BEDMINSTER, N.J., April 6 /PRNewswire/ -- AT&T today introduced AT&T E- Mail Archiving, a fully managed service to help businesses and U.S. government agencies comply with complex industry and federal data retention regulations, while they simultaneously grapple with the exponential storage growth driven by the proliferation of e-mail communication.
Faced with changing regulations, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which requires more stringent documentation, companies are turning to managed e-mail archiving solutions to deal with e-mail volume and the increasing importance of e-mail as a strategic corporate asset and liability.
AT&T E-Mail Archiving offers flexible storage solutions, delivering scalable, secure and cost-effective e-mail retention in AT&T Internet Data Centers (IDC). AT&T's extensive network of IDCs includes 21 centers operating on four continents, with plans to grow to 25 centers in 2004.
Today's announcement underscores AT&T's commitment to expand application networking, including its hosting services business, growing at several times the industry rate, by supporting critical business applications, such as storage. AT&T E-Mail Archiving is based on technologies from EMC Corporation of Hopkinton, Mass., and KVS Inc. of Arlington, Texas.
"We're teaming with AT&T to bring Pioneer a managed e-mail archiving solution to help us with our SEC compliance," said Chris Chapin, vice president, Information Technology - Pioneer Investments, a Massachusetts-based financial services firm. "By leveraging best-in-breed technologies supported by EMC and KVS, AT&T is able to deliver to Pioneer a cost-effective, scaleable managed e-mail archiving solution."
"As we continue to expand our storage portfolio, we are addressing a critical market need for an e-mail archiving solution. We are focused on providing customers with a managed option that gives them an alternative to doing it themselves," said Eric Shepcaro, vice president - AT&T Emerging Services.
"AT&T also intends to deliver additional application networking capabilities during 2004, including a new managed messaging solution this quarter and other mail and storage services enhancements later in the year, to address the needs of customers' complex networking environments," added Shepcaro.
Utilizing KVS Inc. Enterprise Vault(R) and EMC Centera(TM), AT&T is able to offer a robust, cost-effective, fully managed integrated solution. Customers benefit from:
- No upfront investment in hardware, software or personnel;
- Reduced strain on e-mail environment by automatic archiving into an online store;
- Automated regulatory compliance by pre-set retention periods; and
- Single-management provider and one point of contact.
As the volume of e-mail correspondence increases, the strain on production mail environments becomes a concern. AT&T E-Mail Archiving removes and archives e-mails and attachments from the production environment, offloading the archival process to AT&T and optimizing a client's storage environment.
AT&T securely transmits the data to an AT&T IDC, quickly indexes all messages passing through the mail environment and stores the content in its original format, becoming an online store easily retrieved by the end user. Additionally, this solution supports single-instance store capabilities, retaining only one copy of a message or attachment.
AT&T E-Mail Archiving is supported by AT&T's integrated Global Enterprise Management System, a proactive, predictive system that captures, consolidates and correlates performance data across a customer's networks, servers and applications. Customers can view performance data via the company's AT&T BusinessDirectSM Web portal.
AT&T E-Mail Archiving leverages the company's application networking expertise, providing a continuum of flexible managed integrated services across the company's hosting, storage and business continuity portfolios.
For more information about these services, visit http://www.att.com/.
About AT&T
For more than 125 years, AT&T (NYSE: T) has been known for unparalleled quality and reliability in communications. Backed by the research and development capabilities of AT&T Labs, the company is a global leader in local, long distance, Internet and transaction-based voice and data services.
About EMC EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world leader in products, services and solutions for information storage and management that help organizations extract the maximum value from their information, at the lowest total cost, across every point in the information lifecycle. Information about EMC's products and services can be found at http://www.emc.com/. EMC is a registered trademark and Centera and Centera Compliance Edition are trademarks of EMC Corporation.
About KVS
KVS is the global market leading developer of E-mail and content archiving software solutions that provide total lifecycle management for information in messaging and collaborative systems. KVS' flagship software, Enterprise Vault(R), manages all unstructured content including E-mail, file systems, SharePoint Portal Server and instant messages. Enterprise Vault enables users to significantly reduce risk and increase operational efficiency while meeting regulatory requirements for compliance and adhering to best practice and corporate governance for electronic data retention. Founded in 1999 and privately held, KVS has offices across North America, the UK, Europe and Australia. For more information, visit http://www.kvsinc.com.
