Reducing Storage Management Complexity and Cost, Top Drivers for Email Archiving

Metalogix Software, provider of email archiving solutions for Microsoft Exchange as well as SharePoint migration, management, archiving, and recovery solutions, announced additional findings from a recent survey which shows that traditional IT pain points, including storage management complexity and costs, remain the top drivers for Exchange archiving projects. The Metalogix poll, which included responses from more than 800 IT administrators, shows that even as demand for regulatory compliance and e-discovery readiness builds, it’s the traditional pains that continue to fuel new archiving projects for most organizations.

Key findings in the Metalogix survey show that one quarter of Exchange or SharePoint owners plan an archiving project during 2009.

Of those companies, the top drivers include:

• Storage management/reducing storage costs (34%)
• Mailbox management (26%)
• Regulatory compliance (24%)
• Server performance (24%)
• PST proliferation issues (22%)
• E-discovery (15%)

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“Our research shows that today’s IT administrators continue to face the age-old challenges of storage management complexity and cost,” said Chris Risley, CEO, Metalogix. “Even as pressures mount to assure regulatory compliance and e-discovery readiness, it’s the burden of managing exponential data growth that has most organizations considering the best ways to archive their Exchange, file and SharePoint data. Clearly, traditional backup solutions haven’t solved this challenge for most enterprises. It also highlights the increasing need for archiving solutions that optimize storage requirements significantly while simplifying management tasks, providing e-discovery functionality, and supporting regulatory compliance.”

To address these issues, Metalogix offers a suite of solutions for Exchange archiving, File archiving and SharePoint archiving. These powerful solutions leverage Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) technology to remove duplicate data and store original files on less-expensive media. This also results in less data to back up, which increases backup speeds, reduces backup windows and speeds recovery time. Each Metalogix archiving solution also features an intuitive user interface to streamline archiving processes and automate workflow for a simplified storage management experience.