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ZipLip Hits a Grand Slam with its Unified Archival offering
Covers regulatory compliance, email performance and content management in one archival offering
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – November 6, 2003
ZipLip Inc., a vendor of email management software, has redefined email archival by integrating multiple capabilities into one easy-to-manage platform. They include email compliance management, attachment management, and email content management.
"It's Broke, Fix It"
Today's email archival solutions all have original designs dating back five years or more, when archival policies were narrow in scope and easy to meet. However, with today's email volumes an order of magnitude or more higher, and archival laws expanding to cover practically all email traffic, these solutions are now ill-equipped to cope. The challenge is significant. One estimate from the marketplace would indicate that 12,000 corporate employees would generate enough email data in one year to equal the entire printed content at the U.S. Library of Congress. Clearly, a new architecture is required to scale to current and future demands, which set far higher performance benchmarks for addressing the following three issues.
The Email Compliance Issue
As regulations such as SEC 17a-4, HIPAA, Gramm-Leach-Bliley and Sarbanes-Oxley, extend their coverage, email archival is now required to expand retention from a narrow section of traffic to practically all areas of the enterprise. In addition, performance benchmarks have been raised significantly in the accessibility and searchability of the archive, especially in view of the recent fine of $8.25 million levied on Wall Street banks by the SEC for inadequate access to email archives.
The Email Attachment Management Issue
Email servers from Lotus and Microsoft run enterprise email. However, they are expensive and do not scale well. Consequently, as email volume has exploded, so has the cost of adding servers and storage, with declining returns. One way that corporations are coping with this cost spiral is to offload attachments to a different system. Since attachments can account for as much as 80% of email content, such offloading would greatly relieve the load on email servers, thus deferring any expensive capital outlay.
The Email Content Management Issue
As email becomes a part of mainstream business records, recent estimates indicate that as much as 80% or more of a corporation's business intelligence and memory are buried in email and attachments. The need to store, categorize, index, search and access this information is becoming more a strategic imperative than an option.
Other Legal Liabilities
Apart from compliance obligations, recent court decisions indicate momentum toward holding the owner of the data accountable, not only for the retention of email data but also for the cost of producing it during discovery. A recent landmark case (Z vs UBS) shifted the majority of the cost of email discovery to the owner of the data. The concept of limiting liability costs by limiting data retention no longer appears tenable.
ZipLip's Integrated Solution
ZipLip offers an integrated solution to the above issues on a "Unified Archival" platform. Some highlights of the unified archival solution include:
ZipLip's Unified Archival is available as a software "appliance," starting from $15,000, or can be scaled upward to a clustered configuration for hundreds of thousands of accounts.
About ZipLip, Inc.
Founded in 1999, and based in Mountain View, California, ZipLip makes enterprise software for email management, offering email archival, attachment management, content management, and secure email and files on an integrated platform. Enterprise customers include Walgreens, ADP, Hancock, Furukawa, SRI, SI International, Reed-Elsevier, PNB, Delta Dental, and many others. More information is available at www.ziplip.net.