C2C Systems Archive One

Score: 4.5 out of 5
Editor's note: This is a summary of our testing of this product, see a full rundown of how it fared in our testing.

C2C tied with Mimosa for an overall second-place finish in this test, providing a wide range of capabilities and very granular management, with good ease of use. Documentation was separated by module, which made figuring out some tasks harder – this is one reason Symantec edged it out for first.

C2C Systems Archive One e-mail archiving offering comprises three components: Archive One Policy Manager 5.4, Archive One Discovery Manager 5.0 and Archive One Compliance Manager 5.4. The install is necessarily complex, as there are three applications as well as the required pieces from Microsoft, but the processes are well documented and presented no problems in our testing. Archive One also works with backup applications such as BackupExec to integrate both online, nearline and offline repositories of archived e-mail if those are required.

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Score: 4.5 out of 5
Editor's note: This is a summary of our testing of this product, see a full rundown of how it fared in our testing.

C2C tied with Mimosa for an overall second-place finish in this test, providing a wide range of capabilities and very granular management, with good ease of use. Documentation was separated by module, which made figuring out some tasks harder – this is one reason Symantec edged it out for first.

C2C Systems Archive One e-mail archiving offering comprises three components: Archive One Policy Manager 5.4, Archive One Discovery Manager 5.0 and Archive One Compliance Manager 5.4. The install is necessarily complex, as there are three applications as well as the required pieces from Microsoft, but the processes are well documented and presented no problems in our testing. Archive One also works with backup applications such as BackupExec to integrate both online, nearline and offline repositories of archived e-mail if those are required.

Archive One provides more options than most for a broad variety of tasks, including setting up one or more retention archives, backup archives, e-discovery and search functions, and policy-based search and forward mechanisms for policy enforcement or data mining purposes. The system uses either an Outlook plug-in or Web client for search and retrieval, and a laptop client is also available that can cache archives on laptops for systems that aren't always connected to the home network. This function worked well in our tests, providing an experience identical to Outlook with in the normal cached Exchange mode..

C2C offers an exceptionally flexible architecture, with the ability to create different repositories on different types of storage for different purposes. For example, it can allow for a nearline repository for capacity management and an offline repository for retention, for instance. While we tested only the standard repository to online storage, setting up the other types of repositories is simply a matter of selecting which storage connected to the server to put the repository on during the setup process.

It offers the capacity and scalability to handle very large environments as well, since storage can be as large as supported my Windows 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server 2005, which have both demonstrated high degrees of scalability and capacity into the petabyte range.

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