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How The Cloud Enables Secure Email Archiving: IT Managed Services

The average worker spends nearly an hour and a half each day managing their emails, inbox, and email archiving important data and contacts. In addition, all of the hardware required to host and retrieve this data has a high capital and operating cost, while a staffed IT department handles troubleshooting, duplication, and disaster recovery. Clearly, the cost of doing business from the perspective of email and data storage alone can quickly become prohibitive.

Consonus offers Secure Email Archiving for Enterprises, or Consonus SAFE®, to provide effective, reliable, and simplified IT managed services without the hardware, software, and technician overhead. Consonus utilizes an exclusive license from Symantec's award winning Enterprise Vault™ technology for email archiving, data storage, and retrieval. This combination allows end users to benefit from Consonus's IT managed services while simultaneously utilizing high-end technology solutions without the capital investment.

Let us investigate the features and benefits of Consonus SAFE®.

Cutting Technology Costs

Capital investment and operating expenses for technology solutions are often prohibitive, forming a barrier to entry for small and mid-sized companies while putting significant strain on margins for larger companies. Every installed system requires a capital outlay, lead times, system optimization, and end user training. By utilizing Consonus SAFE for email archiving in a managed IT services configuration, those costs are drastically reduced or eliminated completely.

Consonus utilizes the cloud computing paradigm to deliver email archiving and recovery while eliminating expenses. This is achieved through offering services remotely on a utility or subscription basis. A client has access to all of the necessary hardware, software, support, and professional staff without having to physically own and host those resources. All services are housed by Consonus, a technology company that is focused on availability and dynamically providing the services you need.

Consonus SAFE allows email and data archiving to be offered on the lowest cost tier for storage. Without centralized data centers, businesses usually store information on many media, from USB flash drives to laptop hard drives and server clusters. By replicating all data onto a central, efficient data storage infrastructure, storage costs are reduced and disaster recovery becomes a straightforward process.

Improving Productivity

The opportunity and time costs associated with technology and email archiving can be hard to quantify, but they are present. Managing efficient data storage and use is a time consuming effort that requires dedicated staff.

A typical retention process first involved exporting emails and files from an Exchange server for every mailbox. Local backup tapes have to be accessed and duplicated. Off site tapes and remote storage sites have to be recalled. Finally, local copies with each end user, such as hard drives and flash drives, have to be individually integrated. Once all of this data has been assembled, each piece has to be checked for duplication, have password protections removed, be filtered and imaged, and then finally indexed and stored. Then, this process repeats itself on every retention cycle and email archiving period.

This entire process is simplified through Consonus SAFE®'s remote data center services. Disparate sources of information are all managed and archived under one roof and maintained by a dedicated technology firm, rather than an in-house department. Each end user sees a simple interface to upload their data and does not have to be involved in or inconvenienced by the retention process. Just like a utility, a client pays on a per-use basis and has instant access to the needed IT managed services.

Unparalleled Availability

When it comes to data security and availability, only the best will do. Losing data or data access will always occur at the worst time possible. Consonus data centers boast a proven 99.995% availability. Consonus employs redundant systems for all storage and computing process. The cloud computing paradigm ensures availability by dynamically utilizing computing resources. Data is no longer bound to one physical location or computer. Instead, arrays of resources are all capable of handling data center services independently.

Colocation and replication allows data to resist disasters by having multiple physical locations. For clients, this means their data is more protected than if it resided on a single in-house server. Disaster recovery becomes a quick and straightforward process, rather than a lengthy downtime. In fact, an office can suffer total power loss, for example, and only an internet connection is needed to regain access to important data and information.

Consonus SAFE® combines the trusted power of Symantec with the simplicity of managed IT services all with the stability and security of more than two decades of data center excellence with Consonus.