EMC unveils world's first enterprise-class archiving software based on a unified archiving platform

The new products, which are the world's first enterprise-class e-mail and reports archiving software products based on a unified archiving platform, will enable customers across the Middle East to employ a common set of services for collecting, retaining, migrating, securing and discovering all types of information.

"What we're witnessing with EMC customers in the region - from banks to healthcare providers to telecoms operators to governments, and even in smaller businesses - is that organizations have so much information that they can't find a uniform way to archive their emails, images, documents, customer records, and other key types of content,"

said Mohammed Amin, general manager, EMC Middle East.

"While companies need to be able to retain and retrieve this information easily and cost-effectively for their own business purposes, we're also seeing regional moves toward regulation and compliance in how data is stored across industries like financial services. As the next stage of our ILM (Information Lifecycle Management) strategy, EMC's new Archive Services solutions address all of these challenges, ensuring that Middle Eastern companies can store and access the data they need whenever it's required."

Using new EMC products including Archive Services for Email and Archive Services for Reports, customers will be better equipped to search and retrieve information for compliance and legal discovery, content re-use, improved decision-making and improving the cost and operational efficiencies of their archiving applications.

Today's announcement, in addition to the previous announcement of EMC Documentum Archive Services for SAP software, reinforces EMC's strategy and commitment to help customers deploy a holistic set of retention, storage and security policies and access tools for all archived information. EMC intends to apply this strategy across all forms of information, including e-mail, images, reports, documents, records, videos and entire websites.

Analysts Highlight Archiving Trend

Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) research estimates that organizations will archive 4,000 Petabytes of content in 2006, growing to 27,000 Petabytes in 2010. One petabyte is the rough equivalent of 500 billion standard-size document pages

Brian Babineau, Senior Analyst at ESG, explained, "EMC was a leading innovator in information archiving when the fundamental need was to unburden systems from the performance drag of older or low-use information. Now, the requirements are much more complex and demanding. IT organizations are required to manage archived information within a workflow, make it readily available for enterprise-wide search and discovery, while continuing to hammer on costs and performance issues. These archives will be driven by many sources of data ranging from e-mail to application files. EMC is addressing these requirements and building on its early lead as the first vendor to offer an enterprise-level archiving platform that brings silos of archived information together in unified way."

New EMC Archive Services Solution

EMC Documentum Archive Services for Email is the first in the industry to provide enterprise-class e-mail archiving based on a unified archiving platform. The software captures and archives all incoming and outgoing e-mail messages to ensure compliance with regulations and internal e-mail policies. Enhanced compliance capabilities enable customers to validate email compliance to regulators and the courts. In the event of litigation, investigators can search the archive and deliver high volumes of messages quickly, accurately and with assurance that the chain of custody is intact.

EMC Documentum Archive Services for Reports is the first in the industry to provide enterprise-class reports archiving based on a unified archiving platform. It captures large volumes of computer-generated reports from enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, invoices, statements, bills, as well as system-generated content from wireless devices, debit cards and web services. The content is converted into ISO-standard PDF-A format for long-term preservation, retention policy management and lifecycle-managed storage.