New MailFRAME Email Archiving Appliance by MPC

The new MailFRAME appliance automates the
process of capturing, storing and retrieving email messages. "Our
goal with this new product was to deliver an infrastructure solution
that integrates hardware and software into a single system that can be
serviced and supported by MPC," said Greg Wolff, Area Vice President of
Product Marketing at MPC. "Archiving email can be expensive and
resource-intensive. MailFRAME will alleviate many of the common
problems of email archiving because it’s simple to deploy and maintain,
and easy to use."

Designed
to be non-intrusive, the MailFRAME connects to any open-standards-based
messaging server and makes "photo-copies" of the mail messages for
storage into any standards-based storage device. End-users can then
search and retrieve archived messages, even if their mail messages have
been previously deleted or lost from their mailbox.MPC
customers who are already using the appliance can attest to its
benefits. "We use our MailFRAME several times a week, and with over
900,000 messages already stored, most searches still take less than
three seconds," said Gary Gregg, Manager of Information Services for
the City of Southlake (TX). "In fact, I was able to set up an account
on the MailFRAME for our City Secretary and train her on its use in
less than five minutes."

The
MailFRAME is built using industry-standard hardware and is embedded
with a software stack from NorthSeas AMT, a developer of message
archiving technology. The MailFRAME appliance is email server-agnostic,
enabling it to work with any mail server, including Microsoft Exchange,
Lotus Notes or other mail servers that use standard messaging
protocols. Additionally, the MailFRAME appliance can store the archived
messages onto any standard storage device using CIFS or NFS interfaces.
End-users connect to the MailFRAME appliance with a standard browser to
retrieve and replay their mail messages.

The
MailFRAME lists at a starting price of $7,999 for 500 users and can be
upgraded to 1,000 users, 2,500 users and beyond without any hardware
changes to the appliance.