SYMANTEC AND NETAPP: BETTER TOGETHER
With increasing pressure to protect and manage data, government agencies are struggling to meet the demands data growth and data recoverability while staying within budget. How can your agency cater to storage and server growth? What can your agency do to deal with growing volumes of email? How secure is your agency’s data?
The solution to these ongoing demands is the combination of Symantec Enterprise Vault & NetApp Storage. Together, it is the ultimate solution for information archival and more. Read on to see why Symantec and NetApp are better together.
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Store, manage, protect and discover information critical to your agency:
Combine the market-leading security and archive technology of Symantec Enterprise Vault with scalable, reliable and flexible storage from NetApp to provide the best answer for information security, archival, discovery and availability.
Spend less time managing data
Together, Symantec and NetApp’s email archiving solutions can provide government agencies with an easily managed, highly scalable and available data management infrastructure for Exchange, file systems, and SharePoint.
Improve operational efficiency 
The combined solution, including joint support and professional services, simplifies constant archiving and enables compliance with strict records retention regulations. This solution supports a variety of data sources including:
- Microsoft® Exchange Server
- IBM Lotus Domino Server
- Windows® file servers
- Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server
- Instant Messaging
Fix your pain points
If your agency is experiencing any of the following pain points, this joint solution is a great long-term fix for these potentially crippling issues.
- Email is out of control due to growth
- Application down time that is associated with data growth
- Your backup windows aren’t large enough to cope with the
amount of data
- Huge growth in the cost of buying and managing storage
- You are unable to locate mission critical data.
Hot projects for government agencies
If your agency is thinking about the projects below, then Enterprise Vault and NetApp should be part of the solution:
- Storage Consolidation/Review/Upgrades
- Email Migration
- Data Retention for compliance and legal discovery
- Backup upgrades/reviews
Better Together: Keeping the bad things out
Our joint solution safeguards against the risks associated with incoming and outgoing messages, e-discovery and increased exposure to security breaches.
Faster backup and improved disaster recovery
- Reduces the time administrators spend on daily backups
- Postpones or remove the need for backup system upgrades
- Reduces the time required for a Disaster Recovery restore by 50-75%.
Better Together: Keeping the important things in
Our joint solution optimizes email storage to reduce overall storage costs while increasing performance and user productivity.
Intelligent Archiving
- Reduces liability by quickly finding/recovering data on disk via Enterprise Vault search/audit features.
- Protects data from modification or premature deletion via NetApp SnapLock®, which meets the most stringent criteria for regulatory compliance support.
Better Together: Retaining things only as long as necessary
Our joint solution increases efficiencies through effective storage and consolidation methods.
Storage Optimization
- Block unwanted content and seamlessly move files to alternate storage devices without affecting the end user.
- Block or delete files by file type, age, or other criteria.
Server consolidation
- Reduces servers by archiving old data onto NetApp secondary storage and consolidating remaining data on primary storage.
Better Together: Finding things easily when needed
Our joint solution enables agencies to quickly and easily search, recover and discover important information.
Eliminates .PST Headaches
- Enterprise Vault eliminates mailbox quotas and PST files by moving and consolidating select attachments, documents, and public folders to a centralized NetApp NearStore system.
- Contents of archived files are indexed for rapid search and retrieval by end users and compliance departments.
Eases Exchange Migration
- Reduces the number of servers and migration complexity.
- Archiving e-mail before migration reduces the migration time and leaves your organization with a long-term solution instead of a simple migration.
Resources:
Case Study: Fulton County, Georgia Case Study
Video: Advantages of EV on NetApp
Demo: NetApp and Symantec Archival and e-Discovery
Whitepaper: Simplifying Email Archiving with NetApp
DataSheet:Symantec Enterprise Vault Overview
Gartner Study: Magic Quadrant for E-mail Active Archiving
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