US Law Firm Gallon, Takacs, Boissoneault & Schaffer Opts for C2C ArchiveOne

C2C Systems, Ltd announced that US service
law firm, Gallon, Takacs, Boissoneault
& Schaffer Co., L.P.A. has reduced the storage requirements consumed by
its Microsoft Exchange email system by more than 60 percent.

Using flexible policy options within C2C’s ArchiveOne, the law firm is able to
archive email data by age, and delete voice-mail message files sent by email
after seven days, for optimum storage resource usage.

Gallon, Takacs, Boissoneault & Schaffer Co. is a service
law firm with areas of practice in workers’ compensation, personal injury,
social security disability, employment and general practice law. The company,
which was established in 1955, today operates in nine locations across the US.

When running Exchange 2003, Standard Version, the law firm found
that it was dangerously close to the maximum allowable size of its database. It
needed to reduce its database size without losing any valuable historical email
data. That’s when the company began to seek an efficient email archiving
solution. After evaluating its options, the large law firm selected ArchiveOne Enterprise solution because it offered integration with Outlook and
flexible policy and repository options.

"C2C allows for clean
organisation of archival data by year," said Gene Haberman, IT systems
administrator, Gallon, Takacs, Boissoneault & Schaffer Co. "Other products were less expensive but would
have required end user education. The extra expense of ArchiveOne was worth not
having to train the end users. It is good value given the features and ease of
use."

Of particular value for the law firm were ArchiveOne’s flexible
policies to create different rules for different message data. The firm created
policy options for routine cleaning of voice-mail messages. In 2011, the firm
had deployed a phone system that sent voice messages to email, and while this
feature is convenient for the lawyers, it was causing havoc on the company’s
limited storage space. Now it runs
a policy every night to delete voice mail messages from the information store
after seven days. This satisfied the lawyers’ needs while optimising storage
consumption.

Ultimately, with ArchiveOne in place, it has reduced the
size of its information store by 60 percent, from 72GB to just 26GB. Best of
all, this was achieved without deletion of critical historical data.

"ArchiveOne has been
developed to deliver optimum policy flexibility and end user ease of use,"
said Dave Hunt, CEO, C2C. "It is
ideal for any environment looking to optimise its storage resources while
assuring that valued email data is retained and searchable by any user at any
time."