EMC Introduces Archiving, E-Discovery Products

EMC’s new SourceOne solutions aim to ease management of multiple
content types, making data consolidation and storage more efficient for
solution providers. 

The SourceOne product family will integrate easily with solution
providers that have an existing storage practice, or for those who work
with customers in the legal, health care, financial or large enterprise
sector, says Sheila Childs, director of product marketing, EMC. These
solution providers and their customers are under tremendous pressure to
ensure the integrity and security of their data, and also to be able to
quickly produce it for litigation or compliance purposes, she says.

An effective information management strategy helps solution
providers reduce the amount of content their customers store, while
increasing integrity and security of that data, says Childs. Making
sure that the most important data is correctly stored and accessible
can increase organizations’ efficiency and save thousands of dollars,
especially if they are subject to e-discovery in the legal arena or
must provide data to prove regulatory compliance, she says.

“IT efficiency is so crucial now, and solution providers are focused
on leveraging tiered storage, improving information management,
performance and data recovery times,” she says. “Our focus in on
integrating good information governance into the storage arena, to make
sure customers set sound policies around deletion, retention and
compliance.”

EMC’s SourceOne family replaces the company’s E-mail Extender
product, and is built on entirely new code that integrates with EMC’s
Centera content addressed storage and EMC Celerra unified storage
systems. EMC SourceOne manages archiving, retention and automates
storage tiering to decide which data should live where, improving
backup and recovery service levels, Childs says. She adds that the
SourceOne product line is hardware-agnostic, and will also integrate
with legacy architectures that include products from other storage
vendors.

While initially, EMC SourceOne will archive only e-mail and instant
messages, support for files, Microsoft SharePoint, enterprise
applications XML and other content types will be added in the
future. 

“Today, what we see is that e-mail is the No. 1 content type that’s
cited for e-discovery, and that’s where we see the highest growth
initially,” Childs says. “Eventually, though, we see e-mail being
overtaken by data generated from Web 2.0 solutions and applications,”
she says.

The SourceOne solution’s unique design operates on a single server
for midsize companies and can also scale horizontally across multiple
servers to meet the needs of larger enterprise customers. A modular
design allows the addition of new data stores and/or backend storage as
needed, Childs says.

There are three members to the EMC SourceOne family. EMC SourceOne
E-mail Management archives e-mail from Microsoft Exchange and IBM Lotus
Notes/Domino as well as SMTP and instant messages. SourceOne E-mail
Management can improve operational efficiency of messaging systems,
reduce production, storage and backup costs and enhance message
retrieval and system recoveries, says Childs.

EMC SourceOne Discovery Manager provides high volume discovery
search and collection for e-mail archived by the SourceOne E-mail
Management. It can quickly find, safely hold, efficiently cull and
defensibly produce archived e-mail in response to legal or regulatory
notice and in compliance with corporate policy.

EMC SourceOne Discovery Collector is an indexing appliance that
automates the in-house identification, collection, preservation and
policy management of unstructured content that resides “in the wild” on
data sources such as desktops, laptops, common Internet file systems
(CIFS) and network file systems (NFS), on a NAS, within Microsoft
Exchange, SharePoint and other content management repositories.

EMC SourceOne E-mail Management and EMC SourceOne Discovery
Collector are available now. EMC SourceOne Discovery Manager will be
generally available in the latter part of this quarter.