Gartner Magic Quadrant for Email Active-Archiving products

Gartner introduced last month a new Magic Quadrant for Email Active-Archiving products. These products should according to Gartner provide you with the following functionality:

• Capture and archive all email messages entering and leaving staff as unique indexed records
• Provide access to the archive via web client and email client
• Provide audit trail and secure storage
• Support multi tier storage strategy
• Offer personal data storage migration tools and temporary offline local storage options to eliminate the storage of email messages outside the control of the archive system
• Provide or integrate with a solid Electronic Records Management solution to manage the lifecycle of records including proper retention and destruction.

Gartner estimates that the worldwide email archiving market was $207 million in new software in 2006, an increase of 42.8% over 2005. The market is expected to grow to $1.0 billion by 2011. You can access the report courtesy of Symantec.

By Atle Skjekkeland.