Symantec intros eases customers' fears of deleting business information

Symantec has announced the availability
of Symantec Enterprise Vault 9.0 and Enterprise Vault Discovery
Collector technology to help organizations store, manage and discover
information across enterprises. Enterprise Vault 9.0 provides easy
compliance and e-discovery searches by combining e-mails from
Microsoft Exchange Online with on-premise archived content sources
into a central repository, allowing organizations to reduce costs,
centrally manage e-discovery and support internal investigations.
Enterprise Vault 9.0 also expands content source support to include
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1), Microsoft
SharePoint Server 2010 and Domino 8.5.1.

Enterprise Vault Discovery Collector
helps organizations easily discover unmanaged information from
desktops and laptops, as well as data that has not yet been archived
from SharePoint Server and file shares, and quickly produce it for
e-discovery requests. Enterprise Vault 9.0 and Enterprise Vault
Discovery Collector are the latest releases in Symantec's
Information Management Strategy, to help enable organizations to
delete confidently and discover efficiently, while protecting their
information completely and deduplicating everywhere to eliminate
redundant data. Symantec's 2010 Information Management Health Check
Survey found that while almost 90 percent of enterprises recognize
implementing a proper information retention strategy would allow them
to delete unnecessary information, less than half actually have a
formal information retention plan in place. Companies instead save
information indefinitely because they fear deleting information that
may be important to the business or may be
required as part of a future e-discovery request. As a result,
information becomes harder to find and the costs of storing and
searching for that information rise.

“Archiving is the foundation of a
comprehensive information management strategy and allows
organizations to delete confidently,” said Vijay Mhaskar ,
VP-Information Management Group, Symantec. “Enterprise Vault 9.0
and the new Enterprise Vault Discovery Collector enable IT and legal
departments to jointly develop and enforce retention policies,
closing the gap between technology and policy to reduce risk.”



New Product Updates:

· Microsoft Business
Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) support: Enterprise Vault 9.0
enables customers to use Microsoft Exchange Online with Enterprise
Vault to realize the benefits of combining hosted e-mail with
on-premise archived content sources into a central repository for
easy compliance and e-discovery searches.

· Enterprise Vault Discovery
Collector extends search capabilities to unmanaged data sources:
Enterprise Vault Discovery Collector supports urgent e-discovery and
internal investigation requirements by providing tools for legal
users to make early case assessments faster and at a lower cost.

· Enterprise Vault Discovery
Accelerator adds deduplication: New deduplication technology within
Enterprise Vault Discovery Accelerator eliminates the review and
export of redundant files to drive down cost and accelerates time
required for an early case assessment.

· New platform support: Enterprise Vault 9.0 expands its
platform support to include
archiving and discovery of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Service
Pack 1, Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, Lotus Domino 8.5.1.
Enterprise Vault also enhances Lotus Domino support by adding mail-in
databases to capture documents and workflows for storage optimization
and e-discovery.

· Symantec FileStore appliance
support: Symantec's FileStore appliance has been tested and
certified with Symantec Enterprise Vault. Using two together provides
organizations with an end-to-end solution for information management
and protection in traditional and cloud storage environments. With
high-performance file serving and built-in offerings for anti-virus,
backup/recovery, archiving, snapshots and dynamic storage tiering,
FileStore is an ideal foundation for an efficient information
infrastructure.

· Integration with NetBackup:
Organizations using Symantec NetBackup can now leverage an integrated
Enterprise Vault 9.0 agent at no cost to backup Enterprise Vault.
Enterprise Vault works with NetBackup to define automatic,
policy-based migration strategies that move archived information from
disk managed by Enterprise Vault to tape or other media managed by
NetBackup.