60% of critical information is stored within corporate messaging systems, up from 33% in 1999.
A typical 3000-user email system will handle more than one terabyte of message traffic annually.
Over 80% of end-users cannot retrieve archived messages without the help of the IT department.
The average IT administrator spends 5-6 hours per week recovering old messages.
For email messages over a year old, it can take an email administrator 11 hours to recover the message.
IT Administrators spend an average of 8 hours per week backing up email systems.
 
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E-mail has become the de facto means of business communication - and a massive data challenge for organizations of all sizes. New regulations regarding the retention of electronic communications are a legal imperative for many companies and a staff test to information technology professionals. The enterprise demands that all business communications - including e-mail - be carefully managed and records kept authentic, complete, secure and accessible.


IMPEX provides a comprehensive email storage and management solution. Together with our best-of-breed business partners. IMPEX leverages the tremendous power of tape, disk, storage networking and virtual storage products to deliver a solution that meets your ongoing and further email requirements. We provide useful solutions for four of the most critical e-mail functions, including storage management, content and lifecycle management, compliance with state and federal regulations and e-mail surveillance.

The IMPEX Technologies' SANStor E-mail Appliance brings the power of data management to e-mail messaging. It delivers a turnkey hardware and software solution to enhance your messaging platform by:

• Automatically copying every e-mail and attachment to an Enterprise Message Center.
• Harnessing a powerful full-text search engine to give complete access to your messages and attachments.
• Reducing e-mail server stress and bottlenecks by automatically classifying and migrating messages and attachment.
• Displaying stored messages and audit results for immediately review by compliance personnel or other authorized users.
• Delivering audit trail and reporting on archive, including message/mailbox access, user access and message volume deletion.
• Integrating a WORM storage capability to meet non-rewriteable and non-erasable media requirements.


The E-mail Compliance and Archiving Solution harnesses a powerful set of e-mail storage and management tools to help you alleviate the e-mail nightmare... so you can start using corporate e-mail as a true strategic business asset, on that works for you, not against you. Your business can immediately realize the benefits, including: • Compliance with regulatory requirements
• Ability to scale your message platform
• Fast and efficient access to e-mail messages and attachments, saving valuable time, money and aggravation
• Enhanced ability to survive virus attaches through superior e-mail management
• Elimination of message size restrictions
• Decreased server downtime