New Postini Archive Manager service will reduce cost and complexity of mail server storage.

Postini, a provider of email security and management solutions, today announced the availability of Postini Personal Archive to reduce the cost and complexity of mail server storage while giving users continuous access to a permanent, instantly searchable archive of all email and instant messaging (IM) conversations.

Postini Personal Archive builds on the Postini Archive Manager service and the company's managed security platform to make message archiving an operational cost savings for administrators and provide unlimited mailbox size for end users. It is designed to significantly reduce the cost and complexity of mail server storage by sending a copy of all messages to Postini's secure, redundant data centers. Users are able to search, retrieve, view and restore any message managed by Personal Archive at any time via any web browser.

Key features of Postini's Personal Archive include enabling operational archiving, giving end users access to all email for a pre-determined time period and all IM conversations, allowing them to quickly search their personal archive and recover any archived message and store archived messages.

"With the launch of Personal Archive, Postini is establishing a hierarchy of service-based archiving solutions that address the broad, real-world, secure messaging needs of our customers," said Andrew Lochart, Senior Director of Marketing at Postini. "This new solution makes Postini the first managed service company to integrate compliance archiving with operational archiving and IM archival support."