Features and benefits
Enterprise information archive
Archive less-frequently accessed information across multiple content sources including Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint, IBM Lotus Domino, and file servers to reclaim and reuse expensive storage resources.
Flexible .PST and .NSF migration
Automatically locate and migrate existing .PST and .NSF files into the archive, helping you regain control of the information contained within those files. Central control of .PST and .NSF files helps streamline eDiscovery and reduce storage costs, backup windows, and risk associated with lost or stolen files.
Seamless end user experience
Provide easy access to archived information anytime, anywhere via users’ existing tools (Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Notes, SharePoint, etc.); while online, disconnected from the network, or on mobile devices.
Flexible classification
Empower your end users to move individual email into unique retention folders based on parameters set forth by your organization, or analyze Exchange email content and metadata with Symantec Enterprise Vault Data Classification Services to automatically determine the archive and retention strategy for that message and attachment. Classification tags may also be assigned to flag the message for supervisory review within Symantec Enterprise Vault Compliance Accelerator. These tags are also searchable and can be used as filters within Symantec Enterprise Vault Discovery Accelerator and the Clearwell eDiscovery Platform from Symantec.
Intuitive electronic discovery with guided review
Improve the identification and review of archived content with advanced search, conversation threading, and bulk marking and tagging. Relevant items are easily preserved on legal hold within the archive. Integration with the Clearwell eDiscovery Platform from Symantec expands search to non-archived content and allows for more granular review and analysis by compliance and legal teams.
Low total cost of ownership
Maintain an efficient archive by using flexible deployment options (physical or virtual), storage tiering, compression, and global deduplication.
An archive for all content sources
Natively and through integrated partners, Enterprise Vault targets sources across the data center to archive infrequently accessed, duplicate, and business records into a centrally managed repository. Information is indexed, compressed, deduplicated, and made available to end users and administrative and legal purposes.
Exchange and Domino archiving
When email goes down or users can’t send or receive email due to their quotas, productivity decreases and users become frustrated. With Enterprise Vault, you can essentially eliminate quotas and give users a virtually unlimited mailbox while controlling message store growth. Time spent on mailbox housekeeping, creating PSTs, or calling the helpdesk can be drastically reduced. Administrator-defined policies automatically archive individual messages and attachments from Exchange and Domino into Enterprise Vault. For example, an archive policy can be created to start archiving based on size and/or age when a user reaches 70 percent of their mailbox quota. Optionally, shortcuts are provided, allowing users to easily search and access items transparently through Outlook, Lotus Notes, or via extended Web-based email clients. Server performance and scalability is dramatically improved and users enjoy instant access to all of their email, whether they are online, offline, or on a mobile device.
Vault Cache and Virtual Vault
Vault Cache and Virtual Vault are built-in features of Enterprise Vault focused on making the end user experience as seamless and easy as possible. Vault Cache provides users with an intuitive, fast way to access their archived email regardless if connected to the network or not, by caching a copy of archived messages locally. With Virtual Vault, end user search, and retrieval of archived email is performed using the native Outlook interface and search tools with no reliance on shortcuts. Users can click, drag, search, and retrieve archived email from within Outlook just as they would with live email from the Exchange Server.
SharePoint archiving
As user adoption increases, SharePoint indexes and storage resources can quickly become strained. SharePoint archiving reduces the clutter created from users posting and forgetting files, from multiple document versions, and from orphaned project sites. Enterprise Vault archives from the critical components of SharePoint including document, slide and picture libraries, and social elements such as discussion boards, wikis, blogs, and lists. Archiving reduces the bloat of your SharePoint resources while maintaining end user productivity and supporting your information governance strategies.
Symantec NetBackup and Symantec Backup Exec integration
A backup is not an archive. They are two separate functions—backup is for recovery whereas archiving is for storage optimization and eDiscovery. Deploying Enterprise Vault can improve backup and recovery SLAs by removing static and duplicate data from the daily, weekly, and monthly backup processes. Symantec NetBackup, Symantec Backup Exec, and Enterprise Vault integration allows you to define automatic, policy-based migration strategies that move archived data from disk managed by Enterprise Vault to tape or other media managed by NetBackup or Backup Exec, helping you leverage your backup infrastructure to manage archived data and reduce your long term total cost of ownership. NetBackup and Backup Exec can both be used to backup the critical components of Enterprise Vault.
Improve search and eDiscovery
Any IT administrator or legal counsel who has had to respond to a lawsuit, internal investigation, or compliance audit understands the challenges of information governance, meeting court-sanctioned deadlines, and expensive thirdparty review. The entire process needs to be streamlined and made easier to defensibly and cost-effectively respond to eDiscovery requests. The answer is an intelligent information governance solution with a purpose-built eDiscovery platform. Enterprise Vault provides a single repository of information archived across multiple content sources. This ensures that relevant information is correctly preserved and made available for eDiscovery cases. Archived information is indexed and searchable, allowing investigators to conduct an early case assessment with Enterprise Vault Discovery Accelerator and more robust review and analysis with the Clearwell eDiscovery Platform from Symantec.
Enterprise Vault Compliance Accelerator allows companies to perform cost-effective supervisory review of email to help ensure compliance with corporate policy and regulatory bodies. Providing the framework to select and sample target email, manage its review by appropriate reviewers, and record the process for audit purposes, Compliance Accelerator helps decrease the cost and effort of email supervision, review, and compliance. Compliance Accelerator can further automate the process when used in conjunction with Data Classification Services by flagging tagged Exchange messages for review.
How to leverage the cloud
Symantec provides you with the flexibility to deploy best-ofbreed archiving solutions on-premise, hybrid, or in the cloud. Regardless of the deployment model, Symantec can provide the solution that best meets the immediate and long-term information management goals of your organization.
Symantec Enterprise Vault.cloud (100 percent Softwareas- a-Service)
Enterprise Vault.cloud allows you to address the challenges of email storage management, eDiscovery, and regulatory compliance with the ease and efficiency of a purely hosted service. With no hardware, software, or plug-ins to install and maintain, Enterprise Vault.cloud offers unlimited cloud storage with rapid search and retrieval for a flat fee per mailbox per month.
Symantec Managed Enterprise Vault
Symantec Managed Enterprise Vault is a monitoring, management, and support service for organizations that want to retain their data on-premise while leveraging the benefits of remote management.
