* EMC's SourceOne reduces backup and storage costs
EMC last week bolstered its e-discovery, compliance and archiving software with a family of products called SourceOne that lets companies manage multiple content types from a central location. EMC claims that with SourceOne, customers can save as much as 50% on total cost of ownership and receive a total payback in as little as 12 months.
SourceOne archives e-mail and instant messages will support files, SharePoint, XML, enterprise applications in the future. EMC again claims that for companies with 1,000 mailboxes, customers can average $1 million savings in a single year and reduce their backup and storage costs by as much as 60%. At present, SourceOne works with Microsoft Exchange and IBM Lotus Notes/Domino.
SourceOne replaces EmailXtender, a product it acquired with the acquisition of Legato. SourceOne at present consists of three components.
The software de-duplicates e-mails and offers continuous data protection. It incorporates audit trails, reporting and management of records. SourceOne Discovery Collection allows the discovery of e-mails, which it then places in a repository for later management. SourceOne Discovery Manager mines data from the repository and e-mail archives and presents it to the user.
EMC partners with companies like StoredIQ to meet Electronic Discovery Reference Model standards, which it will incorporate in the future.
