Benefits System Requirements Product Information Companies are facing the challenge of protecting the increasing needs of electronic email. With this paradigm shift of communication comes the expansion of both usable and redundant data that must be protected. As an administrator, the responsibility of managing, protecting and optimizing this data becomes even more challenging. The answer to solving this growing problem is a space management application that can transparently move older message attachments from Exchange onto a secondary storage device, but still allow users access to their attachments.
Email is the center of the communication hub within today's successful corporate organizations.
Professionals now use email to communicate with colleagues, clients, partners, fellow employees and suppliers. Email systems are often the only records retained that document a wide range of business transactions, commitments and operations. Therefore, it is imperative than an enterprise level mail product such as Microsoft's Exchange, provide more than simple email routing and delivery. This scenario creates unique administrator challenges in that Microsoft Exchange is not designed as a knowledge repository. In place of the bulky attachments, Remote Storage links to the attachment inside the Exchange databases that point to the data in secondary storage.