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Netmail Archive Case Studies

Discover how organizations are avoiding costly fines and penalties associated with not complying with record retention laws, while also driving down the cost of e-discovery and email storage with the help of Netmail Archive.

Who’s Using Netmail Archive for Email Archiving

Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital Medical Center solves its email archiving and migration challenges with Messaging Architects' Netmail Migrator and Netmail Archive.

Industry: Healthcare | Product: M+Migrator, M+Archive


Western Athletics Clubs maintains tradition of service excellence by providing high-performance collaboration to company staff with Messaging Architects' M+ Email Risk Management suite.

Industry: Corporations & Financial Services | Product: M+Archive, M+Guardian


When the DigeTekS engineers advise clients on email security, archiving, migrations, audits, or anything else around their IT infrastructure, they remain true to the company’s philosophy in providing their clients with a broader perspective that directly ties in their IT implementations to their business success.

Industry: Corporations & Financial Services | Product: M+Migrator, M+Archive, M+Guardian


Johnson Matthey deployed M+Archive to be able to find and access the enormous volume of historical data in their email system, thereby simplifying email management and curbing eDiscovery costs.

Industry: Corporations & Financial Services | Product: M+Archive


With M+Guardian, M+Archive, and M+SecureStore FormelD to simplify email management, improve GroupWise performance, and dramatically reduce their message store volume.

Industry: Corporations & Financial Services | Product: M+Archive, M+Guardian, M+SecureStore


M+Archive enables the Offenbach City Council (Germany) to implement policy-based email archiving and eDiscovery and have their email environment streamlined for a quick and painless future migration to Exchange.

| Product: M+Archive


In 2006 Geisinger Health began the design and implementation of a comprehensive system for electronic records retention, including email,that addressed the needs for electronic legal discovery and content management and met the privacy and security requirements of HIPAA. Read why Geisinger selected M+Archive to deal with the challenges of GroupWise archiving.

Industry: Healthcare | Product: M+Archive


As part of its new massive IT strategy integration, the Wyre Forest District Council made the decision to deploy centralised email archiving to its messaging infrastructure. Messaging Architects’ M+Archive was the solution selected for its robust search capabilities to handle the public’s Freedom of Information requests with minimal IT overhead and its support for Novell GroupWise and Microsoft Exchange messaging platforms.

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"M+Archive is an excellent application that is able to fulfill our needs to contain the exponential growth in storage and also offers the modules to enforce our email policy once it is put in place. M+Archive is a very useful application in today’s day and age when nobody ever deletes email. So far, M+Archive has really helped us better manage the storage problems we have been experiencing."

- Parul Patel, Senior Network Analyst, Albert Einstein Healthcare Network

Industry: Healthcare | Product: M+Archive


First Response Finance needed to deploy a suitable email retention policy, eliminate the risks of lost messages, and have a robust search engine for discovery requests in place. They were able to accomplish it with M+Archive.

Industry: Corporations & Financial Services | Product: M+Archive


As a state agency, TxDOT is bound toto provide the public with access to information, including email and other electronically delivered documents, in the most cost-effective way. M+Archive provided TxDOT with an enterprise-class email archiving solution for GroupWise to meet their eDiscovery challenges and budgetary requirements.

Industry: Education & Public Sector | Product: M+Archive


"Since M+Archive included the email migration tool as part of the archiving licenses, we were able to save about 30% of the migration project investment as we didn’t have to spend additional funds on a single-use migration tool. Because the Messaging Architects' migration experts took care of the email platform switch and the data migration, my team was free to complete the rest of our infrastructure refresh in time to start the new school year in the new IT environment."

- Jason Piazza, Director of Network Systems

Industry: Education & Public Sector | Product: M+Migrator, M+Archive


“We looked at the cost, the technology and what technical support could do for us. What impressed us was how the Messaging Architects team interfaced with us and the recommendations they made based on a deep understanding of our specific organizational needs.”


- Raymond Reynolds, IT Manager, Fort Sill National Bank

Industry: Corporations & Financial Services | Product: M+Archive, M+Guardian


"The best way to service my organization's legal needs and to maintain a competitive edge is to understand electronically stored information and to be able to apply ESI concepts to federal and state ediscovery rules. M+Archive enables me to accomplish this quickly and in a cost effective manner. Since we implemented the solution, we’ve been able to cut down at least 30% on email management and hard drive costs that have saved the organization tens of thousands of dollars." - Mark Hayward, Senior Systems Administrator at Comtech EF Data, in charge of the email and archiving system.

Industry: Corporations & Financial Services | Product: M+Archive


For several years, the Port of San Diego has been using Messaging Architects’ software in order to maximize its investment in the Novell GroupWise collaboration system. The self-contained M+Guardian email firewall ensures that the organization is protected from spam and viruses while supporting the Port of San Diego’s commitment to a green policy by efficient use of processor power. M+Archive has automated the email retention process making open records requests fast and easy to produce and guaranteeing that the local government agency remains fully compliant with the current state regulations.

Industry: Education & Public Sector | Product: M+Archive, M+Guardian


"By using M+Archive for our transition from GroupWise to Exchange, we were able to leverage the dollars we saved by not having to invest into a separate migration tool and we were able to extend the email system refresh beyond the original scope of the project. M+Archive allowed us to meet the need to migrate and enable a deployment policy for centralized email retention and electronic discovery. I cannot stress enough how much help M+Archive has been."

- Steve Shields, Director of Technology

Industry: Education & Public Sector | Product: M+Migrator, M+Archive


Haarlem IT department uses Novell GroupWise. Like with any public agency, a large part of the electronic correspondence that goes through the municipal system falls in the category of “legal documents” and as such needs to be handled and stored appropriately throughout its lifecycle management. For the past three years, the City of Haarlem has been using Messaging Architects’ M+Archive to ensure that its email is retained according to the municipal policies.

Industry: Education & Public Sector | Product: M+Archive


When officials of Jackson County, OR, decided to update their eight-year old email policy, it was crucial all departments were on the same page before investing tax payers’ dollars into the technology that would accomplish the goal. Messaging Architects’ two-day e-policy workshop helped the key County stakeholders reach the needed consensus to successfully and effectively design and implement an updated email retention policy.

Industry: Education & Public Sector | Product: Services , M+Archive, M+Guardian


M+Archive solves the archiving needs of Vedior Holding NV, one of the world's largest recruitment companies and best addresses the organization's regulatory and internal email retention policy requirements amongst numerous archiving solutions.

Industry: Corporations & Financial Services | Product: M+Archive


The Grand Junction City Government is recognized for its civic excellence. For years, the Information Systems Department has been using Messaging Architects’ security, compliance and collaboration software. Find out how these products helped enhance end-user productivity and ensured a risk-free collaboration environment in order to best serve the needs of the community.

Industry: Education & Public Sector | Product: M+Archive, M+Guardian, M+NetMail, M+Extranet


Gwent Police selected M+Archive, Messaging Architects' cross-platform version of the archiving software Gwent Police already had in place, to perform the migration from GroupWise 8 directly to Exchange 2010. M+Archive included the migration tool and didn't require additional investment beyond their subscription contract. Messaging Architects were also able to carry out the migration in line with the exceedingly tight timeline Gwent Police had to work with.

 

Industry: Education & Public Sector | Product: M+Migrator, M+Archive


Metropolitan Community College has made a few strategic decisions aimed at simplifying email management and reducing the cost associated with it, including a migration to Exchange. They selected M+Archive to perform the migration of users and data at the pace they needed.

Industry: Education & Public Sector | Product: M+Migrator, M+Archive


Since email was introduced as a business application in the firm in the mid-1990s, the staff of Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP has relied on Novell GroupWise to ensure efficient and secure collaboration. Recently, they deployed M+Archive from Messaging Architects to attain fully automated and compliant email lifecycle management. Prior to the roll-out, the Messaging Architects Professional Services division conducted a comprehensive audit of the email environment to ensure the proper deployment and effective work of the archiving solution.

Industry: Corporations & Financial Services | Product: M+Archive


The University of Dundee is rolling out a campus-wide email retention strategy to reduce storage costs, proactively deploy the tools for quick electronic discovery and improve collaboration for 28,000 end users encompassing faculty, staff and students. Messaging Architects enables them to accomplish these objectives with the comprehensive functionality of M+Archive and a high quality of customer support.

Industry: Education & Public Sector | Product: M+Archive


"With the Messaging Architects products, I’ve future-proofed my investment. The way I see it, the M+ products work to protect my messaging system regardless of the platform I am on – today it may be GroupWise, tomorrow it may be something else. I have brought up this fact to my administration and they fully support my decision in selecting Messaging Architects’ email archiving and security software.”

- Eddie Parker, Director of Technology

Industry: Education & Public Sector | Product: M+Archive, M+Guardian


To meet the email retention requirements of its educational institutions, DESD uses Messaging Architects’ M+Archive and hosts all archives in a virtualized environment. This is a cost-effective solution for the participating schools because this approach relieves them from having to buy their own servers.

Industry: Education & Public Sector | Product: M+Archive


Spring Independent School District, TX, implements M+Archive to reduce storage growth and to achieve a policy-based approach to email retention.

Industry: Education & Public Sector | Product: M+Archive


Loyola College rolls out M+Archive to ensure long-term, platform-independent compliance with email retention requirements.

Industry: Education & Public Sector | Product: M+Archive


In 2007, East Grand Rapids Public Schools evaluated the state of their collaboration system and their potential liabilities. As a result of the assessment, they made the proactive decision to deploy a centralized email archiving system as part of their messaging infrastructure. They selected M+Archive as the solution that best met their email retention and e-discovery needs, while tightly integrating with the their Novell GroupWise system.

Industry: Education & Public Sector | Product: M+Archive


The Black Horse Pike Regional High School District in Camden County, NJ, decided to deploy an email retention policy in their school district when the federal government made changes in the electronic discovery laws. With the help of the Messaging Architects Professional Services team, the Black Horse Pike IT Department worked on designing an appropriate retention policy, which was implemented in 2007 using M+Archive as the foundation for their archiving solution.

Industry: Education & Public Sector | Product: M+Archive


Iredell-Statesville Schools is among the largest school districts in North Carolina serving over 20,000 students. The school district’s teachers and administrative staff use Novell GroupWise and the Messaging Architects security and compliance product portfolio to achieve high productivity in a safe and highly available environment.

Industry: Education & Public Sector | Product: M+Archive, M+Guardian, M+Extranet


The South San Antonio Independent School District encompasses 21 square miles in the south and southwest portion of San Antonio. Approximately 10,000 students attend the school district, which consists of 2 high schools, 4 middle schools, and 10 elementary schools. The faculty and staff servicing South San Antonio ISD rely on Novell GroupWise for all their collaboration needs. Read about their experience using technology from Messaging Architects to achieve enhanced security of their messaging system and meet the regulatory requirements for email retention.

Industry: Education & Public Sector | Product: M+Archive, M+Guardian


The College of Dentistry has about 900 faculty and staff users who rely on Novell GroupWise for their collaboration system. At the beginning of the year, the school began the implementation of email archiving to address the needs for access to information and legal discovery, as well as contain the explosive increase of storage accompanying the exponential growth of email. Read about their experience in this undertaking.

Industry: Education & Public Sector | Product: M+Archive


With 500 staff members, the Oconomowoc Area School District serves over 4400 students and relies on Novell GroupWise for its collaboration needs. Since 2005, the School District has been using M+Guardian to provide reliable and administration-free anti-spam protection for its users. Recently, the IT group proactively addressed the important issue of email retention and deployed M+Archive in the school district's system to ensure they were prepared for open records requests and other legal discovery  quickly and painlessly.

Industry: Education & Public Sector | Product: M+Archive, M+Guardian


"The application M+Archive way easy to use and affordable, which is always a concern in the educational sector. Moreover, it has an extremely flexible and fast search engine that allows us to obtain the relevant information in cases of discovery very fast - instead of waiting for several days, we can get it almost immediately. This for us was crucial. Having M+Archive integrated in my GroupWise system has made me a hero in the eyes the Millard Public Schools Superintendent."

- John Dickey, Network Support Specialist, Millard Public Schools District

Industry: Education & Public Sector | Product: M+Archive


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