Avoid The Clutter Caused By Email Archiving

When considering an email archiving solution, be careful to consider the potential “clutter” it may cause to your existing Exchange environment. There are three areas to be concerned with.

First, consider how the email archival solution impacts your Exchange Server. Does it use MAPI to remove old email? If so, this job will consume major amounts of server CPU and memory resources. Be careful how you deploy MAPI.

Second, consider the potential impact of Exchange journaling, if enabled for email discovery. Journaling is well known CPU and memory hog and will it double disk I/O requirements. If you are planning to enable journaling for email discovery, then you should plan on adding a new dedicated Exchange Server to support it.

Finally, consider the impact on the desktops of end users if agents or Outlook plug-ins are required for email archive access.

I have outlined three key areas where email archiving can have a major impact on your current Exchange environment. When shopping for email archival, be certain to fully understand the potential impact of each, depending on your deployment plans.

I urge you to consider a new next generation email archival solution that does not use MAPI or journaling to capture email from Exchange, and do not require desktop agents.

Only Mimosa offers full email archiving without any MAPI, Journaling or Desktop clutter.

By: Sarah Howard

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Sarah Howard writes for Mimosa Systems about information management solutions that unify email archiving, data protection and disaster recovery in one solution. Mimosa Systems provides email archiving, ediscovery, data recovery, data storage, and document management for the new generation of critical enterprise information.