Today, EMC announced SourceOne, another replacement for its email archiving product EmailXtender – the third in five years. It is version 1.0 of a brand new product offering limited interoperability with existing EmailXtender archives and Documentum. We believe EMC customers deserve better, which is why Symantec is offering EMC EmailXtender customers a way to quickly and easily migrate to the world’s #1 email archiving product, Enterprise Vault.
Migrating to Enterprise Vault offers the following advantages that EMC has yet to deliver:
• Integrated SharePoint Archiving to reduce storage and E-Discovery costs.
• Integrated File Archiving to shrink backups, reduce storage and enable rapid e-discovery.
• Proven E-Discovery tools to meet longstanding legal requirements and compliance regulations.
Best Practices for Microsoft Exchange Archiving and Retention Policy Development
When: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 at 11 am PST/2 pm EST
Speakers:
Grace Ruiz Little, Assistant Director Computing & Communications, ODU
Aaron Smith, Messaging Support, ODU
Sean Regan, Product Marketing Manager, Symantec
Webcast Summary: This webcast will detail Old Dominion University’s Notes to Exchange Migration which featured a Deployment of Microsoft Exchange 2007 and Symantec Enterprise Vault.
Our senior product management team recently recorded some videos and they talk about what we've been doing with V8 which will hopefully help to give you an insight into our new release - so if you have a few minutes to spare they are well worth watching.
Art Gilliland, VP of Product Management for Information Risk Management, provides insight into the current state of archiving and how Enterprise Vault 8.0 meets current and future customer requirements.
Now that we've shipped V8 we thought you'd want to know our service pack schedule for 2009, the dates are of course tentative but on the whole we stuck to our advertised schedule throughout 2008 and would hope to do the same in 2009. For the V8 SPs we would hope to advise of exact release dates nearer the time.
EV2007 SP5 Feb 25th
EV 8.0 SP1 April
EV 8.0 SP2 July
EV 8.0 SP3 TBC
NB. Unless we advise otherwise, we will also be shipping SPs for DA & CA when we ship each core SP
Now that the holidays are out of the way, welcome back to what will no doubt be a roller coaster year as if 2008 wasn't enough for us all.
Anyway - onto the topic of this post.
We are pleased to announce that during the holiday period , we formally released Enterprise Vault 8.0 (EV 8.0) and it is now available for download via the FileConnect portal ; you can also order a media kit from there as well.
So your first task is to login into the portal and download the software and documentation. Then you can start to think about the planning, testing and preparation for your upgrade to version EV 8.0 from your existing EV 2007 environment. We’ll be posting more information on this site in the coming weeks to explain a little bit more about the new features and...
The EV team are alive and well and continue rocking all over the world!
Contrary to a few hopeful blog postings predicting the early demise of the EV product team and the end of Symantec’s focus on the archiving market’s #1 product, we’re pleased to re-affirm that there was zero impact to the overall EV team by the recent Symantec organisational changes. This includes the EV product team, engineering, product management, marketing, field enablement, consultancy and support; in fact we have recently added numbers to some of these teams as demand continues for EV to outstrip the general market growth!
The EV team is one of the main reasons why it is the archiving market’s #1 product because within it we have the following groups of dedicated & hard working people.
We have just released a new technote which explains the recommended method to support a new minor release of Domino (e.g. 7.0.x, 8.0.x, etc) as an Enterprise Vault 'target mail server for archiving only', prior to full certification of the new minor release by the Enterprise Vault certification team. When there is a new a minor version of Domino, the Enterprise Vault certification team may need to undertake an extensive testing effort. This is to ensure that all supported functionality of that Domino server version as both an Enterprise Vault Domino Gateway and a target mail server continue to operate as expected. If you need to upgrade your Domino mail servers to the latest minor release before we have completed our certification process , then read the following technote to understand how this should be done to keep within the boundaries of what will be supported by Symantec.
Archiving from an Exchange 2007 server which is running on Windows Server 2008 is now supported with Enterprise Vault 2007 SP3 or later. We know this has been a popular question from the field so hope this news is just what you wanted to hear.
NB. Running Enterprise Vault on Windows Server 2008 is not currently supported
1) The chance to let us know what you think about Enterprise Vault....!
2) A chance to win an Apple iTouch....!!!
Yes - we thought that would get your attention...now read on to find out how to participate.
You are cordially invited to participate in the annual Symantec Enterprise Vault Customer Survey – we respect your opinion, so your participation is vitally important to the future evolution of Enterprise Vault!
We appreciate that the survey is quite lengthy, so any non-mandatory sections can be skipped if they are not relevant to your organisation.
Every completed survey will be eligible to participate in a prize draw to win one of five Apple iTouch devices – the draw will take place in early...
How to do backups of your Enterprise Vault environment
At the begining of this year we told you about a best practice document we'd published to help you understand how to manage your EV system from a backup perspective. Well there's been a complete re-write of this document and we're sure you'll want to read this latest version.
This updated best practise document discusses the inherent need to securely backup Enterprise Vault servers to insure best available DR scenarios. With several very important information sources integrated with Enterprise Vault, it is critical that proper backups of his data be performed on a regular basis. This paper considers the impact this has on Enterprise Vault ways customers can easily implement a high degree of coverage for their archived content.
It is important to understand that it is a Best Practise to regularly backup he components of your Enterprise Vault...
The Symantec Certification Team is seeking beta candidates for the new Administration of Symantec Enterprise Vault 2007 for Exchange Certification Exam. This exam will test users knowledge and skills necessary to plan, deploy, manage, and monitor Symantec Enterprise Vault 2007 for Exchange.
The first 100 candidates worldwide to register and complete the exam will be certified for FREE!
In June , the whole product team were at Vision in Las Vegas. It was a great event and EV featured prominently with various breakout sessions, panel sessions and a fantastic social event. So in October we hope to repeat this in Europe when Vision rolls in The Hague in Holland.
So please mark October 7th to 9th in your diary.....better still, click on the link below and sign up while the Early Bird offer is still on, this offer runs till July 15th. The holiday season is upon us so make sure you do this soon....before you know it it will be September.
