C2C Hits Four Million User Milestone

C2C, provider of messaging system enhancements, announced the four millionth user of its solutions for email, files and SharePoint content. Now in its 17th year, C2C’s growing worldwide customer base includes diverse sectors such as government, chemical, education, banking/finance, healthcare, law, telecommunications, energy, manufacturing, retailing, media/entertainment, and ranges from small businesses to enterprises with more than 150,000 employees.

C2C has been involved in developing products to assists with mailbox size issues and content management, with products such as MaX Compression, which compresses or decompresses all email attachments and reduce storage requirements by 50 percent or more with no impact on the end users. Today, C2C users can also select flagship software ArchiveOne product family to address email, file and messaging capacity, access, retention and protection, and comply with regulatory requirements such as Sarbanes-Oxley, Freedom of Information Act, HIPAA, FRCP, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, SEC and NASD Directives.

First introduced to optimize Microsoft Exchange performance, over the years ArchiveOne has evolved to support Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Windows File Server together as well as IBM Lotus Domino.

"Hitting this milestone demonstrates the strong user value of C2C platforms and the strength and agility of the product line to meet a broad range of IT managers’ needs," said Dave Hunt, CEO at C2C. "We are seeing increased customer adoption of the ArchiveOne suite because of its flexibility in providing comprehensive archiving, retention and discovery requirements for email and files, e-Discovery, compliance management, intellectual property containment and storage management tools."

Since its modest beginnings as a custom solution provider of email management applications to its four millionth user and eight years’ standing as a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, C2C has been recognized for its innovation. ArchiveOne was most recently named a finalist for Archiving & Compliance product of the year and for its installation at the University of Liverpool in the 2009 Storage Awards, and was a finalist in the Network Computing product awards for Messaging Product of the Year.

Earlier this year, ArchiveOne received two perfect scores in a comprehensive Network World evaluation comparing ten vendors. In addition to high scores for ease of use and installation, ArchiveOne earned the best possible scores for management and flexibility. The review credited C2C’s product with offering a "complete array of features, with enterprise-class functionality in management, granularity of permissions and scalability."

"It’s an excellent time to provide messaging solutions that address capacity, mailbox quota size and backup and restore times, since these are cost-saving measures most of our customers can implement right now," said Steve Bishop, CTO at Veristor, an enterprise data storage solution provider. "We have been offering ArchiveOne for a number of years and we appreciate C2C for how they value our partnership and our customers."

C2C’s ArchiveOne solutions help organizations solve the headaches and heartaches of email archiving, file and messaging capacity, access and protection management. ArchiveOne enables administrators to enforce data retention policies and comply with various regulatory requirements regarding the use, access and retention of critical data. ArchiveOne technology is built on an advanced analytical search and policy enforcement engine, consisting of a very broad-based, in-depth and mature set of analysis criteria used throughout the product line to centralize, automate and accelerate tasks to reduce risk and improve system usage.