Albert Einstein Health

Reducing the Time & Cost of Email Record Retention

M+Archive Addresses Storage Concerns at Albert Einstein Healthcare Network

Albert Einstein Healthcare Network’s mission is to provide high-quality healthcare in order to elevate the health status of the greater Philadelphia region. The healthcare institution serves the community with healthcare programs and services ranging from health education and preventive medicine to complex and specialized care requiring advanced technology and highly expert staff. To fulfill this purpose, Albert Einstein Healthcare Network leverages the power of Novell’s GroupWise as its collaboration platform.

Einstein Healthcare Network uses M+Archive from Messaging Architects to address its immediate storage concerns. "We are currently in the process of developing and implementing a comprehensive policy for email retention that meets the necessary regulatory requirements and will streamline the process of email archiving and improve on GroupWise storage which is growing out of proportion," explains Parul Patel, Senior Network Analyst & GroupWise Administrator at Albert Einstein Healthcare Network.

"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."

"We make use of the exporting feature to publish email accounts of employees to portable media when these individuals leave the hospital. This functionality of the product allows us to delete the old accounts from our GroupWise system, containing the growth of the GroupWise message store and freeing up unused GroupWise licenses. The employees who leave the organization are also very happy that they can take their old email with them."

"The M+Archive client also permits us to give greater flexibility to the top-level executives to manage their personal archives and store them securely at a centralized location. Once we have a policy set up, we can really improve the process by actually offloading the archived files to another archive server and keep the GroupWise message store at a more manageable size. Overall, M+Archive works well for us and does what it needs to do to make our GroupWise collaboration platform stable and available."

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