Email Archiving: Major Update to Proofpoint Enterprise Archive Adds Exchange 2010 Support, New eDiscovery Features

We're excited to announce a new update to Proofpoint Enterprise Archive, our SaaS email archiving solution today, along with several new email archiving resources.

Pictured at left is our updated datasheet about Proofpoint Enterprise Archive, which has been enhanced with information about the latest features. (You can click the image to snag a PDF copy.)

The new version adds full support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, including support for Outlook Web Access, access to stubbed attachments and advanced search capabilities.

It also supports organizations that are migrating from earlier versions of Exchange—or that have complex email environments—because it's compatible with environments that use multiple Microsoft Exchange server versions including 2003, 2007 and 2010.

One of the primary benefits of Proofpoint Enterprise Archive is that it helps reduce legal discovery risks and costs. By providing a secure, searchable repository of all email messages, Proofpoint's email archiving solution makes it easy to perform early case assessments, instantly preserve data in active legal holds and enforce email retention policies.

“eDiscovery is critical to our firm, as attorneys must be able to store and search email records quickly during the legal hold stage at the beginning of the litigation process,” says Proofpoint customer Steven Heller, director of technology for law firm Graubard Miller (for more on the benefits Steven and his firm have realized, see this previous blog post). “We continue to trust Proofpoint for our archiving needs and are thrilled with its ability to generate search results in near-real time. New legal hold features will empower our team to track and identify key information faster and easier than ever before.” 

The new release includes a variety of enhancements to help streamline the eDiscovery process:

• Proofpoint Enterprise Archive’s active legal hold capabilities allow attorneys and staff to instantly preserve data in legal holds, in contrast to inefficient, manual, methods that are difficult to track and audit and increase legal risks of data spoliation.
• Enhanced eDiscovery capabilities make it easier for legal teams to search data in near real-time to prepare for HR, regulatory or litigation issues. Proofpoint Enterprise Archive now supports data export to EDRM XML, a standard format used in the legal industry to simplify the movement of archived data to other legal analysis tools. New search capabilities also benefit end-users who can more easily perform complex searches of their own archived email.
• Proofpoint Enterprise Archive includes compliance and supervision features for industry-specific rules and regulations such as FINRA, GLBA and HIPAA, as well as SEC policies for email storage. For organizations with supervisory compliance requirements (such as compliance with FINRA rules) Proofpoint Enterprise Archive now makes it easier to handle larger groups of supervised users, perform supervision searches and randomly sample data for auditing purposes. An enhanced supervision workflow allows records managers and compliance officers to more easily manage multiple supervision queues.

You can learn more about the solution in our complete press release... And see my next blog post for the link to a new Gartner report on email archiving strategies...

Comments

[Mark L]

Seems like Proofpoint has made some great steps forward with Exchange 2010 support.

I have a customer who heard from a Proofpoint support person that Proofpoint would not be supporting Archiving on Exchange 2010 with SP1 until maybe January.

Exchange 2010 SP1 fixes several issues with Outlook 2003 clients running in Online mode. Such as the nested folder issue and the notification delay issue.

Can you please tell me when Proofpoint support for proofpoint archiving appliances will be support by Exchange 2010 SP1?

Thanks,
Mark