| rsquo;re happy with your organization’s | | | | features. Enterprise Email Archive, for example, |
| current electronic data management policy that | | | | reduces data by anywhere from 50% to 80%. Data |
| involves storing terabytes or petabytes of data, | | | | compression can be used for all tiers of storage. |
| causing your servers to perform at impressive | | | | When combined with de-duplication technology, the |
| snail-like speeds and waste time and power, more | | | | data storage sizes can be reduced to a quarter of |
| power to youliterally. For everyone else, | | | | their original size. |
| MessageSolution asks you to consider how archiving | | | | Deduplication/Single Instance Storage |
| your electronic data helps not only your company, | | | | Single instance storage technology locates multiple |
| but the whole world, by reducing your | | | | instances of the same file and stores only one copy, |
| company’s data footprints. | | | | thereby deduplicating archive reserves. Imagine how |
| Like many green technologies, archiving is an | | | | many times one email is sent to multiple employees |
| eco-friendly technology that also saves plenty of the | | | | or how many times the same attachment can be |
| other kind of green. The goal of | | | | forwarded around. Without deduplication, every copy |
| MessageSolution’s storage management | | | | of an email or attachment sent to multiple employees |
| archiving software is more efficient use of existing | | | | or sent multiple times (or both!) would be stored to |
| corporate resources, which leads to a reduction in a | | | | the archive, which wastes space in the archive and |
| company’s data footprints. The effects of | | | | wastes time during e-discovery searches. |
| reducing your data footprints include increasing | | | | When reviewing archiving products, be sure to ask if |
| productivity, lowering power usage and cooling | | | | the product supports single instance storage of |
| requirements, and utilizing fewer resources, both | | | | attachments as well as emails. Why is this a critical |
| human and financial. | | | | point? Most businesses follow the 80/20 rule: |
| Sponsored by information technology analysts and | | | | 80% of storage space is used by large attachments, |
| consultants, lists
archiving, on-line compression | | | | which comprise only 20% of total electronic |
| & single instance storage (de-duplication) archiving | | | | communications. Most archiving products deduplicate |
| as primary methods for data footprint reduction. | | | | emails, but fewer also deduplicate attachments. |
| These methods help businesses reduce their power | | | | Neglecting attachments during the dedupe process |
| consumption and IT resources without sacrificing | | | | significantly reduces total storage volume reduction. |
| functionality. In fact, every green technology | | | | Tiered Storage/Hierarchical Storage Management |
| mentioned below actually increases functionality and | | | | According to GreenDataStorage.com, tiered storage |
| reduces the cost of information lifecycle | | | | or hierarchical storage management involves |
| management. | | | | aligning applicable storage and media to data and |
| Archiving | | | | application requirements. In other words, tiered |
| Archiving is the act of collecting and storing data for | | | | storage or hierarchical storage management is the |
| future use. Archiving allows companies to retain as | | | | process of placing less frequently used data on less |
| much data as they need by capturing and offloading | | | | performance-intensive storage devices, resulting in a |
| data from email and file servers to a storage device. | | | | tiered’ or hierarchical’ storage |
| Archiving data off the email and file servers removes | | | | scheme. Hierarchical storage management reduces |
| a large workload from the servers, allowing them to | | | | overall energy usage by storing data more efficiently. |
| function more efficiently and use less energy to | | | | Another added benefit of tiered storage is cost |
| perform tasks. Archiving tends to place a very low | | | | reductionbut even if we could all afford to store |
| burden on CPU resources. For example, Enterprise | | | | everything on more expensive and power-intensive |
| Email Archive utilizes only about 3-5% of CPU | | | | devices, that doesn’t mean we should. |
| resources. | | | | So if your IT department is ready to go green, |
| By centralizing historical data, archiving improves the | | | | consider a process like archiving that also improves |
| efficiency of backup processes, as well as disaster | | | | internal efficiency and reduces operational costs, |
| recovery and e-discovery efforts. Locating and | | | | which makes CFO’s (and the Earth) very |
| restoring data from an archive database is much | | | | happy. |
| faster than ad hoc efforts to locate data on multiple | | | | About MessageSolution, Inc. |
| storage devices and even individual | | | | MessageSolution empowers today’s |
| employees’ computers. Archiving lowers the | | | | organizations to better manage their messaging |
| burden placed on primary systems and IT staff by | | | | resources and corporate intelligence, whether their |
| optimizing data storage. Another great way to utilize | | | | ultimate goal is to comply with industry or federal |
| storage resources more efficiently is by compressing | | | | regulations, to respond more quickly to electronic |
| data. | | | | discovery or litigation hold requests, to reduce |
| Data Compression | | | | storage requirements and costs, to optimize server |
| According to GreenDataStorage.com, data | | | | functioning, or to prepare for disaster recovery. With |
| compression’s ultimate goal is to reduce | | | | more than 20 years of high tech experience, the |
| the size of data to create a corresponding reduction | | | | MessageSolution team puts their skills to work |
| in network bandwidth or storage capacity. | | | | creating software to solve IT problems for |
| Fortunately, many archiving products include | | | | enterprises in various industries across the world. Find |
| compression as one of their storage reduction | | | | more information on MessageSolution. |