Archiving & retention

Manage Content Lifecycle And Storage

Thru archives your firm’s active content for disaster recovery and faster compliance with government regulations, e-discovery rules and records management procedures. Thru’s solution for archiving and retention strengthens information governance while optimizing storage by:

• Automating archival of email attachments from the desktop
• Uploading files from desktops and content management systems
• Designing and testing retention or legal hold rules and hierarchies
• Minimizing the storage of duplicate data
• Searching archives for e-discovery

BUSINESS Need

Rapidly changing regulations and increasing risk of data loss are pressuring firms to improve their archiving strategies. Internal controls are essential. Archives must serve as a reliable record for sensitive data and intellectual property, driving the need to actively archive content. Meanwhile, retention policies appear longer and need to accommodate dynamic legal hold requirements and unpredictable e-discovery requests.

The driving forces of retention and e-discovery are putting a strain on storage capacity. Organizations must optimize storage resources to accommodate legal and regulatory activities. Firms are urgently trying to get a handle on scattered information across email servers, local PST files and content management systems.

IT Challenge

It’s typical to archive data from primary email server storage to long term storage devices. However, moving data in bulk across the network can consume significant bandwidth and increase downtime.

Manual implementation of retention schedules and purge processes is time-consuming. Identifying and locating information to comply with records management policies or fulfill e-discovery requests is daunting when files are not stored centrally.

Solution

Explore Thru Server and the Thru Secure Communication Network™ (SCN) brand of managed services to see how you can optimize storage resources and accelerate compliance.