Don’t forget to Archive
Hello, my name is Rob and I’ve been recovering for many years. Recovering Data that is:-)
Before considering many of the new innovations to help improve backup I suggest that you look at implementing an archive first. This will reduce your primary storage usage dramatically and make backup easier.
At EMC we started archiving our employee e-mail at the start of 2007. Personally, this meant no more management of PST files. Management involved creating PST files on my notebook, manually moving e-mails and then performing my own backups to ensure that I always was able to recover. Basically, I was my own backup administrator.
Today EMC announced EMC SourceOne, a new family of products for archiving, e-discovery and compliance.
- EMC SourceOne Email Management archives e-mail from Microsoft Exchange and IBM Lotus Notes/Domino as well as SMTP and instant messages to improve operational efficiency of messaging systems, reduce production, storage and backup costs and enhance message retrieval and system recoveries.
- EMC SourceOne Discovery Manager provides high volume discovery search and collection for e-mail archived by the SourceOne Email Management. It can quickly find, safely hold, efficiently cull and defensibly produce archived e-mail in response to legal/regulatory notice and/or corporate policy complaint. Discovery Manager is built around a legal matter or case metaphor and supports secure authorized investigator access, defensible collection results and chain of custody.
- EMC SourceOne Discovery Collector is an indexing appliance that automates the in-house identification, collection, preservation, and policy management of unstructured content that resides on data sources such as desktops, laptops, common Internet file systems (CIFS) and network file systems (NFS), networked attached storage, Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint and other content management repositories
I would describe EMC SourceOne Email Management as a 2nd generation e-mail archiving product, delivering an architecture capable of supporting even the most demanding requirements, especially as E-mail continues to be a critical application for most customers. SourceOne components can be deployed on just a single server or distributed across multiple physical or virtual servers. To support the EMC user community the new product is being implemented on a VMware ESX infrastructure which will allow for easy configuration changes.
No more e-mail backups for me as all the messages I keep are either stored on our Exchange servers or archived onto our EMC Centera storage. One less thing for me to worry about.
Posted by Rob Emsley
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