TVS Extends its Lead in Archive Migration Software

A variety of business and technical concerns (mergers and acquisitions, under-performing archive systems, the releases of EV8 from Symantec and SourceOne from EMC, etc) drove very strong demand for archive migrations in 2009. That growth is continuing to accelerate in 2010. TVS is staying ahead of the wave with the recent release of TransVault v5.

TransVault v5 adds new connectors for EMC SourceOne and Microsoft Exchange 2010. The latter connector is in direct response to demand from unregulated companies planning to eliminate their archive system and restore their data to Exchange 2010, either on-premise or in the cloud (Microsoft BPOS).

V5 also includes a new and extensible reporting platform that enables advanced progress tracking and chain-of-custody auditing so customers can be absolutely certain nothing is missed or altered during the archive migration process - a vital consideration for compliance and data discovery requirements.

For more information on Transvault, please click on the url below:
http://www.flexnet.com/Email_Archive_Migration/Email_Archive_Migration.htm

Or please email us to learn more about Transvault. We also have an archive migration checklist to help you plan your archive migration.

TVS now supports – over 200 email archive migration combinations!

TransVault Software (TVS) has today announced version 4.7 of its email archive migration solution bringing the number of supported migration combinations to over 200. This new release adds large-scale, audited restorations into Microsoft Exchange servers; movement of data to and from cloud-based archives, and extraction out of legacy iLumin archives. The new Microsoft Exchange Connector enables all supported archive formats to send data directly into Exchange servers. As well as migrating the contents of 3rd party archives into the new Exchange 2010 archiving facility, organizations can use this connector to reconstruct vital email evidence archived from journal mailboxes such as BCC’d emails and emails sent to distribution lists. It also gives the opportunity to re-architect data across a new Exchange server configuration.

An EML File Extraction Connector is designed to help customers move archives from a cloud-based service back to an on-premise archive or simply back into Exchange and an iLumin Assentor Extraction Connector will be used to help consolidate some of the oldest email archives in corporate America.

With full integration into the TransVault pluggable framework these new connectors benefit from the full auditing, automation and process control features proven during many migration projects.

According to Andy Clare, EMEA and AsiaPac region Business Development Manager at TVS, “The variety of migration scenarios our product can now address is growing in giant leaps with each new release. TransVault is enabling organizations to future-proof their legacy archive-data with the flexibility of choosing between onsite, hosted and now Microsoft archiving platforms.”

For more information on TransVault click on the url below.http://www.flexnet.com/TransVault/Email_Archive_Migration.htm

TransVault 4.5 Now Includes 3 New Email Archive Migration Platforms

TransVault 4.5 is a high-performance Email Archive Migration utility that securely migrates and consolidates e-mail and other related records from one archive format to another, ensuring 100% future accessibility for your data. It offers a series of connectors that support migration of emails between industry-leading archive formats, as well as the email migration of data held in systems that are maturing or declining in popularity into newer, more capable environments.

TransVault 4.5 is now available and brings new opportunities for companies wanting to extract data from EMC, Quest and Symantec archives.

At a glance V4.5 includes:

• An EMC EmailXtender for Notes Extraction Connector that enables IBM Notes to Microsoft Exchange migrations by exporting archived Notes data into Exchange format ready for output to PST, EML or MSG formats, as well as directly into a new Exchange archive!
• Our new Quest Archive Manager Extraction Connector gets data out of this Exchange archive and into files or a replacement archive. TransVault migrates archive shortcuts/stubs too so that users have minimal interruption as their email history finds its new home.
• An enhanced Extraction Connector for Symantec Enterprise Vault that delivers full support for customers working with the new Version 8 release for Microsoft Exchange. Allied to the TransVault EV Ingestion Connector this capability will enable you to address interesting new storage refresh and acquisition scenarios.

With full integration into the TransVault pluggable framework these new connectors all benefit from the auditing, automation and process control features proven during many migration projects.

Working with a Certified TransVault Partner will ensure the best planning, implementation & support for your migration project.

To view our Email Archive Migration Preplanning Checklist Click here for further information: http://www.flexnet.com/whitepaperDL/email_archive_migration_preplanning_checklist.htm

For more product information contact us at : http://www.flexnet.com/TransVault/Email_Archive_Migration.htm

Business Drivers Behind Email Archive Migrations

In an economy in which IT spending is generally constrained, we are seeing strong growth in demand for email archive migrations.

The drivers behind email archive migrations vary—mergers and acquisitions; poor vendor support; EMC’s announcement of EmailXtender’s end of life; increased interest in hosted archiving services—but everyone faced with the prospect of migrating large quantities of data from one archive system to another (either on premise or in the cloud) has the same concerns about how the migration can be completed quickly, securely, and without a massive expenditure on professional services.

TransVault Software is the world leader in high-volume email archive migration solutions. The key phrase here is ‘high volume’ because TransVault is able to migrate massive quantities of data very quickly. TransVault can migrate in days what would take months in a manual professional services engagement.

With the release of TransVault v4.4, TVS now offers additional capabilities to further automate and accelerate email archive migrations....and thereby further reduce the cost and complexity of moving your legacy data to a new archive system.

If you are considering an email archive migration, please contact us to learn more about TransVault.

http://www.flexnet.com/TransVault/Email_Archive_Migration.htm

Email Archive Migration Preplanning Checklist

An email archive migration is a complex project that requires careful planning. Regardless of the reason for your need to migrate archived data (more on that below), you must consider issues such as chain of custody, data discovery requirements, data conversion time, and—of course—total migration project cost.

How you address each of those issues depends on factors unique to your environment: your source archive system, your target archive system, your volume of archived data, whether you opt for a manual services-based archive migration or an automated software-driven migration, and much more.

We’ve prepared an email archive migration project checklist to help you plan your archive migration and thereby avoid unforeseen pitfalls. Download a copy here if any of these scenarios sound familiar:


-Business Change. Is your company going through a merger, acquisition or divestiture, or do staff or entire departments often re-locate between locations? Archived records will almost certainly need to be amalgamated, extracted or moved to reflect organizational change.
-Archive Architecture Upgrade. Archive vendors often have to re-architect their product to improve performance and scalability. This may mean you need to migrate data stored in a legacy archive format to take full advantage of a new archive architecture.
-Improve scalability. Are retrievals or archive runs taking too long? Are you facing major infrastructure upgrades to accommodate growth? If your original archive is not ‘up to the job’ of servicing your needs, a move to better/newer technology will save money and improve service levels.
-Reduce Cost of Ownership. Is your IT team spending too much time and expense ‘nursing’ your existing archive: restarting stopped processes, responding to help desk calls, etc? To quote a customer that migrated from a legacy archive platform: “with [the previous solution] we went from being full time Exchange administrators to full time archive administrators”.
-E-Discovery Capability. Is your archive platform failing to provide adequate discovery and litigation support services? Secure, audited and rapid transitioning of your archived data to an alternative platform or specialist service with the additional discovery capabilities your organization needs could save your company millions.
-Protection Against Obsolescence. Has your incumbent archive supplier fallen by the wayside? Will your original storage choice last to meet evolving retention needs? Although you chose the best technoloy at the time, if were an early adopter these are likely scenarios and you need to ensure your data does not get locked in.
-Change in IT Model. Does your organization want to outsource its IT services or use cloud computing? If so, your users will want to maintain access to legacy data via the new service.
-Better Support. Has the quality of service offered by your original vendor diminished? An unsupported version or unresponsive supplier could threaten the ongoing accessibility of your data.

For more information, visit our web site at:

http://www.flexnet.com/whitepaperDL/email_archive_migration_preplanning_checklist.htm

TransVault Software releases TransVault v4.3 with full support for the Enterprise Vault API.

Developed under the Symantec Technology Enabled Program (STEP), TransVault for Symantec Enterprise Vault™ is a Microsoft Windows-based application that enables legacy email archives to be quickly, transparently and securely migrated to (and within) Enterprise Vault.

TransVault consists a performance-optimized data migration engine that processes extremely large numbers of archived emails. Data can be processed selectively—for example, by date range, by group, by user—to facilitate specific migration requirements. TransVault can also migrate/re-point stubs from legacy archives to their corresponding items in Enterprise Vault, and it can reformat mail if necessary—eg, from john.doe@acme.com to jdoe@newcorp.com. And of utmost importance is the fact that every action is logged for audit purposes to help ensure chain of custody and discoverability of your migrated data.

• Symantec Enterprise Vault:
  - Extraction from 5.0, 6.0, 7.0 and 7.5
  - Ingestion into 7.0, 7.5, 8.0


• Autonomy ZANTAZ EAS


• IXOS?]eCONserver (Open Text)


• EMC EmailXtender (Legato)


• EMC Centera


• Hosted archive systems


• .PST, .EML and .MSG files
  
  For migrations to Enterprise Vault the benefits are compelling:

• Fast and seamless transition to EV:
  - No need for lengthy and expensive, services-based migration projects


• Legacy archive assessment:
  - Helps optimize new EV architecture
  - Prevents data loss due to corruption or ‘forgotten’ archives
  - Highlights potential problem areas


• Selective data transfer capability:
  - Helps organizations restructure their data in response to business and usage change
  - Helps re-architect archives to achieve optimum performance


• Direct and audited transfer directly into EV:
  - Preserves chain-of-custody
  - Avoids potential for tampering or loss of data during migration
  - Reduces migration time, with no intermediate storage required


• Optional address re-writing ensures legacy email addresses reflect any moves to a new domain


• Shortcut (stub) conversion ensures 100% user transparency and zero downtime
  
  
  For more information, visit our web site at:
  
  

http://www.flexnet.com/TransVault/Email_Archive_Migration.htm

TransVault Introduces software for Easy Email Archive Migration from EMC's EmailXtender.

TransVault Software continues to expand its library of connectors – they’ve just added support for EMC’s EmailXtender to facilitate high-speed, automated migrations from (or to) EmailXtender. The new version also supports EMC Centera.

Architecturally, TransVault consists of a performance-optimized data migration engine that processes large numbers of archived emails in parallel, applying conversion and transformation when required. The library of connectors enable fast and easy migrations from legacy systems to new target systems. Connectors presently support EAS, Enterprise Vault, OpenText/IXOS, and EmailXtender. An extraction that might takes months using these products’ native tools may be completed in days using TransVault.

Next up for TransVault? V4.3, due early in 2009, will include API support for Symantec Enterprise Vault, delivering the tightest, most seamless archive-to-archive data transfer capability. Uniquely, this version also offers the ability to convert ‘legacy’ shortcuts in users’ mailboxes so that they work seamlessly with the new EV archive service. Note also that it was co-developed with EV’s product management team.

TransVault welcomes connector requests from customers, so please contact us if you need to migrate from your existing email archive system.


For more information on TransVault please click on the url below:


http://www.flexnet.com/TransVault/Email_Archive_Migration.htm