SonaSafe email archiving solution enables customers meet regulatory compliance and eDiscovery requirements.

Sonasoft Corp., a provider of compliance, disaster recovery and data protection solutions for the Microsoft platform today announced the availability of its email archiving solution for Microsoft Exchange Server. The company states that the new offering is an easy to use solution specifically designed for addressing the pain points of SMB customers.

It explains that email has been growing at the rate of 40% every year and managing emails has become very complex and Microsoft Exchange Server is not only being used as an email server, it is also being used as document repository and management system. It further explains that businesses are being increasingly asked to retrieve emails during litigation,  also companies need to comply with regulatory compliance requirements like Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA. It avers that according to Sarbanes-Oxley, public companies must keep all documents and communications for seven years following an audit. The penalties for destroying or altering a document can include fines up to $5 million and imprisonment for up to 20 years and hence, email is becoming Achilles Heel of document and records management, it adds.

The company avers that the key benefits to customers are:

• Capture all email messages including incoming, outgoing and internal emails
• Find and retrieve email related information within seconds through sophisticated search technology
• Produce reliable information for legal discovery and investigations very quickly
• Meet compliance requirements like Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA and many others
• Manage email life cycle from composition to deletion through proper policies
• Reduce email storage and management costs
• Formulate and enforce corporate email and security policies
• Excellent data protection through tamper-proof mechanism and encryption.