E-mail archive gets a Guardian
- TAGS:e-mail, e-mail archiving, Trend Micro
- IT TOPICS:Applications, Desktop Apps, Enterprise Apps, Management, Storage
 If only the White House had had this, it wouldn't be in such a pickle.
Trend Micro Inc. released this week its Message Archiver software that continuously monitors any e-mail sent or received and snags them for an archive. According to Chris Taylor, global product marketing manager for the Tokyo-based company, Message Archiver grabs all external and internal messages, creates a digital fingerprint of the content, indexes everything, including attachments, compresses and encrypts the data, then stores it. He claims the result is an 80% reduction to your Exchange Server 2003 message store. Your staff can access all of their own past messages through an Outlook plug-in. Administrators have control over the set up and management of the system, but cannot see any of the messages stored, Taylor says. One stand-out feature is that privileged users, those who can see other people's content, such as human resource managers and lawyers, who want to view someone else's e-mail must submit a reason to the Message Archive Guardian, an individual designated to watch over who is actually viewing the archive. The Guardian does not grant permission, but keeps track of who is requesting access to other employees' missives. By Q3 Message Archiver will work with Exchange 2007 and Lotus Domino mail servers. And POP 3 mail support is also on the horizon. Pricing starts at around $33 for 500 seats.
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