MessageOne Enhances EMS Email Archive With Advanced Message Import Capabilities

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- MessageOne (http://www.messageone.com) today announced advanced import capabilities for its Email Management Services (EMS) that enable customers to intelligently import messages stored in Microsoft Exchange(R), local .PST files and legacy on-premise archive solutions. By centralizing distributed email into a single archive, MessageOne provides companies with complete control over email retention policies, compliance, e-Discovery and litigation holds.

Email archiving has become essential for e-Discovery, storage management and compliance. However, archives are only as useful as the messages they contain. In order to truly centralize search, discovery and retention management, companies need to ensure that every email is stored in the archive. If not, litigation or compliance audits may require companies to complete expensive manual searches for messages stored on local desktops or in legacy systems.

Centralizing Messages Stored in Exchange, .PST and Legacy Archives

MessageOne's new advanced import capabilities streamline the email archiving process by ingesting distributed messages into its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) EMS Email Archive. EMS is able to import messages into the archive from three different sources:

    --  Microsoft Exchange -- EMS harvests messages from Exchange for any set
        of users and retention periods. Unlike other solutions, EMS can easily
        be configured to import for diverse time periods for different classes
        of users. For example, seven years of messages can be imported for
        regulated users, five years for executives and 90 days for other
        users.

    --  Local .PST Archives -- .PST files are local email stores that are
        convenient for users but risky for administrators. When litigation
        occurs, it can be expensive and time-consuming to find messages stored
        in local .PST files. EMS Email Archive is able to import messages
        stored in .PST files into the archive. Since .PST files do not include
        essential mailbox information and metadata, EMS Email Archive
        automatically associates .PST files with the correct mailbox,
        restoring metadata that is essential for e-Discovery, litigation holds
        and retention policy management.

    --  Legacy On-Premise Archives -- Many companies are migrating from slow
        and expensive on-premise archives to SaaS solutions like EMS Email
        Archive. MessageOne's advanced import capabilities streamline
        migration by importing messages directly into EMS. Many on-premise
        systems capture messages without important metadata needed to enable
        legal and end-user search capabilities. EMS Email Archive solves this
        problem by intelligently associating imported messages with the
        original mailbox metadata.

"By making it easy to collect and import millions of distributed messages, MessageOne is helping companies regain control over email management," said Satin Mirchandani, CEO of MessageOne. "Once email messages are centrally archived, MessageOne can help CIOs control retention and deletion, eliminate downtime, and better support compliance and litigation strategy."

Centralized Email Archiving Eliminates the Major Risks Facing CIOs

In a typical company, one thousand email users generate approximately 25 million email messages each year. For CIOs and other IT executives who are responsible for managing messages, email has become expensive and fraught with risk. As email retention becomes an essential component of compliance and litigation strategy, CIOs are forced to manage retention, deletion, search and discovery of millions or billions of messages.

MessageOne EMS is designed to help CIOs painlessly address these problems. Once messages are imported into the archive, MessageOne allows IT administrators to centrally control essential email functions. Today, EMS is the only SaaS archive to provide a comprehensive suite of email management capabilities to enable administrators to:

    --  Manage retention and deletion policies
    --  Execute litigation holds
    --  Complete e-Discovery searches for litigation
    --  Eliminate email downtime
    --  Provide disaster recovery for lost email data
    --  Reduce the size of data stores by as much 80 percent
    --  Provide sub-second end user email search

About EMS

With thousands of global customers, EMS provides complete control over retention and deletion policies, legal holds, compliance, storage management and e-Discovery without the risks of data loss or downtime. Unlike any other on-demand service, MessageOne's managed services platform can be deployed in a day and offers a low total cost of ownership while meeting the broadest enterprise requirements for scalability, security, integration and data privacy.

About MessageOne

Headquartered in Austin, Texas and founded by Adam Dell, MessageOne is the leading provider of managed services for email management, archiving and business continuity. For enterprise email and wireless messaging teams, the company's Email Management Services (EMS(TM)) provides comprehensive email archiving, storage management and e-Discovery with the total continuity, recovery, and security protection only available from an on-demand service. For enterprise business continuity and disaster recovery teams, MessageOne's AlertFind(TM) provides guaranteed emergency notification and escalation to help companies protect their employees during any crisis or disaster. Millions of users around the world depend on MessageOne for its award-winning managed services.

For more information, please visit http://www.messageone.com.