Click for more detail

Archive Emails and Critical Data on Robust and Reliable Optical Media

It???s hard to believe, but most companies and organizations don???t keep archival copies of their emails and other critical files. Most can???t recover emails from even a year or two ago. Why? Because even if system backups are being performed, emails are often deleted from servers during routine tape rotations. Tape can also break, wear out and become demagnetized. But what happens when some of those emails or files are needed in a lawsuit? Or what if a regulatory agency asks for specific emails and you can???t produce them? The liabilities to an organization can be substantial:

Fines. Recent SEC fines for deletion of emails have reached hundreds of thousands of dollars. Discovery costs. Finding emails and other critical files on old tapes can take hundreds of hours. Losing a legal action. Even a single unrecoverable email can decide whether you win or lose a lawsuit.

Introducing OptiVault from Primera
OptiVault is a new archival appliance that backs up and quickly recovers all emails that are sent, received or deleted through Microsoft Exchange, including attachments. It operates unobtrusively in the background of your Exchange server, reliably backing up all emails on optical media.

When you need to recover emails from any mailbox for any date range OptiVault finds them on the appropriate backup discs and restores them automatically.

Because it uses non–erasable, non–rewritable media that can be stored off–site, OptiVault provides true WORM (Write Once Read Many) compliance. This is a critical specification for publicly–held corporations, healthcare, brokerage and financial institutions and others who must meet the strict email, data and document retention requirements of Sarbanes–Oxley, SEC 17–a, HIPAA and a host of other government regulations.

WORM technology is also highly desirable for any organization that needs to be able to quickly and reliably retrieve data and files of all types without over–burdening primary storage devices or media. Experts agree that optical media is the most rugged and reliable backup media available. Its archival life is measured in decades ???? not just years.

Fast and Easy Deployment

With OptiVault, there are:

Fast, reliable recoveries. Optical media is a fast, random–access technology allowing quick searches and recoveries. Compared to other archival methods such as tape, you can recover mailboxes, messages and files in just minutes instead of hours or days.

No more broken or damaged tapes. Optical media is highly robust and reliable. Industry studies show that up to 50% of backup tapes will fail when restoring your company???s critical data!

No more tapes or cartridges to manually load. Advanced robotics automatically load the backup media ???? day or night. Depending upon the number of users, mailboxes and files you are archiving, you may not need to replenish media for several months. Recoveries are also completely automatic.

Powered by EMC Dantz?? Retrospect?? Software

Operation is fast, because Retrospect and OptiVault utilize the industry???s most advanced optical media packet–writing technology. This combination of software and hardware achieves exceptional data transfer and write speeds of up to 60GB per hour.

Optional software agents are available for backup of SQL and open files. There???s even a disaster–recovery agent available for recovery of your servers to the most recent system state down to the ???bare–metal??? level. This saves an enormous amount of time and effort in true disaster recovery situations versus other methods such as tape.

The Most Advanced Optical Media

• Home
• My Account