Symantec Enterprise Vault provides a software-based intelligent archiving platform that stores, manages and enables discovery of corporate data from email systems, filer server environments, instant messaging platforms and content management and collaboration systems. Enterprise Vault uses intelligent classification engines to manage data, improving a company's ability to retain and protect corporate information while reducing storage costs and simplifying management.

Best In Class Microsoft Support

Symantec is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner with the rare designation of "Managed ISV", a title given only to a handful of companies worldwide. Since 1999, Enterprise Vault has been focused on adding value to the Microsoft ecosystem, most notably Microsoft Exchange. This theme continues with the release of Enterprise Vault 7.0.

• First archiving solution to support Exchange 2007, Windows Desktop Search and Rights Management Server.
• First native instant messaging archiving support, including Live Communication Server.
• High Availability through Microsoft Cluster Server.
• Macintosh support through Microsoft Entourage and Safari.

Intelligent Archiving Platform

Many companies use e-mail as a primary business tool. Orders, contracts, and other similar types of data need to be maintained either voluntarily or due to regulations. Intelligent Archiving brings the benefit of controlled preservation and disposition of these documents with granular retention of record and non-record items. Intelligent Archviing can also extend corporate policies into the archive which will preserve and hold items in place. Enterprise Vault 7.0 introduces several new features that enable the intelligent archiving of corporate information, including:

• Automated Classification Engine—Automatically classify and archive email based on content and metadata reducing archive sizes and minimizing search times.
• User Based Classification Engine—Enable user-driven classification of email to tag items for faster and more efficient search and review.
• Enterprise Content Management System Integration—Enables companies to incorporate archiving with their records management systems.

Enterprise Class Administration

Archiving has quickly moved beyond an Exchange administrator's pilot project for reducing Exchange storage to an integral part of an information lifecycle strategy for many companies. This often requires many different types of users to manage parts of the archive. Because email is a mission critical application, archiving should be treated equally mission critical. To do this it is critical the archive administrator has access to real time performance metrics, reports and analytics to ensure the application and the archive are running as expected. Enterprise Vault 7.0 introduces new features to make the management of the archive simple while maintaing the power and flexibility our customers demand.

• Secure, Role-based Administration—Isolates administrative features and functionality. Admin roles define what can be done on which objects.
• Granular Provisioning—Not all users are created equal and one size should not fit all. Granular provisioning ensures every user gets the what they require while providing variances for the "exception" user.
• Advanced Reporting, Alerting and Diagnostics—Provides detailed reports on archive performance, usage and growth as well as alerting and diagnostics for more proactive visibility to ensure there are no surprises.