Eleven Essential Attributes For Email Archiving
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- 2. Eleven Essential Attributes for Email Archiving Stephen Foskett Director, Data Practice Contoural ( http://www.contoural.com ) [email_address]
- 3. Email Archiving: Youve Got Options Why Archive Email?
- Manage Mail Server Growth
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- IT wants to control email system data growth
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- Key features: Stubbing and compact storage
- Provide Compliance and Legal Hold
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- Legal or business needs a record of email
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- Key features: Completeness and search
- Manage System Usage
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- Management and users want enhanced access
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- Key features: PST ingestion, flexible interfaces
- 4. Email Archiving: Youve Got Options Making Your Case
- Managing Growth
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- Storage cost is often the big driver
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- Email systems fall apart when size limits are reached
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- Only relevant to IT
- Compliance and Legal Hold
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- Mission critical to retain email for compliance and legal
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- Huge financial hit to manually search and produce email
- Enhancing Access
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- Business requirements are sometimes lost in the legal/IT shuffle, but are critical to acceptance
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- Explosion of PST files and escaping email jail
- 5. Email Archiving: Youve Got Options Location and Purchasing
Model
- In-House
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- Need to purchase software and hardware
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- Invest in personnel to manage solution
- Hosted
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- Located outside a specialized system built for you, often close (network distance)
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- You often must pay for software and hardware
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- Includes day to day management services
- Managed Service
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- Located outside often very far away
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- Part of a larger system providing service to many
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- Includes day to day management services
- 6. Key Technical Differences: Completeness
- How Complete Is the Archive?
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- Can it guarantee that every message is captured?
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- The double-delete problem
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- Gateway vs. scheduled sweeps vs. journaling vs. log shipping
- Does it Record What People Do?
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- Capturing what users do with a message (read, file, ignore, forward) is tough
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- MAPI sweeps vs. log shipping
- 7. Key Technical Differences: Integration
- Can it Ingest an Existing Mail Store or PST File?
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- Pull in pre-existing content from mail server
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- How hard/expensive to ingest PST content?
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- Will it retain the users folder structure?
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- Warning: You have to flag this stuff as possibly incomplete and perhaps even unreliable!
- Can It Handle Multiple Email Systems?
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- Multiples of the same type
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- Heterogeneous systems (Exchange, Notes/Domino, UNIX, Apple)
- 8. Key Technical Differences: Content
- How Does It Handle Non-Message Content?
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- Attachments, calendars, tasks, contacts
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- Email-specific vs. generalized (SharePoint, IM, filesystems, databases)
- Can It Do Single Instancing Or Deduplication?
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- Does it single-instance entire messages or attachments separately?
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- Block deduplication can be added to the storage
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- What about single-instancing in general archives?
- 9. Key Technical Differences: Legal
- Will Legal Be Happy With the Output?
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- What type of audit/access logs does it produce?
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- Can it create chain of custody reports? Bates numbering?
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- How secure is the back end? (Encryption, SAS70 audits)
- Is Litigation Hold Functionality Integrated?
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- If the archive supports litigation hold, how granular is it? (Object, message, folder, user, mailbox, mail store, etc)
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- How flexible is the hold function? What about multiple holds?
- 10. Key Technical Differences: Search
- How Is the Included Search and e-Discovery?
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- Try out the search in ways you might use it
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- Consider a real e-discovery request from legal
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- Can it search across mailboxes or repositories?
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- How quick and complete is the search function?
- Can It Integrate with Third-Party Tools?
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- Can you plug in your own enterprise search or e-discovery tool or does integration mean export?
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- What about account/access control, reporting, logging, and audit tools?
- 11. Key Technical Differences: End Users
- What Will End Users Think Of It?
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- Client integration what will they see? (search, toolbars, plugins, software install)
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- Web clients Does it integrate with webmail?
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- Off-line access What happens when users are on a plane? What if you lose connectivity?
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- Mobile client use (BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Palm, iPhone, Symbian)
- 12. Buying and Building Your System: What Do You Require?
- Architecture Configuration and capacity
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- How will the system plug into your architecture?
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- Capacity mailboxes, storage, activity
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- Performance and scalability
- Business Requirements Usability
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- What business needs are served?
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- What features do users, the business, and legal need?
- Technical Requirements Functions
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- Mail server specs OS, mail system
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- Client specs OS, clients, mobile, web
- 13. Buying and Building Your System: Getting It Up and Running
- Policies are critical to function
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- What categories of messages?
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- How to categorize?
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- How long to retain?
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- Can you automate deletion?
- System can come before policy, both are needed
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- Policies involve every part of the business
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- Have to ask the right questions
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- Education of end users is critical
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- Dont wait to get the archive running