOX, FRCP and more. Click on the crossing guard to learn more.
Enkive: The new open source email archiving and ediscovery software
News: February 29, 2012 We are pleased to announce that Enkive 1.0 is out of beta and is available for download.
Enkive 1.0 is the result of a significant re-architecting effort that reduced the memory footprint and increased the speed of archival and retrieval by orders of magnitude. This, in turn, offers increased flexibility in terms of hardware requirements. Furthermore, the new architecture positions Enkive so that future versions can run on clusters and in the cloud.Subscribe to mailing groups to get updates!
“Former President Nixon would have balked at Enkive, a new open-source e-mail archiving and retrieval application from The Linux Box. That’s because Enkive captures e-mail messages as they arrive or are sent to ensure they are retained before a worker can delete them in an e-mail client. This feature helps organizations address the issues of compliance with laws and regulations governing communications, as well as litigation support. It permits recovery of e-mail in full support of an organization’s retention policies. In addition, storage costs are reduced by eliminating the capture of redundant messages and attachments.”
-- Linux Journal, July 2010
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Benefits
Data mining / Business knowledge management
An organization’s email is a record of communications and constitute its business knowledge repository...
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Regulatory compliance
By archiving all company email, Enkive helps organizations to meet regulatory compliance requirements such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act...
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Resource saver
Enkive reduces the time to access email needed for litigation or other business purposes...
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