Symantec Enterprise Vault Archiving ( v. 11.0 ) - license

Planning for, managing, and storing an explosion of information is only part of the challenge. Regardless of whether your organization is regulated or not, there is a growing need to search electronic information for many reasons including: internal audits, HR requests, compliance supervision, and legal cases. Without archiving your information to a central repository, this can be a time consuming and manual process. Archiving helps you be more proactive and prepared when it comes to search and eDiscovery because it's not a matter of if, but a matter of when.

Not only does Enterprise Vault Archiving optimize your primary storage but Enterprise Vault itself is engineered to be efficient. When information is archived, it is indexed, compressed, and deduplicated to reduce the footprint and total cost of ownership of the archive. When a file has already been archived once, Enterprise Vault knows not to store it twice. And even though it is not deduplicated in the archive, users maintain access to it until the retention period has expired.

To help you reduce costs, Enterprise Vault is storage agnostic, meaning it does not rely on any specific type of storage device. Data can be stored on any combination of supported storage devices, allowing data to be tiered and moved over time to ensure that as data ages it gets stored on the most suitable storage medium and that archived data has the smallest possible storage footprint. Also, Enterprise Vault can store to storage devices that have native deduplication functionality. In these cases, customers turn off Enterprise Vault deduplication and instead leverage the appliance deduplication. Enterprise Vault is also VMware Ready certified, allowing you to benefit from the increased agility of running in a virtual environment while maintaining similar performance to running on a physical server.