How it Works – EMS Enterprise Archive™: Storage Management
Attachments make up a high percentage of typical email stores and by replacing attachments with stubs and storing a single instance of each attachment, email stores can be reduced by as much as 80%.
With EMS Enterprise Archive’s storage management option, administrators can set granular attachment stubbing policies based on size, age, and type for users, mailboxes, servers, or groups. When attachments are stubbed they are removed from the Exchange data store but still are accessible via the archive directly from the original message.
EMS™ provides users with virtually infinite mailboxes while reducing backup times and email data storage costs. Unlike log-shipping solutions that generate high data volumes, all messages are single-instanced and compressed on the client side to minimize storage and bandwidth requirements.
EMS is the first managed service to offer integration with Microsoft® Outlook® for attachment stubbing and direct archive searching without leaving the Outlook interface. Users can search the archive, retrieve stored attachments, and restore lost messages directly from Outlook or any web browser.
With EMS Enterprise Archive’s storage management, you can:
- Reduce email data stores by as much as 80%
- Gain precise stubbing control
- Integrate with Active Directory® to automatically set storage management rules.
- Easily access stubbed attachments from Outlook
- Improve Exchange performance
- Lower cost and complexity by using a single data store
- Reduce email data stores by as much as 80%
Provide users with virtually infinite mailboxes, while reducing backup times and email data storage costs. EMS automatically migrates attachments from Exchange to the archive, leaving a stub that allows seamless end-user retrieval directly from the original message. - Gain precise stubbing control
Attachments can be stubbed based on size, age, and type, allowing administrators to remove inactive content from Exchange while preserving it in the archive. - Integrate with Active Directory to automatically set storage management rules
Rules can be set mailbox-by-mailbox, server-by-server, group-by-group, user-by-user, etc. using information from synchronized with Active Directory. - Seamlessly access stubbed attachments from Outlook
Stubbed attachments can be seamlessly accessed in Outlook, OWA, or from a wireless device. Users can stub or localize attachments by right-clicking in Outlook. - Improve Exchange performance
The message body is never stubbed, so Exchange performance is never degraded. By removing up to 80% of the content of the primary message store, the Exchange workload is reduced and performance improved. - Lower cost and complexity by using a single data store
Lower cost and complexity by using a single store for archiving, disaster recovery, Legal Holds, backup, redundancy, and high-availability.
