The importance of email has not been overlooked by regulators and the court system. A maze of regulations and standards apply to the retention of corporate records and communications - impacting most organizations. In the U.S., the new rules surrounding the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure have created an entire new dimension to compliance requirements for email with far-reaching impacts for organizations.

These regulations, coupled with the rapid growth of email, create a unique set of challenges in managing email. Plasmon understands these issues and works closely with business partners to design and implement solution's to properly archive email. Robust archival solutions like the UDO Archive Appliance and Enterprise Active Archive, help organizations through-out the world reduce business risk and improve operational efficiency of email management.

Benefits
Permanence and longevity - unlike disk solutions, UDO media can be stored for more than 50 years without loss of data integrity

Authenticity - Plasmon offers hardware-based WORM - so it cannot be hacked like software-based WORM emulation

Flexibility - Plasmon solutions combine hardware and software to accommodate email archiving and other key data objects in the same architecture - eliminating archive silos

Scalability - solutions are sized to meet the needs of your operations today and grow with your organization over time

Continuity - flexible, low-cost disaster-recovery options to help ensure archived emails are not lost

Fast data access - unlike tape, the UDO Archive Appliance's RAID cache delivers high-performance read/write speeds for random access

Low total cost of ownership - Plasmon solutions utilize tiered storage providing the least expensive total cost of ownership and greener solutions compared to other storage options

Operational efficiency - by efficiently archiving email and removing it from primary storage, backup processes decrease backup workloads and freeing primary storage

Customer Experiences
New York - based Brokerage Firm "With this combination of hardware and software, we've boosted our data's accessibility, which was important for complying with the SEC Rule... By incorporating a feature that provides real-time data replication to a disaster-recovery site, the solution provides us with a way to implement our disaster-recovery plan." - IT Manager, New York - based Brokerage Firm

Hooper Holmes, Inc. "When you consider that we receive nearly 30,000 emails on a daily basis, and regulations mandate that every email we send and receive be kept for up to three years, there was no question that we needed a long-term, easily accessible archive solution. Plasmon's archival solution has provided us with an easy way to protect our assets while ensuring we are in compliance with industry regulations." - Art Cooper, System Administrator, Hooper Holmes

Our Partners
Technology Partners
Plasmon works with leading technology partners - including all technology "leaders" from Gartner's 2007 E-Mail Archiving Magic Quadrant, to bring best-of-breed solution to your organization, including:

C2C – C2C develops messaging solutions to enhance management of email, reduce risk associated with email and improve use of system resources

CommVault - CommVault's QiNetix DataArchiver retains email message data that must be preserved long-term for regulatory and operational compliance

Symantec Enterprise Vault – Enterprise Vault offers industry-leading email archiving and a centralized archiving framework for information held in Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino Journal Email, and SMTP environments

See a complete list of our technology partners in our solutions guide

Plasmon Products
Enterprise Active Archive - the most complete archiving product on the market. Integrating Plasmon's UDO Archive Appliance with software to create an intelligent, multi-tier archiving platform that manages information and its retention.

Archive File Manager – integrates discovery, contextual classification, and automated data management into one intelligent file system using policies to pull static data off NAS and SAN storage, and migrating it to the Archive Appliance, or the Enterprise Active Archive.

UDO Archive Appliance – is designed for the long-term storage of patient images and records. Its architecture combines software and the performance and simplicity of network-attached RAID, with the longevity and authenticity of UDO.

UDO2 – is not "your father's optical media". Rather, UDO2 is the state of the art storage media for long-term archive. To learn more about all of Plasmon's product, click here.

Other Information
Digital Archiving Brief - Plasmon Multi-Tier Enterprise Active Archive - Enterprise Strategy Group