PostPath, creator of the only email and collaboration server that is a
drop-in alternative to Microsoft Exchange, today launched the PostPath
Server Archive Edition. For the first time, simple, inexpensive and
efficient email archiving is available to small- and medium-sized
businesses (SMBs) that need to retain copies of some or all of their
email communications, but lack the time and resources to implement more
complicated and expensive third-party Exchange archiving solutions.
As email has grown to become one of the primary methods of communication
for businesses of all sizes, maintaining complete email archives has
become increasingly important. This is particularly true for businesses
required to comply with regulations such as the Federal Rules of Civil
Procedures surrounding eDiscovery (FRCP) –
which applies to any U.S. business that finds itself involved in
litigation – as well as Sarbanes-Oxley and the
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
Today, businesses looking to implement email eDiscovery with Microsoft
Exchange face an unpalatable choice. They can implement high-end
third-party solutions that interface with Exchange’s
Journaling mechanism, but these solutions are expensive and implementing
Journaling can cause significant performance degradation. Or they can do
nothing and hope that they are not subject to litigation that would
force them to cycle back through racks of old backups.
PostPath “simple-forward archiving”
solves these problems by creating a simple repository for eDiscovery
searches, without the expense of third-party solutions or burdening
infrastructure with the performance and management hit of Journaling.
In addition to fulfilling eDiscovery needs, PostPath Server Archive
Edition gives administrators immediate access to every old and current
message in the system, enabling the fastest and most convenient form of
on-demand message recovery. As a result, PostPath Server Archive
Edition, when combined with PostPath’s
standards-based backup and/or high-availability mechanisms, completes
customers’ messaging data protection strategy.
PostPath Server Archive Edition is a complete email solution that is a
drop-in alternative to Microsoft Exchange and offers simpler, more
affordable, and better performance for email archiving. It is a
two-server bundle: the regular PostPath Server plus a second PostPath
Server configured to be used as the archive repository. Using its unique
simple-forward archiving approach – enabled
by its open, flexible architecture – the
regular PostPath Server automatically forks emails using its
high-performance, secure mail transport agent (MTA) and forwards a copy
of each of them directly to the archiving PostPath Server, where they
cannot be modified or deleted by users. This all happens transparently
without any performance impact and without placing an additional burden
on the regular PostPath Server’s email store.
“The ability to track every email that has
been sent or received is becoming a matter of critical importance for
regulatory compliance and eDiscovery. However, our email system did not
include archiving functionality and we needed a cost-effective solution
that was easy-to-deploy and manage,” said
Jeff Anderson, IT Manager at Integris Credit Union, a full-service
financial institution based in British Columbia. “By
selecting PostPath rather than Exchange, we were able to avoid the
burden of costly licenses, integration work and customization. Knowing
that we have a reliable archive solution with responsive support from
PostPath takes one more burden off our plate.”
PostPath Server Archive Edition is the latest addition to the PostPath
Server family, a line of email servers that are network-protocol
interoperable with the Exchange ecosystem including Outlook, BlackBerry,
Active Directory and ActiveSync, without requiring cumbersome plug-ins
or proprietary middleware. PostPath Server offers superior performance
at a fraction of the cost of alternative solutions.
“With regulations such as FRCP eDiscovery,
Sarbanes-Oxley, and HIPAA, there has never been a more critical time for
companies to address their archiving plans,”
said Duncan Greatwood, CEO of PostPath. “But
today’s approaches to email archiving have
been hard to justify for SMBs. With PostPath Server Archive Edition, we
deliver highly-scalable, easy-to-own archiving technology with the
affordability and manageability required for mid-sized businesses.”
About PostPath
PostPath has developed the industry’s first
drop-in compatible alternative to Microsoft Exchange. Fully
interoperable with the Exchange ecosystem, PostPath’s
email and collaboration server provides enterprises a lean,
high-performance messaging infrastructure, a radically improved cost
model, and an innovation-rich upgrade path for traditional and
Linux-friendly messaging environments. PostPath was founded in December
2003 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California. For more
information, visit www.postpath.com
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