Enterprise Archiving Innovator’s New Offering Protects, Organizes and Quickly Retrieves Social Media Data for e-Discovery, Regulatory Compliance and Other Applications

Bossier City, La. – April 30, 2013 – Adding to its innovative enterprise archiving product lineup, ArcMail Technology, Inc. today launched ArcMail SocialTM, the first archiving solution of its kind designed to address the information governance requirements for data that is exchanged across an organization’s social sphere.

Now available, ArcMail Social gives businesses an effective and convenient way to protect, organize and quickly retrieve social media data for e-Discovery purposes and to meet important government and industry regulatory compliance requirements.

“With the emergence of Facebook, Twitter and other social platforms as powerful collaboration and customer engagement tools, new enterprise archiving rules are starting to take shape,” said Rory Welch, ArcMail CEO. “Now, more than ever, businesses are being held accountable for what appears in their social streams. It’s become clear that they must take steps to ensure that all essential data – even unstructured data – is properly archived, managed and maintained.”

Available as an add-on module for any ArcMail Defender archiving solution – from the company’s on-premise, to its cloud storage gateway, hybrid and virtualized offerings – ArcMail Social is designed to grab everything of significance across the social networks that make up a business, from comments and likes, to posts and more. The solution captures data from the various social platforms and integrates it into archived files for access at a moment’s notice.

The archived social data also becomes exportable, meaning an IT administrator can select files, place “holds” on them and export the selected data as needed. In addition, searches can be performed by type of social platform to help users find what they need, when they need it.

Early Users Like the All-in-One Approach To Archiving that ArcMail Offers

Doug Arnold, IT supervisor for Tipp City, Ohio, has test driven ArcMail Social and says that the product is fulfilling an important need for the city’s IT department.

“ArcMail solved our requirements to archive social media posts within the same system we use to archive email. This provided an ‘all in one’ solution, rather than a separate appliance or service, reducing costs and saving labor time as well,” said Arnold. “I find the search capabilities of the device to be exceptional. The logging of our social media content is seamless and provides necessary compliance. In addition, installation was simple and support is phenomenal.”

Built from the Ground Up By ArcMail

Like all ArcMail solutions, ArcMail Social is easy to deploy, maintain and manage. Because it was built by ArcMail from the ground up, customers will only need to deal with ArcMail’s archiving experts – and no third-party vendors – whenever advice or support is needed.

The new offering is the latest in a series of innovative products from ArcMail that demonstrate the company’s industry leadership. Recent product announcements include the ArcMail Guardian™, for reliable, secure and scalable Google Apps™ email archiving; ArcMail Virtual Defender for virtualized environments; and archiving appliances for Salesforce.com™ Chatter™ and Microsoft SharePoint™. The company also offers the ArcMail Defender Cloud / Storage Gateway, a new breed of hybrid gateway technology that enables businesses to designate the files they want securely available at their fingertips at breakneck speeds, while also taking advantage of the datacenter cost savings that cloud storage allows.

Now available, ArcMail Social is offered through ArcMail resellers across North America.

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About ArcMail Technology
ArcMail is a world-class trusted provider of scalable solutions that address multiple business issues through best-in-class archiving technologies and services. For more information, visit www.arcmail.com or call 318-841-1151.

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Archiving Pioneer Addresses Explosive Growth of Virtual Computing with Virtual Archiving Appliance for e-Discovery, Compliance and Data Protection and Retention Applications

Bossier City, La. – February 27, 2013 – Adding to its comprehensive enterprise information archiving (EIA) product lineup, ArcMail Technology, Inc. today announced ArcMail Defender VM, a virtual archiving appliance designed from the ground up for virtualized computing environments.

Now available, ArcMail Defender VM protects and organizes an organization’s most valuable data assets while ensuring instant access to information residing in virtual environments – from hardware, to software and the network.

“The explosive growth of virtualized computing has placed new demands on organizations to change the way they approach archiving, ” said Rory Welch, CEO of ArcMail.  “With the Defender VM, businesses can ensure that their archiving strategy is on pace with their virtualization initiatives, fueling further efficiency in the datacenter -- while also gaining the peace of mind that their valuable data assets are always protected and within easy reach.”

According to industry data, as of 2012 server virtualization was hitting a penetration rate of up to 50 percent as businesses worldwide sought to take advantage of the cost and efficiency savings if offers.  Small and midsize organizations, as well as larger businesses -- across every sector of industry -- are now making use of the technology.

Built with Flexibility and Scale in Mind

The new offering provides all the power, features and proven capabilities of ArcMail’s existing Defender product line. Built to integrate easily and securely with almost any email server and the most popular collaboration platforms, Defender VM offers comprehensive, enterprise-class archiving and search to support regulatory compliance, e-Discovery and data protection and retention requirements.

Supported data sources include Microsoft Exchange, Office 365, Google Apps ^TM email, SharePoint ^TM files, Salesforce ^TM Chatter ^TM, Novell GroupWise^® and more.

“At ArcMail, we understand that customers’ archiving needs evolve, and that they most likely extend beyond a single email platform and encompass multiple data sources – from social media and email to collaboration platforms such as SharePoint,” said Welch.  “The Defender VM was designed with this idea in mind.”

With Defender VM, all search data is stored on the virtual appliance for safe, fast and convenient access. Archived data is maintained on the customer’s destination of choice, whether it’s a VM instance, on local storage, such as a storage area network (SAN) or network- attached storage (NAS), or in a public or private cloud.

Built for scale and flexibility, the Defender VM also allows organizations to increase their archived storage – and change the location of that storage -- as needed.  And if at any time the storage goes offline, the Defender VM is designed so that the archived data will be kept safely in the VM instance until online operation is restored.

Defender VM also expertly addresses security concerns: all archived data is encrypted and can only be un-encrypted by the Defender VM instance, allowing the utmost in data protection for even the most highly regulated industries.

ArcMail Continues to Keep Pace with Key Market Trends

ArcMail continues to demonstrate its industry leadership by capitalizing on key market trends with innovative products including an archiving solution for Microsoft SharePoint™; the ArcMail Guardian™, for reliable, secure and scalable Google Apps™ email archiving; and an archiving appliance for Salesforce.com™ Chatter™, the real-time enterprise collaboration platform. The company also offers the ArcMail Defender Cloud Storage Gateway, a new breed of gateway technology that enables businesses to designate the files they want securely available at their fingertips at breakneck speeds, while also taking advantage of the datacenter cost savings that cloud storage allows.

Now available, Defender VM is offered in configurations ranging from 2-20 terabytes of archived storage, and is designed to be easy to install, deploy and maintain in a virtualized environment.

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ArcMail is a world-class trusted provider of scalable solutions that address multiple business issues through best-in-class archiving technologies and services. For more information, visit www.arcmail.com or call 318-841-1151.

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Bossier City, La. – January 7, 2013 – Building upon its history of innovation, ArcMail Technology, Inc. today announced it has been recognized as a “Vendor to Watch” in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Information Archiving (EIA), published in December 2012.

According to the report, written by Gartner’s Sheila Childs, Kenneth Chin, Debra Logan and Alan Dayley, “This market will continue to see strong growth, experiencing a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 15.8% through 2016, from a baseline of $1.58 billion in 2011.”

“The growth of the EIA market reflects the continuing importance placed on preserving and managing information and the risks and consequences that organizations face if they don’t have the right technology in place,” said Rory Welch, CEO of ArcMail.

"We are seeing a shift toward demand for archiving solutions being driven primarily as a means to meet regulatory compliance needs and save IT department costs – not to mention time and headaches," noted Welch. "For us, this recognition in the Magic Quadrant is significant, and signals that ArcMail is building market momentum as we demonstrate our dedication to meeting and exceeding our customers’ email compliance, data protection and rapid-fire information retrieval needs.”

EIA Shift to More Content Types Beyond Email

Gartner’s EIA Magic Quadrant states that “email is still the predominant content type being archived by EIA products with 68% of overall archiving revenue in 2011 resulting from email archiving product sales.”

However, it also notes that “the requirement for good retention, deletion and legal hold policy management goes beyond email content. Organizations that have successfully implemented email archiving have seen associated benefits in their ability to better organize their data, find information when they need it, produce it in response to a discovery request, and, as a side benefit, reduce the size of their primary and secondary storage environments. These organizations have come to realize that these benefits are extensible to content beyond email, and are looking to implement policies and technologies that can do the same for files and Microsoft SharePoint and other content.”

Innovation is Hallmark of ArcMail Product Strategy

ArcMail has capitalized on these market trends while staking a leadership claim in the information archiving market by launching a series of innovative products over the past several years including ArcMail Guardian, an email archiving solution for Google Apps™ email; ArcMail for SharePoint, an archiving solution for Microsoft SharePoint™; an archiving appliance for Salesforce.com™ Chatter™, the real-time enterprise collaboration platform; and ArcMail for Instant Messaging, a new IM archiving appliance that works with all the most popular IM platforms including Yahoo!^®, AOL Instant Messenger^® (AIM) and MSN^®.

The company also offers support for virtualized servers, along with the ArcMail Defender Cloud Storage Gateway, a new breed of gateway technology that enables businesses to designate the files they want securely available at their fingertips at breakneck speeds, while also taking advantage of the datacenter cost savings that cloud storage allows.

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About the Magic Quadrant

Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

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In business since 2005, RP PRO has seen its archiving business grow to more than 30 percent of its overall revenue since joining forces in 2007 with ArcMail, an award-winning provider of email archiving solutions.  RP PRO has strengthened its ArcMail solutions expertise through the years to the point that it was recently named a master distributor to support ArcMail resellers across the U.S.

“Archiving is critical to customers in markets such as education, government and finance – where protecting email data becomes an important legal and human resources issue,” says Rob Pagura, president and founder of RP PRO.

Beyond email archiving, customers in these markets are also in need of archiving to protect instant messaging data as well as content across Google Apps^TM email, Salesforce^TM, SharePoint^TM and other applications and platforms.

“ArcMail has come through for us with solutions in each of these areas to address our customers’ changing demands,” says Pagura. “The ease of installation of the ArcMail products, and the company’s willingness to work closely with our customers to ensure a successful implementation, provides an added competitive edge and makes my job as a solution provider that much easier.”

RP PRO’s growth in the education market in particular has been significant in the past year, having recently installed ArcMail archiving solutions at a number of K-12 schools in Wisconsin, Georgia and Indiana, including moving customers from Exchange and FirstClass archiving solutions to ArcMail Guardian^TM, a Gmail^TM archiving appliance.

“Google Apps email is growing in popularity among K-12 schools, and, since its launch in 2011, ArcMail Guardian is already successfully established and proven in the market as a best-in-class archiving choice for customers looking to reap the cost savings and

convenience of Google Apps email, while also addressing business continuity and data protection issues,” says Pagura.

ArcMail Guardian integrates Google-hosted email with email from other corporate sources such as Microsoft Exchange, offering a centralized, hybrid approach to email archiving. It consists of an on-premise appliance that simultaneously retrieves, indexes and archives all email messages – whether they are hosted by traditional email servers or as part of cloud-based corporate Google accounts. The archiving appliance also gives organizations the added benefit of owning a copy of all email data, allowing easy migration of that data to new email platforms in the future.

In addition to the recently launched ArcMail for SharePoint^TM solution, ArcMail Guardian represents one of the newest additions to ArcMail’s Defender line of email archiving appliances, which range in capacity from 500GB to 32TB, with larger customized solutions also available. The Defender appliances feature a fault-tolerant open source design, multiple configuration options and archiving speeds of up to 500,000-plus messages per day.

VMware Represents Next Growth Phase in Archiving Market

What’s next in information archiving? Pagura says that virtualization of hardware, software and networks represents a sea change in enterprise computing, and is already impacting the archiving market in a big way.

As SMBs and customers across the government and education markets look to reduce their dependence on costly hardware and reduce administrative and energy costs, VMware offers a powerful and affordable alternative. And with virtual appliance solutions from ArcMail hitting the market to support archiving in VMware environments, customers – including colleges, universities and K-12 schools -- have added confidence in their ability to meet regulatory compliance requirements, while also ensuring that email data is protected at every turn. A college in Georgia recently turned to RP PRO and ArcMail for this very reason, says Pagura.

“Archiving in the VMware market is really on the upswing, and we see it as an important focus for our business in 2013. ArcMail’s ability to address this market affordably and effectively will go a long way toward winning us added business in the months and years ahead as our customers turn more and more to virtualized server environments,” Pagura says.

The beauty of working with ArcMail, he adds, is that the company is always one step ahead when it comes to product innovation and serving its partners and customers.

“We have a great partnership. ArcMail makes my company and my customers their top priority. I look forward to working with the ArcMail team for many years to come,” Pagura says.

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Bossier City, LA., August 21, 2012 – Adding to its enterprise information archiving market leadership, ArcMail Technology, Inc. today launched ArcMail for SharePoint^TM (ArcMail SP) to deliver best-in-class capabilities for archiving, searching and safeguarding business-critical data residing in Microsoft SharePoint environments. The new archiving solution provides organizations that rely upon SharePoint with advanced email compliance, data protection and rapid-fire information retrieval services.

“Research indicates that up to 70 percent of organizations worldwide depend on the power of SharePoint in some way, which means securing the data it contains has become increasingly essential for businesses today,” said Rory Welch, president of ArcMail. “Yet as the use of SharePoint expands over time, the associated data it generates grows at an exponential pace, and the process of storing, managing and searching through that data gets increasingly complex. That’s why we’ve dedicated significant resources to our new ArcMail for SharePoint solution – to provide our customers with an easy-to-use yet cost-effective way to manage and quickly retrieve SharePoint data.”

ArcMail SP is an all-in-one archiving solution that lets users search multiple, fully-indexed data sources simultaneously including SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange, Google Apps email (Gmail), IM and other messaging platforms. With ArcMail SP, all critical SharePoint files are securely stored and integrated into a single, centralized archive that simplifies search and takes the hassle out of enterprise information management.

ArcMail SP Saves Time, Reduces e-Discovery Headaches

ArcMail SP saves time and reduces search and e-Discovery headaches by restoring SharePoint documents to an authorized user’s inbox in seconds – with the click of a button.

The solution captures, archives and indexes all SharePoint documents, including associated links and files, and safeguards them in the award-winning ArcMail Defender or Cloud Gateway appliances.

ArcMail SP also meets important regulatory requirements by supporting all standard records management policies for content preservation, remediation and retention.

ArcMail SP works through the use of a server agent that listens to events on the customer's SharePoint™ server and sends the associated documents to the customer’s ArcMail Defender or Cloud Gateway appliance.  The appliance then archives and indexes the SharePoint data, making it searchable and available in seconds.

New SharePoint Capabilities Add to ArcMail’s Technology Innovation and Leadership

With its growing product lineup, ArcMail continues to look for cost-effective and innovative ways to address customers’ compliance and information archiving needs. In 2011, the company launched a series of game-changing products including an archiving appliance for Salesforce.com™ Chatter™, the real-time enterprise collaboration platform; ArcMail Guardian, an email archiving solution for Google Apps™ email; and ArcMail for Instant Messaging, a new IM archiving appliance that works with all the most popular IM platforms including Yahoo! ^®, AOL Instant Messenger^® (AIM) and MSN^®. 

The company also recently introduced the ArcMail Defender Cloud Storage Gateway, a new breed of gateway technology that gives business secure storage and instant file retrieval, while also providing the datacenter cost savings that cloud storage allows.

The new ArcMail for SharePoint archiving solution is now available. For more information, visit http://arcmail.com/our-products/arcmail-for-sharepoint/, or follow ArcMail on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

About ArcMail Technology

ArcMail is a world-class trusted provider of scalable solutions that address multiple business issues through best-in-class archiving technologies and services. For more information, visit www.arcmail.com or call 318-841-1151.

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CEO of WaLa! to Discuss New Approaches to Bringing Semantic-Based Big Data Search to the Masses, Leveraging Multiple Data Types and Multiple Data Sources

Bossier City, LA., May 14, 2012 – WaLa!, a big data search and analytics platform provider, today announced that its CEO Rory Welch has been selected to speak at Enterprise Search Summit 2012, to be held May 15-16 at the Hilton New York in New York City. Welch’s presentation, “Calming the Chaos of Big Data,” is included in the session titled, “Minimizing the Problems of Big Data,” which is scheduled for Tuesday, May 15 at 11:15 a.m.  WaLa! will also be previewing its soon-to-be-launched big data solutions at the conference in booth #23.

During his discussion, Welch will focus on a critical challenge facing enterprises today: the need to harness big data and turn it into useful information. As an expert in this area, Welch will offer his insight into emerging semantic search technologies that are enabling employees at every level of the organization to take control of big data with real-time capabilities that span multiple data types and multiple data sources.

“To truly make a competitive difference, big data search cannot be confined to the big data scientist. The most effective big data tools will be designed for use by customers, stakeholders and employees at every level – not just an elite group of specialists,” Welch said.

“According to a recently released study, less than one third of all companies turn their big data into usable information that can potentially help their business, while the rest of the data is just taking up space on storage servers,” he added. “This means that the companies that have already started putting big data management and analytics systems in place to utilize their data for business intelligence are the ones that will gain the competitive advantages in their industries moving forward.”

WaLa! is in position to help its customers achieve these goals with a new semantic-based big data platform that is set to launch this Fall. The platform is designed to make real-time business intelligence instantly accessible at every level of the organization, enabling big data resources to have a more far-reaching impact.

In developing its technology platform, WaLa! is drawing upon the search, storage and archiving expertise of its ArcMail subsidiary, which pioneered the enterprise information and email archiving appliance market in 2005. ArcMail serves business customers across North America – in markets such as government, education, insurance and banking – with cost-effective and innovative technology solutions that address critical regulatory compliance and data protection needs.

For additional Enterprise Search Summit 2012 information and conference registration, visit http://www.enterprisesearchsummit.com/Spring2012/.

About WaLa!

WaLa! is dedicated to empowering organizations across North America to take full advantage of the valuable big data resources available to them. Based in Bossier City, La., the company is leading the drive to provide innovative data search, analysis and management tools that efficiently and cost-effectively address the ever-growing volume of data sources and data types that make up today’s IT ecosystems.

For more information on WaLa! or Rory Welch, visit the WaLa! blog.  Follow ArcMail on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

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Enterprise Information Archiving Leader Marks Office Expansion to Bossier City, La. with Ribbon Cutting Ceremony, Focuses on Harnessing Big Data to Create Actionable Intelligence

Bossier City, LA., April 30, 2012 – WaLa!, a leader in enterprise information archiving, today announced it has established its new corporate headquarters at the state-of-the-art Cyber Innovation Center (CIC), which is the anchor for the 3,000-acre National Cyber Research Park (NCRP) in Bossier City, La.

Formerly based in Shreveport, La., the company marked the news this month with a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by local dignitaries including Bossier City Mayor Lorenz Walker and Bossier City Chamber of Commerce 2012 Chairman Kara Lowrie.

WaLa! is the parent company of ArcMail Technology, Inc., which pioneered the email and enterprise information archiving appliance market in 2005 and commands a rapidly growing customer base across North America. Rory Welch, President and CEO of both WaLa! and ArcMail, headlined the event and addressed the importance of the CIC as a catalyst for growth in the region.

“We’re extremely proud to be a part of the Cyber Innovation Center and play a role in driving further business growth across Northwest Louisiana,” said Welch. “From a talented employee base, to excellent quality of life and incomparable business resources, Bossier City and the CIC combine to offer just what a technology innovator such as WaLa! needs to thrive and prosper.”

As WaLa!’s “big data” technology platform hits the market in the year ahead, the company is set to change the way searches are handled across extremely large data sets, Welch said. “The question is no longer, how much data do you have, but how quickly can you search and analyze that data to create actionable intelligence. We can’t think of a better place than the CIC to further develop our leadership as this market takes off in 2012 and into the future,” he said.

“We are excited to welcome WaLa! to the NCRP. WaLa!’s focus on technology makes it a perfect fit for the NCRP.  We look forward to seeing this company grow within the Bossier Parish and Northwest Louisiana communities,” states Craig Spohn, Cyber Innovation Center Executive Director.

The Cyber Innovation Center is a public/private initiative whose mission is to support research, educational and technological advancement for the cyber mission and to foster collaborative and strategic alliances between governmental agencies, private industry and academic institutions.

Those participating in the ribbon-cutting ceremony included, from left to right, Kara Lowrie, 2012 Chairman of the Bossier City Chamber of Commerce; Rory Welch, CEO of WaLa! and its ArcMail subsidiary; Russ Vernon, Chairman of the Board of WaLa!; Lorenz Walker, Mayor of Bossier City; and Craig Spohn, Cyber Innovation Center Executive Director.

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CEO of WaLa! to Discuss Market Need to Harness Big Data and Turn It Into Useful Enterprise Information

Shreveport, LA., Feb. 28, 2012 – WaLa! today announced that CEO Rory Welch has been selected to speak at the Southeast Venture Conference (SEVC), to be held Feb. 29 – Mar. 1 at the Ritz Carlton in Tysons Corner, Va.

WaLa! is the parent company of ArcMail Technology, Inc., a pioneer and leader in enterprise information archiving, and Welch serves as CEO of both companies.

Welch’s presentation to investors will focus on a critical challenge facing enterprises today – the need to harness big data and turn it into useful information –  and how WaLa! is enabling companies to take control with high-speed, multi-platform search capabilities spanning multiple data types.

“According to a recently released study, less than one third of all companies turn their big data into usable information that can potentially help their business, while the rest of the data is just taking up space on storage servers,” Welch said. “That means that companies which are ready to put big data management systems and analysts in place to start utilizing their data for business intelligence are the ones that will gain the competitive advantages in their industries moving forward.”

At the conference, Welch will discuss WaLa!’s big data search value proposition, which is to instantly deliver relevant information that can be immediately used and consumed by  customers, employees and other stakeholders.

The Sixth Annual Southeast Venture Conference will feature market-relevant investor and executive panels, exclusive networking opportunities, featured speakers and dozens of the region's top private technology firms presenting to a national audience of venture capitalists, investment bankers and private equity investors. The event, which will be live-tweeted by SEVC (Twitter handle @SE_Venture) under the hashtag #SEVC12, will highlight both early and later stage investment opportunities from throughout the southeast and mid-Atlantic regions.

For additional SEVC information and conference registration, visit: http://www.seventure.org.

For more information on ArcMail, visit www.arcmail.com. For more information on WaLa!, visit the company’s blog at http://walasolutions.com/blog/tag/information-archiving/.  Follow ArcMail on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

About Southeast Venture Conference 2012
The mission of the SEVC is to help support the innovation and entrepreneurial activity of emerging high growth technology companies and the resulting economic growth in the greater Southeast and Mid-Atlantic regions. As part of that goal, the SEVC provides a key forum for relationship building between the investment and innovation technology communities. The 2012 SEVC is February 29 – March 1 at the Ritz-Carlton in Tysons Corner, Virginia. SEVC is presented by TechMedia, a media organization that produces innovation-oriented events connecting and educating the technology, entrepreneurial and investment communities throughout the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic regions.  For more information visit: www.seventure.org

About ArcMail Technology ArcMail is a world-class trusted provider of scalable solutions that address multiple business issues through best-in-class archiving technologies and services. For more information, visit www.arcmail.com or call 318-841-1151.

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Partner Dedication and Innovative Initiatives Lead to Selection of ArcMail CEO to Elite List of IT Channel Influencers

Shreveport, LA., Feb. 27, 2012 – Demonstrating its enterprise information archiving market leadership, ArcMail Technology, Inc. today announced that CEO Rory Welch has been named a Channel Chief by CRN Magazine, a leading IT channel publication. This is the second consecutive year that Welch was appointed to the elite Channel Chiefs list.

For the past nine years, Channel Chiefs have been chosen by the CRN editorial team based on channel experience, program innovations, channel-driven revenue and public support for the importance of IT channel sales.

ArcMail’s 100 percent channel focus and innovative strategic partner initiatives in 2011 were driving factors behind Welch’s selection. Throughout the year, he and his team worked to fuel greater depth and experience across the ArcMail partner base, helping resellers excel in key vertical markets, such as government and education, where growing demand for cost-effective information archiving exists. In addition, Welch served as an industry thought leader and worked diligently toward helping ArcMail’s resellers address and understand customers’ email compliance, data protection and rapid-fire information retrieval needs.

“It is a tremendous honor to receive this recognition once again from CRN,” said Welch. “In 2011, we strove to help our VARs achieve greater success and profitability by first and foremost providing them with the best and most innovative information archiving solutions available. We also sought to ensure they had access to the most advanced product knowledge and training, and to a greater array of sales and marketing resources to enhance their effectiveness in the field.”

Selected by CRN's editorial staff, the 2012 Channel Chiefs list is featured in the February issue of CRN Magazine and is available online at www.crn.com. Rory Welch’s Channel Chiefs listing can be found online at http://www.crn.com/channel-chiefs/cc2012-details.htm?c=16.

Information Archiving Innovator Rewards Growing Base of Social Media Followers and Announces February Twitter Contest

Shreveport, La. – Feb. 24, 2012 – Rewarding its social media followers while underscoring its enterprise information archiving value proposition, ArcMail Technology, Inc. today announced the winner of its January “Get It Faster” Twitter contest and at the same time launched a new February competition.

Nick Kuchinski of Virtual Graffiti, Inc., a network security and IT solutions provider, was selected for his winning entry for the January contest, which called for ArcMail’s Twitter followers to tweet the name of any prize valued at up to $50 that would help them achieve their New Year’s resolutions. Kuchinski tweeted, “I just entered @ArcMail's #getitfaster contest to win a Bluetooth Hands Free Car Kit to avoid those distracted driving tickets!”  For his creativity, Kuchinski was presented with a $50 gift card for the Bluetooth hands free car kit of his choice.

The February contest, now underway, features a Valentine’s Day theme and extends through Feb. 29. To enter, users must log in via the ArcMail Twitter contest page, follow ArcMail's Twitter account, and then explain in a 140-character tweet their opinion of the most pathetic way to spend Valentine’s Day. The most comical entry will win.

The ArcMail “Get it Faster” contests help participants find the prizes they want quickly, and emphasize the company’s capabilities for helping business customers find archived files and attachments in seconds. The contests are slated to run throughout the year – each boasting a different theme and prizes that are defined by those who enter.  Winners are announced on ArcMail's blog and Twitter page immediately after each contest ends. The February winner will be revealed on March 1.

According to Linda Hartman, Vice President of Marketing for ArcMail, the purpose of the contests is to drive awareness of the ArcMail brand across social media platforms and increase the company’s business-focused follower base.

“What makes ‘Get It Faster’ stand out is its creativity and simple reinforcement of ArcMail's brand messaging, and the different theme each month keeps participants engaged and coming back for more,” said Hartman. “We congratulate Nick on his win and look forward to announcing our February contest winner as well.”

Contest Supports ArcMail Focus on Innovation in Information Archiving

Whether through its social media strategies or its archiving solutions, ArcMail continues to look for innovative ways to serve its customers. In 2011, the company launched a series of game-changing products including an archiving appliance for Salesforce.com™ Chatter™, the real-time enterprise collaboration platform; ArcMail Guardian, an email archiving solution for Google Apps™ email; and ArcMail for Instant Messaging, a new IM archiving appliance that works with all the most popular IM platforms including Yahoo! ^®, AOL Instant Messenger^® (AIM) and MSN^®.

In November 2011, the company introduced the ArcMail Defender Cloud Storage Gateway, a new breed of gateway technology that enables businesses to designate the files they want securely at breakneck speeds, while also taking advantage of the datacenter cost savings that cloud storage allows.

For more information, follow ArcMail on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

About ArcMail Technology

ArcMail is a world-class trusted provider of scalable solutions that address multiple business issues through best-in-class archiving technologies and services. For more information, visit www.arcmail.com or call 318-841-1151.

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Information Archiving Leader Receives High Marks Across Product and Company Categories as Report Indicates That Adoption of Email Archiving Is Increasing at a Rapid Pace

Shreveport, La. – Feb. 1, 2012 – ArcMail Technology, Inc. today announced it has been recognized as an innovator in Info-Tech Research Group’s "Email Archiving Vendor Landscape” report. As one of only two email archiving vendors to receive this accolade, ArcMail also earned high marks for the usability, affordability and architecture of its products as well as its overall strategy and channel program.

Info-Tech Research Group Vendor Landscape reports recognize outstanding vendors in the technology marketplace.  Assessing vendors by the strength of their offering and their strategy for the enterprise, Info-Tech Research Group Vendor Landscapes pay tribute to the contribution of exceptional vendors in a particular category.

The key takeaway from this report is the importance of preserving email history and the risks and consequences that organizations face if they don’t have the right technology in place. The report stated, “Organizations seeking a cost-effective solution that integrates with all major email platforms should look towards ArcMail Defender, an appliance platform that is quick and easy to deploy.”

According to the IT analyst firm, adoption of email archiving is increasing at a rapid pace: 58 percent of organizations surveyed currently already have an email archiving solution in place, while another 27 percent are planning to deploy within the next 18 months.

"The Vendor Landscape report highlights several important trends including the shift toward demand for email archiving solutions being driven primarily as a means to meet regulatory compliance needs and save the IT department time and grief," noted Rory Welch, CEO of ArcMail. "ArcMail remains dedicated to meeting and exceeding our customers’ email compliance, data protection and rapid-fire information retrieval needs, and we’re very pleased to receive this recognition, particularly in the area of innovation, which continues to be an ArcMail competitive advantage.”

Innovation is Hallmark of ArcMail Product Strategy

ArcMail has staked a leadership claim in the information archiving market by launching a series of innovative products over the past year including an archiving appliance for Salesforce.com™ Chatter™, the real-time enterprise collaboration platform; ArcMail Guardian, an email archiving solution for Google Apps™ email; and ArcMail for Instant Messaging, a new IM archiving appliance that works with all the most popular IM platforms including Yahoo!^®, AOL Instant Messenger^® (AIM) and MSN^®.

In November 2011, the company introduced the ArcMail Defender Cloud Storage Gateway, a new breed of gateway technology that enables businesses to designate the files they want securely available at their fingertips at breakneck speeds, while also taking advantage of the datacenter cost savings that cloud storage allows.

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About Info-Tech Research Group

With a paid membership of over 25,000 members worldwide, Info-Tech Research Group (www.infotech.com) is the global leader in providing tactical, practical Information Technology research and analysis. Info-Tech Research Group has a fourteen-year history of delivering quality research and is North America's fastest growing full-service IT analyst firm.

About ArcMail Technology

ArcMail is a world-class trusted provider of scalable solutions that address multiple business issues through best-in-class archiving technologies and services. For more information, visit www.arcmail.com or call 318-841-1151.

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Information Archiving Innovator Asks Twitter Followers to Get Creative and Define Their Own Prizes in Contest that Delivers Fast Rewards, Reinforces Company’s Brand Message

Shreveport, La. – Jan. 17, 2012 – Seeking to expand its social media presence while underscoring its enterprise information archiving value proposition, ArcMail Technology, Inc. today announced a new Twitter contest called “Get It Faster.”

In January, the company launched the first “Get It Faster” contest in a series of competitions that ArcMail will run throughout the year – each boasting a different theme and prizes that are defined by those who enter. Each “Get It Faster” contest begins on the first day of the month and extends through the last day of that month, with the January contest now underway and the February contest slated to begin soon.

The current contest theme revolves around New Year's resolutions. To enter, Twitter users must log in to Twitter through the contest page, follow ArcMail's Twitter account, and then explain in a 140-character tweet how the prize of their choice (valued at up to $50) will help them achieve their New Year's resolution.

According to Linda Hartman, Vice President of Marketing for ArcMail, the contests align with the company’s core brand messaging, which is to help its business customers find archived files and attachments in seconds. Correspondingly, the “Get It Faster” contests help ArcMail followers find the prizes they want quickly.

“What makes ‘Get It Faster’ stand out is its creativity and simple reinforcement of ArcMail's brand messaging, and the different theme each month keeps participants engaged and coming back for more. It makes seemingly square technology more fun and engaging to a social audience,” said Hartman.

The target markets for the contests are broad and include ArcMail customers and resellers; all IT professionals in enterprise, government, finance and other regulated industries in need of archiving for compliance management; as well as industry-relevant professionals and influencers who are active on Twitter.

Winners will be announced on ArcMail's blog and Twitter page immediately after each contest ends. The January winner will be revealed on February 1.

Contest Supports ArcMail Focus on Innovation in Information Archiving

Whether through its social media strategies or its archiving solutions, ArcMail continues to look for innovative ways to serve its customers. In 2012, the company launched a series of game-changing products including an archiving appliance for Salesforce.com™ Chatter™, the real-time enterprise collaboration platform; ArcMail Guardian, an email archiving solution for Google Apps™ email; and ArcMail for Instant Messaging, a new IM archiving appliance that works with all the most popular IM platforms including Yahoo!^®, AOL Instant Messenger^® (AIM) and MSN^®.

In November, the company introduced the ArcMail Defender Cloud Storage Gateway, a new breed of gateway technology that enables businesses to designate the files they want securely at breakneck speeds, while also taking advantage of the datacenter cost savings that cloud storage allows.

About ArcMail Technology

ArcMail is a world-class trusted provider of scalable solutions that address multiple business issues through best-in-class archiving technologies and services. For more information, visit www.arcmail.com or call 318-841-1151.

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Research Indicates That Financial Services Firms of All Sizes Are Vulnerable to Fines and Other Sanctions for Inadequate Recordkeeping

Shreveport, La. – Dec. 20, 2011 – Building on the success of its archiving solutions in the financial services sector, ArcMail Technology, Inc. today announced a new research report called “The Critical Importance of Archiving in the Financial Services Industry.”

Researched and written by industry expert Michael Osterman, president and CEO of Osterman Research, the report is being offered at no cost to those who register online to receive archiving whitepapers from ArcMail. It is filled with valuable takeaways for financial services firms as well as organizations in other markets, and provides three key steps that businesses can take to address compliance and retention obligations:

1) Every company, regardless of its size, must develop policies focused on the retention of its business records.

2) It is critical to deploy archiving technology that can satisfy content retention policies for email messages and their attachments, as well as potentially other types of content such as files, social media posts, instant messaging conversations and other data.

3) Choose an archiving system that can integrate with and satisfy other organizational requirements, such as making content available in a format that will satisfy regulators, external legal counsel and others.

Fines Exacted on Companies Failing to Retain Emails

The report comes on the heels of news earlier this month that a unit of Citigroup agreed to a $750,000 civil fine for not retaining millions of emails as required by securities industry rules, according to a settlement with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).

“Financial services firms that do not comply with the various federal and state requirements for content preservation can face serious consequences,” says Osterman. “And while most fines have focused on larger institutions, there are growing indications that smaller banks, credit unions, broker-dealers and others are just as vulnerable to fines and other sanctions for inadequate recordkeeping.”

The research concludes that archiving and retention for financial services organizations is of critical importance. Financial services firms must be vigilant to maintain adequate corporate governance practices and technologies in the context of records retention, adds Osterman.

ArcMail’s Universal Archiving Strategy Supports Financial Service Industry Requirements, Demonstrates Industry Leadership

The question facing financial services firms today is no longer whether to retain data, but how much to retain and how to go about getting the job done right, says Rory Welch, CEO of ArcMail.

“Given the likelihood that retention obligations will become more stringent in the future, ArcMail is building upon its market leadership with universal archiving solutions that securely and cost-effectively address a full spectrum of compliance and data retention requirements,” says Welch. “At the same time, our solutions take into account the many new communication and messaging technologies that have emerged – from social media conversations to instant messaging and more – to ensure that a comprehensive range of data types are supported for our customers.”

ArcMail has launched a string of innovative products this year including an archiving appliance for Salesforce.com™ Chatter™, the real-time enterprise collaboration platform; ArcMail Guardian, an email archiving solution for Google Apps™ email; and ArcMail for Instant Messaging, a new IM archiving appliance that works with all the most popular IM platforms including Yahoo!^®, AOL Instant Messenger^® (AIM) and MSN^®.

Last month, the company introduced the ArcMail Defender Cloud Storage Gateway, a new breed of gateway technology that enables businesses to designate the files they want securely available at their fingertips at breakneck speeds, while also taking advantage of the datacenter cost savings that cloud storage allows.

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About Osterman Research

Osterman Research provides market research, industry analysis reports, white papers, webinars, surveys and related services for vendors and customers in the messaging, Web 2.0, social media, mobile, collaboration and information management sectors, as well as other markets.

About ArcMail Technology

ArcMail is a world-class trusted provider of scalable solutions that address multiple business issues through best-in-class archiving technologies and services. For more information, visit www.arcmail.com or call 318-841-1151.

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Leverages Existing Storage Infrastructures, Stores Source Files in Customer-Specified Locations Including Local SAN, Remote Data Centers, Private and Public Clouds

SHREVEPORT, La., Nov. 30., 2011 – ArcMail Technology, Inc. today announced the ArcMail Defender Cloud Storage Gateway, a new breed of gateway technology that combines unparalleled storage platform flexibility with instant search and retrieval and datacenter cost savings to give businesses an innovative, secure way to optimize their overall communications and data archiving initiatives.

Now available, the Defender Cloud Storage Gateway leverages an organization’s existing storage infrastructure to provide both cost savings and convenience. It indexes and stores up to 8TB of search data locally to deliver the industry’s fastest search and retrieval speeds. The remainder is stored as original source files on one or more remote storage platforms of the customer’s choosing – still easily searchable and within reach – giving them the opportunity to meet their specific requirements for scalability, security and vendor choice. ArcMail utilizes encryption on the source data to ensure highly secure remote storage.

This customer-configurable “near store” and “far store” approach allows IT departments to designate parameters for the files they want securely available at their fingertips at breakneck speeds, while also taking advantage of the datacenter cost savings that cloud storage allows.

The Defender Cloud Storage Gateway works with storage area networks (SAN), file systems and popular platforms such as Amazon S3, Rackspace Cloud Files, Windows^® Azure, OpenStack™ and PostgreSQL^®. Users can selectively search any combination of content types via the device including server-based email; hosted email such as Google Apps™, LiveOffice™ and Microsoft^® Office 365; Salesforce.com™ Chatter; instant messages; Adobe^® PDF files; and web pages.

Access to this complete spectrum of data across multiple storage platforms is available via a single easy-to-use ArcMail interface, making data discovery both simple and efficient for busy IT administrators, chief legal officers and other users.

“CIOs today often rely upon a number of storage platforms, but until now, an easy-to-deploy centralized archiving solution that supports all of them while also delivering instant search capabilities across a full range of content types has simply not been available,” said Rory Welch, CEO of ArcMail. “Especially as cloud storage use grows and data security risks increase, a heightened need exists for organizations to properly address data discovery and protection issues.”

With the Defender Cloud Storage Gateway, document files are automatically indexed and the resulting metadata and full text data is securely stored on the device behind the corporate firewall.

Adds Welch, “Not having immediate access to sensitive data – no matter where it resides – can be potentially damaging or costly. Yet many organizations today have failed to deploy effective archiving and retrieval solutions that take into account the entire scope of their storage initiatives.”

ArcMail Lets Customers Avoid Vendor Lock-In

The Defender Cloud Storage Gateway is designed to bring increased flexibility to enterprise information archiving. A key advantage of the solution is that archived source documents may be moved from one location to another as necessary to let customers take advantage of emerging technologies and to avoid vendor lock-in.

Universal Archiving Strategy Demonstrates Industry Leadership

The Defender Cloud Storage Gateway represents yet another step in ArcMail’s strategy to demonstrate market leadership through delivery of universal archiving solutions.  ArcMail has launched a string of innovative products this year including an archiving appliance for Salesforce.com Chatter, the real-time enterprise collaboration platform; ArcMail Guardian, an email archiving solution for Google Apps email; and ArcMail for Instant Messaging, a new IM archiving appliance that works with all the most popular IM platforms including Yahoo!^®, AOL Instant Messenger^® (AIM) and MSN^®.

The Defender Cloud Storage Gateway is now available for order through ArcMail resellers across North America. For more information, visit www.arcmail.com.

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ArcMail is a world-class trusted provider of scalable solutions that address multiple business issues through best-in-class archiving technologies and services. For more information, visit www.arcmail.com or call 318-841-1151.

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ArcMail’s New Archiving Solution Stores and Instantly Retrieves Yahoo!^®, AIM^®, MSN^® and Other Instant Messaging Data, Combines with Email Archiving to Provide Centralized Archiving Services

SHREVEPORT, La., Oct. 12, 2011 – Instant messaging (IM) solutions bring the benefits of rapid-fire communications, increased productivity and ease of collaboration to today’s organizations, but they can also deliver harmful business setbacks if proper measures are not put in place to safeguard and easily retrieve the critical corporate data that they generate over time.

As a provider of universal archiving solutions that address multiple business issues, ArcMail Technology, Inc. is focused on delivering new levels of compliance, data discovery and liability protection to the thousands of organizations that rely upon instant messaging. The company today announced ArcMail for Instant Messaging, a new IM archiving appliance that works with all the most popular IM platforms including Yahoo!, AOL Instant Messenger^® (AIM) and MSN.

“Instant messaging is clearly valued by businesses of all sizes today,” said Rory Welch, CEO of ArcMail. “But the proliferation of this communication medium also comes with an increased need to properly address regulatory compliance, e-discovery and liability protection issues. Not having access to this sensitive data over time can be potentially damaging or costly, yet many organizations today have failed to deploy effective archiving and retrieval solutions.”

ArcMail for Instant Messaging is specifically designed to encode, index and archive all instant messaging conversations. Archived conversations can be searched, located and retrieved in seconds. The solution works in conjunction with Defender, ArcMail ‘s award-winning email archiving appliance, to securely store all incoming and outgoing instant messaging and email data – including all associated links, files and attachments – in a single, centralized location. Access to that data is then available via a single easy-to-use interface, making data discovery both simple and efficient for busy IT administrators, chief legal officers and other users.

"Archiving instant messaging conversations is absolutely vital for any organization given the large proportion of content that flows through IM systems, and the legal and regulatory requirements to preserve business records in these communications," said Michael Osterman, principal at Osterman Research.  "Organizations of any size and in any industry should archive their IM conversations just as they should email and other content."

Adds Welch, “We’re pleased to build upon our industry leadership by addressing the data protection demands of the industry’s most popular communication platforms. Since many instant messaging solutions do not offer their own long-term archiving capabilities, businesses that make use of these platforms are in vital need of a way to secure their valuable data and communications, while also ensuring that critical compliance requirements are being met.”

Backed by ArcMail’s advanced hardware archiving technology, the new appliance is also designed to ensure that all internal communication stays internal – behind the corporate firewall, and safe from corruption by outside sources.

Important Step in ArcMail’s Universal Archiving Strategy

ArcMail for Instant Messaging represents yet another step in ArcMail’s strategy to provide a universal archiving solution, with offerings that span multiple document types including email, instant messaging, private social networking conversations and other data. The product follows the company’s recent launch of an archiving appliance for Salesforce.com™ Chatter, the real-time enterprise collaboration platform, as well as ArcMail Guardian, an email archiving solution for Google Apps™ email. Guardian integrates with ArcMail Defender to provide a single, centralized approach to email archiving, covering Google Apps email, Microsoft Exchange and other widely used email platforms.

Priced starting at $9,979, ArcMail for Instant Messaging comes bundled with an ArcMail Defender email archiving appliance and is now available for order through ArcMail resellers across North America.

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About ArcMail Technology

ArcMail is a world-class trusted provider of scalable solutions that address multiple business issues through best-in-class email technologies and services. For more information, visit www.arcmail.com or call 318-841-1151.

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Provides a Single, Centralized Approach to Archiving for Chatter, Google Apps™ Email, Exchange and Other Applications, While Delivering Vital Compliance, Data Discovery and Data Protection

SHREVEPORT, La., Sept. 21, 2011 -- ArcMail Technology, Inc., a provider of universal archiving solutions that address multiple business issues, today announced ArcMail for Salesforce Chatter, an archiving appliance that delivers new levels of compliance, data discovery and liability protection to the thousands of organizations that rely upon Chatter, the real-time enterprise collaboration platform from Salesforce.com.

ArcMail for Salesforce Chatter is the only archiving solution to integrate data from multiple messaging platforms including Google Apps email, Exchange and other email applications—and now, Chatter. The new solution works in conjunction with the award-winning ArcMail Defender archiving appliance to securely store all Chatter and email data in a single, centralized location. Access to that data is then available via a single easy-to-use interface, making data discovery both simple and efficient for busy IT administrators, chief legal officers and other users.

“We’re pleased to once again demonstrate our industry leadership by addressing the data protection demands of the industry’s most dominant software-as-a-service platform,” said Rory Welch, CEO of ArcMail. “Since Salesforce does not offer its own archiving capabilities, businesses using Chatter are in vital need of a way to secure their valuable private social network data and communications, while also ensuring that critical compliance requirements are being met.”

Specifically designed to encode, index and archive all Chatter conversations, the new solution allows users to quickly search and retrieve specific messages and attachments generated within unstructured Salesforce workflows.

“With ArcMail for Salesforce Chatter, archived conversations can be located and retrieved in seconds,” said Welch. “We understand that in business, time is money, and for most of our customers, instant search and retrieval is essential. At ArcMail, we pride ourselves in delivering one of the fastest search functionalities in the industry.”

Backed by ArcMail’s advanced hardware archiving technology, the new appliance is also designed to ensure that all internal Chatter communication stays internal – behind the corporate firewall, and safe from corruption by outside sources.

Important Step in ArcMail’s Universal Archiving Strategy

ArcMail for Salesforce Chatter represents yet another step in ArcMail’s strategy to provide a universal archiving solution, with offerings that span multiple document types including email, private social networking conversations and other data. The product follows the company’s recent launch of ArcMail Guardian, which integrates Google Apps-hosted email with email from other corporate sources such as Microsoft Exchange, offering a centralized, hybrid approach to email archiving.

Priced starting at $7399, ArcMail for Salesforce Chatter comes bundled with an ArcMail Defender email archiving appliance and is now available for order through ArcMail resellers across North America.

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About ArcMail Technology

ArcMail is a world-class trusted provider of scalable solutions that address multiple business issues through best-in-class email technologies and services. For more information, visit www.arcmail.com or call 318-841-1151.

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Email Archiving Leader’s Guardian™ Appliance Chosen Out of a Field of More Than 800 Technology Products

SHREVEPORT, La., Auguxt 30, 2011 -- ArcMail Technology, Inc., a provider of universal email archiving solutions that address multiple business issues, today announced that its new ArcMail Guardian archiving appliance has been named a KMWorld Trend Setting Product of 2011.

This year’s Trend Setting Awards competition consisted of more than 800 product entries. The nominations were assessed by KMWorld Magazine’s judging panel, which consisted of editorial colleagues, analysts, system integrators, vendors, line-of-business managers and end-user customers.

“We are pleased to add the ArcMail Guardian name to the elite list of Trend Setting Product award winners,” said Hugh McKellar, editor in chief of KMWorld Magazine.  “All products selected demonstrate clearly identifiable technology breakthroughs that serve the vendors’ full spectrum of constituencies, especially their customers, and the Guardian archiving solution, with its hybrid approach to Google Apps™ email archiving, is no exception.”

Introduced in June 2011, ArcMail Guardian integrates Google-hosted email with email from other corporate sources such as Microsoft Exchange, offering a centralized, hybrid approach to email archiving. Sold through ArcMail channel partners, it consists of an on-premise appliance that simultaneously retrieves, indexes and archives all email messages – whether they are hosted by traditional email servers or as part of cloud-based corporate Google accounts. The archiving appliance also gives organizations the added benefit of owning a copy of all email data, allowing easy migration of that data to new email platforms in the future.

“Guardian delivers a value proposition that is unlike any other in the archiving market, as it allows organizations to reap the cost savings and convenience of Google Apps email, while also addressing critical business continuity and data protection issues,” said Rory Welch, CEO, ArcMail. “We believe our innovative approach to archiving is worthy of considerable market attention, and we’re very pleased and honored that KMWorld has taken note of the value of the ArcMail Guardian solution by naming it a Trend Setting product for 2011.”

Guardian represents the newest addition to ArcMail’s Defender line of email archiving appliances, and sets the stage for other universal archiving solutions—spanning multiple document types—that the company plans to launch in the year ahead. With models ranging in capacity from 500GB to 32TB, with larger customized solutions also available, the Defender appliances feature a fault-tolerant open source design, multiple configuration options and archiving speeds of up to 500,000-plus messages per day.

The complete list of winners for the ninth annual Trend Setting Awards will be featured in the September 2011 print issue, and the September 1 online edition of KMWorld Magazine.

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About KMWorld
KMWorld (www.kmworld.com) is the leading information provider serving the Knowledge Management systems market and covers the latest in Content, Document and Knowledge Management, informing more than 45,000 subscribers about the components and processes - and subsequent success stories - that together offer solutions for improving business performance. KMWorld is a publishing unit of Information Today, Inc. (www.infotoday.com)

About ArcMail Technology

ArcMail is a world-class trusted provider of scalable solutions that address multiple business issues through best-in-class email technologies and services. For more information, visit www.arcmail.com or call 318-841-1151.

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Email Archiving Leader Adds IT Veteran Edward Dunn to Executive Team

SHREVEPORT, La., July 19, 2011 -- ArcMail Technology, Inc., a provider of universal email archiving solutions that address multiple business issues, today announced the appointment of Edward Dunn to Vice President of Sales for North America.  A seasoned information technology (IT) executive with 20 years of experience, Dunn has been a key member of the ArcMail management team for more than three years, with his latest role being Director of Sales Engineering.

In this new capacity, he will be responsible for all sales and tactical marketing activities including overseeing regional sales managers, account managers, channel sales programs, technical support and sales engineering.

“Eddie has already made a significant contribution to ArcMail, and we will continue to draw upon his extensive IT knowledge and experience to drive ArcMail’s ongoing success across North America,” said Rory Welch, CEO of ArcMail. “This is just the beginning of a very exciting journey for ArcMail, in which we will continue to provide the industry with thought leadership and innovation. Eddie’s leadership will be instrumental as we move into new markets and offer new solutions that span email as well as other document types.”

Dunn’s appointment follows ArcMail’s recent launch of its Google Apps™-focused ArcMail Guardian™ appliance. Guardian offers a centralized, hybrid approach to email archiving. Sold through ArcMail channel partners, it consists of an on-premise appliance that simultaneously retrieves, indexes and archives all email messages – whether they are hosted by traditional email servers or as part of cloud-based corporate Google accounts.

“Eddie and his team are actively working to capitalize on building momentum for the Guardian product across corporate and education markets where Gmail™ and Google Apps usage is prevalent, while setting the stage for the other universal archiving solutions that we plan to launch in the year ahead,” noted Welch.

Guardian represents the newest addition to ArcMail’s Defender line of email archiving appliances, which are sold worldwide and include models ranging in capacity from 500GB to 16TB, with larger customized solutions also available. The Defender appliances feature a fault-tolerant open source design, multiple configuration options and archiving speeds of up to 500,000-plus messages per day.

With a career that encompasses IT systems engineering, training and management, Dunn joined ArcMail after holding a variety of executive positions including CEO of Alpha Networks and Developers; senior systems engineer and managing partners for Integrated Network Solutions; and storage engineer for Dell Computers. At Dell, he led consulting engagements for Fortune 100 clients.

Dunn holds the MCSE (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer) certification and an MS in neuro-linguistic programming from the Dilts Learning Center at The University of California, Santa Cruz.

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ArcMail is a world-class trusted provider of scalable solutions that address multiple business issues through best-in-class email technologies and services. For more information, visit www.arcmail.com or call 318-841-1151.

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SHREVEPORT, La., June 27, 2011 -- Many organizations deploy cloud solutions for cost savings and convenience, but can experience critical business setbacks caused by cloud data losses and lack of reliability.  To ensure business continuity and data protection for Google Apps email, ArcMail Technology, Inc. today announced ArcMail Guardian, a new email archiving solution that integrates Google-hosted email with email from other corporate sources such as Microsoft Exchange.

Now available for order, ArcMail Guardian offers a hybrid approach to archiving that consists of an on-premise appliance that simultaneously retrieves, indexes and archives all email messages whether they are hosted by traditional email servers or as part of cloud-based corporate Google accounts. Guardian also gives organizations the added benefit of owning a copy of all email data, allowing easy migration of that data to new email platforms in the future.

“The combination of email protection and corporate ownership of the data allows us to eliminate the fear factors associated with corporate Gmail use,” says Rory Welch, CEO of ArcMail. “Guardian represents an ideal choice for any organization looking to reap the cost saving and convenience of Google Apps Email, while staying serious about business continuity and data protection. The solution also works with traditional email systems to provide corporations with a single, centralized approach to archiving.”

Today’s announcement marks a new milestone in ArcMail’s strategy to provide universal archiving that spans email as well as other document types. The company is planning other product announcements throughout the year to extend the reach of its solutions beyond email archiving.

Fast, Easy Search and Recovery

When the need arises to recover email messages or attachments, ArcMail Guardian delivers industry-leading search and recovery functionality to make it easy. Any authorized individual can locate emails and attachments, and then restore that data to any user’s mailbox. For quick search and recovery, meta-data and text data are extracted from all parts of each message, including header, body and attachments, making it easy to locate files using intuitive keywords.

“ArcMail’s hybrid approach has the potential to open up new markets for corporate Gmail use, and should appeal to those organizations that have significant regulatory obligations to preserve data, as well as those that place a high value on the archive and retrieval of corporate data using on-premises infrastructure,” says Michael Osterman, of Osterman Research, an analyst firm providing research and insight to organizations in the messaging and collaboration industry.  “For highly regulated firms, the loss of archived data is often worse than an email outage, since the consequences are so much greater.  ArcMail addresses this issue with its robust business continuity capabilities.”

Two-Appliance Solution Provides Mission-Critical Reliability

ArcMail’s Guardian product provides mission-critical reliability in a two-part solution consisting of a Gmail Gateway appliance used in conjunction with an ArcMail Defender appliance.  The Gmail Gateway routes all inbound, outbound and internal corporate Gmail messages and attachments to the ArcMail Defender archiving appliance.

To promote maximum reliability, all devices in the Guard­ian appliance are solid-state, even the disks. As a high-availability solution, Guardian keeps functioning even in the event of processor, memory or disk failure.

Guardian represents the newest addition to ArcMail’s Defender line of email archiving appliances, which are sold worldwide and include models ranging in capacity from 500GB to 13TB, with larger customized solutions also available. The Defender appliances feature a fault-tolerant open source design, multiple configuration options and archiving speeds of up to 500,000-plus messages per day.

Now available for order through ArcMail resellers across North America, ArcMail Guardian is priced starting at $10,399 for the bundled, two-appliance product.

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ArcMail is a world-class trusted provider of scalable solutions that address multiple business issues through best-in-class email technologies and services. For more information, visit www.arcmail.com or call 318-841-1151.

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Newly published white paper on email compliance rules now available for complimentary download

SHREVEPORT, La., June 1, 2011 -- ArcMail Technology, Inc., a leading provider of email archiving and email management appliances that address multiple business issues, today announced with the ePolicy Institute that it has published a timely white paper establishing best-practice email compliance guidelines for government and education.  The white paper is available as a complimentary download from http://arcmail.com/news-and-media/white-papers-download/?src=pgty.

The white paper, “Email Compliance Rules for Government and Education,” is a comprehensive guide for public sector decision makers including CIOs, legal/compliance officers, records managers, school administrators and agency directors who play a role in email management, e-discovery, email retention and email compliance.

The publication underscores the need to implement a strategic email management program that incorporates the “3 Es” of email compliance management: establishment of email and email retention policies, education of employees, and enforcement via proven-effective email archiving practices. This policy empowers government entities and educational institutions to successfully manage legal, security and regulatory compliance risks.

Recognized as a leader in email archiving and management, ArcMail has built momentum in the government market as municipalities and schools of all sizes recognize the benefits of email archiving for storing, retrieving, classifying and purging email to improve organizational efficiency and compliance practices.

Nearly 45 percent of ArcMail’s customer base is made up of public sector entities including schools and municipalities.

“We thought it was important to research and outline best practices within this category in order to give municipalities and schools – which represent a significant and growing percentage of our customer base – a strong strategic direction for archiving and managing their email,” says Rory Welch, CEO of ArcMail. “The public sector’s IT requirements are similar to private companies but they have to be more efficiently run, especially with reduced budgets.”

Highlights of the advice offered to public sector organizations in the white paper include:

• Form an email management team made up of your legal counsel, compliance officer, records manager, human resources manager and IT director.
• Know and adhere to the Amended Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
• Research and comply with the State Rules of Civil Procedure governing e-discovery and email retention in every state in which you operate or litigate lawsuits.
• Know and comply with the Open Record Laws of every state in which you operate or have employees or facilities.
• Assign your legal counsel the task of forming a litigation hold policy to halt the routine destruction of email records and other electronically stored information (ESI) once litigation is underway or legal claims are anticipated.
• Create an audit trail.
• Automate the archiving process to enhance productivity.

“The ArcMail Defender line of enterprise-class email archiving solutions makes it easier to satisfy open records requests and stay in compliance with a complicated tangle of regulations,” adds Welch. “In addition, it reduces the load on servers, clears out email inboxes and improves security for our public sector customers.”

Defender is sold worldwide and includes eight appliances ranging in capacity from 500GB to 16TB, with larger customized solutions also available. Featuring a fault-tolerant open source design, multiple configuration options and archiving speeds of up to 500,000-plus messages per day, the ArcMail Defender line is priced starting at $2,899.

For more information on ArcMail solutions for education, please visit http://arcmail.com/compliance-management/education/.  For more information on ArcMail’s government market solutions, visit http://arcmail.com/compliance-management/government/.

Resellers interested in learning more about becoming an ArcMail partner can find more details at http://www.arcmail.com/info-for-partners/.

About The ePolicy Institute
The ePolicy Institute is a training and consulting firm dedicated to helping employers limit email and Web risks, including litigation, through effective policies and training programs. Founder and Executive Director Nancy Flynn is the author of books including Handbook of Social Media (2011) and The e-Policy Handbook, and is an in-demand speaker, policy writer, and expert witness. For information, visit http://www.epolicyinstitute.com/ or call 614-451-3200.

About ArcMail Technology

ArcMail is a world-class trusted provider of scalable solutions that address multiple business issues through best-in-class email technologies and services. For more information, visit www.arcmail.com or call 318-841-1151.

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In the aftermath of the debilitating Amazon EC2 outage, it should be obvious to everyone that when it comes to cloud services, CIOs should conduct serious risk assessments comparing the cost of cloud outages with the cost of guarding against those outages. Not all services are business-critical, but each service deserves its own risk assessment to ensure that organizations properly expose the risks of moving to infrastructures beyond their direct control. Mission-critical services require stringent service level agreements with redundancy and failover attributes commensurate with the level of availability required by the service.

Email is one business-critical service that most organizations share in common. Best practices for organizations that are moving their email infrastructure to the cloud or that are outsourcing their email service in whole or in part include the following:

1. Ensure that email has a path to flow in the event of a loss-of-service event from your major provider.
2. Recognize that email backups alone are not an effective business continuity plan for most organizations.
3. Implement an email archive.
4. Ensure that your archive captures email in real-time from primary and secondary sources.
5. Ensure that your archive is implemented in a facility other than your principal email provider.
6. Ensure that the queues for your archiving infrastructure are highly available.
7. Ensure that your email archiving solution doesn’t reduce the effective availability of your overall email infrastructure.

To ensure business continuity in the face of cloud service outages, companies that are moving to cloud-based email solutions should also implement an on-premise email archive. In the grand scheme of things, an email archive is a relatively inexpensive way to buy a lot of business-continuity peace of mind.

http://advice.cio.com/norman_graham_of_arcmail/16069/don_t_let_cloud_outages_impact_your_business_critical_email_services

SHREVEPORT, La., April 14, 2011 – With budget discussions for the 2011-12 school year now underway, email archiving stands out as a technology tool that makes the grade as K-12 schools look for cost-effective ways to address rising regulatory demands and spiraling email storage requirements.

ArcMail Technology, Inc., a leading provider of email archiving and email management appliances that address multiple business issues, is building momentum in the education market as schools of all sizes recognize the benefits of email archiving for storing, retrieving, classifying and purging email to improve organizational efficiency and compliance practices.

“Schools have IT requirements just like any other organization, but they may face greater pressure to properly maintain and protect their email data due to unfortunate issues of the day, such as bullying and inappropriate content,” says Rory Welch, CEO of ArcMail. “ArcMail is seeing increased traction in this market as educational institutions -- both large and small --seek to put more robust email solutions in place.”

The Freedom of Information Act and open meeting laws create a demanding regulatory environment that can be challenging to navigate.  The ArcMail Defender product line was designed to provide schools with an effective yet affordable solution that addresses these challenges through compliance with all government regulations.

The ArcMail Defender solutions:

• Integrate with all major email clients and servers
• Encrypt emails for transmission to and from the Defender
• Require no software licensing fees for adding users
• Provide hands-off archiving that doesn’t require additional IT resources

Beyond compliance, schools are making use of email archiving to not only provide instant access to stored email data, but to also alleviate the storage and performance burden on their primary mail servers.

ArcMail Makes the Grade at Calcasieu Parish Public Schools

With more than 37,000 students, Calcasieu Parish School System is one of the larger school systems in the state of Louisiana, and is considered by many to be the model district for technology implementation. When Calcasieu administrators determined they needed to improve email storage and retention practices, and find ways to save storage costs and make email retrieval much more efficient, they turned to ArcMail.

Notes Chris Mace, a network specialist with Calcasieu Parish School System, “ArcMail was an easy choice for us – it offered both price and performance advantages, along with full compliance with government regulations. Our Defender unit installed in less than 20 minutes, is easy to manage, and has proven to be a valuable addition to our technology environment.”

The Defender is also deployed within a number of other U.S. education institutions including Hacienda La Puente Unified School District, in the City of Industry, Calif.; and Garden Grove Unified School District, in Garden Grove, Calif.

The ArcMail Defender line of enterprise-class email archiving solutions is sold worldwide and includes eight appliances ranging in capacity from 500GB to 16TB, with larger customized solutions also available. Featuring a fault-tolerant open source design, multiple configuration options and archiving speeds of up to 500,000-plus messages per day, the ArcMail Defender line is priced starting at $2,899.

For more information on ArcMail solutions for education, please visit http://arcmail.com/compliance-management/education/. Resellers interested in learning more about becoming an ArcMail partner can find more details at http://www.arcmail.com/info-for-partners/.

About ArcMail Technology

ArcMail is a world-class trusted provider of scalable solutions that address multiple business issues through best-in-class email technologies and services. For more information, visit www.arcmail.com or call 318-841-1151.

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ArcMail PR

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pjohns@arcmail.com

ArcMail Unveils Leasing Program to Address Greater SMB Demand for Email Archiving and Management Solutions

Email Archiving Leader Supports North American Channel by Facilitating Best-in-Class Technology Purchases

SHREVEPORT, La., March 15, 2011 -- ArcMail Technology, Inc., a leading provider of email archiving and email management appliances that address multiple business issues, today announced a new leasing program designed to drive greater demand for its product offerings across the broad small-to-midsize business (SMB) market.

Effective immediately, leasing options are available to cover up to 100 percent of all ArcMail appliances, software and maintenance contracts purchased through the company’s authorized resellers. The program allows SMBs and other organizations to take immediate advantage of ArcMail email archiving solutions to ensure business continuity, improve server performance and gain valuable legal protection through best-practice data management.

“Studies show that most organizations want to finance their technology investments over time – simply because it makes good business sense. Even for customers that can afford to pay cash, leasing provides many advantages, from tax relief and preservation of credit lines, to better cash flow and the ability to stay ahead of the technology curve,” says Rory Welch, CEO of ArcMail.

“We’re confident that our channel partners will not only be able to drive more business as a result of the leasing program, but also close sales faster,” adds Welch. “It’s our experience that customers are more likely to purchase when budget management is less of a concern, and when ease of financing is offered during the sale.”

Provided in partnership with Dimension Funding, LLC, the leasing program offers financing options for the entire ArcMail Defender line of enterprise-class email archiving solutions, which includes eight appliances ranging in capacity from 500GB to 16TB, with larger customized solutions also available. Featuring multiple configuration options and archiving speeds of up to 150,000-plus messages per day, the ArcMail Defender line is priced starting at $2,899 and is ideal for use in a wide range of markets including education, banking and local government.

Lease terms range from 24 to 72 months, and end of term options offer the flexibility to walk away from the equipment, purchase for nominal or fair market value, extend the current lease, or upgrade.

The ArcMail leasing program comes into play just after President Obama signed into law the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 (on Dec. 17, 2010). The legislation provides 100 percent bonus depreciation for investments placed in service after Sept. 8, 2010, and through Dec. 31, 2011. Under the new bonus depreciation schedule, businesses may immediately write off 100 percent of the cost of depreciable property (including technology) acquired in the same calendar year, provided the equipment is used in the U.S.

More information on the ArcMail leasing program can be found online at
http://arcmail.com/leasing-program/. Resellers interested in learning more about becoming an ArcMail partner can find more details at http://www.arcmail.com/info-for-partners/.

About ArcMail Technology

ArcMail is a world-class trusted provider of scalable solutions that address multiple business issues through best-in-class email technologies and services. For more information, visit www.arcmail.com or call 318-841-1151.

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Rory Welch Earns Recognition for Renewing 100 Percent Channel Strategy, Introducing Innovative Partner Program Initiatives    

Shreveport, LA., February 22, 2011 – ArcMail Technology, Inc., a leading provider of email archiving and email management appliances that address multiple business issues, today announced that its CEO, Rory Welch, has been named a Channel Chief by Everything Channel’s CRN. Channel Chiefs are leaders in creating effective channel programs for solution providers.  They consistently defend, promote and execute effective channel partner programs and strategies.

Welch was selected following a year in which ArcMail completely re-structured its value-added reseller (VAR) program, renewed its 100 percent channel focus and added greater depth and experience to its partner base.  He was the driving force behind the establishment of the ArcMail Sales & Training University, which provides resellers with the training, knowledge, resources and support required to achieve long-term success.

This year’s Channel Chiefs were chosen based by Everything Channel editorial on criteria including policy and program innovations made during the past year, the amount of revenue their company generates through partners, their willingness to speak out publicly on behalf of the channel, and the number of years they have dedicated to channel activities.

“It is a tremendous honor to receive this recognition from Everything Channel,” said Welch. “In 2010, ArcMail became more focused on the channel than ever before, with programs that helped our VARs achieve greater success and profitability through improved product knowledge and training, stronger focus on key vertical markets, and more sales and marketing resources to enhance their effectiveness in the field.”

“Being named a Channel Chief is one of the most prestigious honors in the IT industry.  This year’s Channel Chiefs offer tremendous insight into the who’s who of the Channel,” said Kelley Damore, VP, Editorial Director, Everything Channel.  “Top channel executives consistently ensure that the Channel’s voice is heard when strategic decisions are being made and continually nurture mutually profitable relationships.  We applaud this year’s Channel Chiefs for their successful partner programs and strategies.”

Welch’s Channel Chiefs listing can be viewed on CRN at http://www.crn.com/channel-chiefs/cc2011-details.htm?c=9.

For additional information on the CRN Channel Chief list, visit www.channelweb.com.  The Channel Chief list was published in the February 21, 2011 issue.

About ArcMail Technology

ArcMail is a world-class trusted provider of scalable solutions that address multiple business issues through best-in-class email technologies and services. The ArcMail Defender line of enterprise-class email archiving solutions is sold worldwide and includes eight appliances ranging in capacity from 500GB to 16TB, with larger customized solutions also available. For more information, visit www.arcmail.com or call 318-841-1151.

About Everything Channel

Everything Channel is the premier provider of IT channel-focused events, media, research, consulting, and sales and marketing services. With over 30 years of experience and engagement, Everything Channel has the unmatched channel expertise to execute integrated solutions for technology executives managing partner recruitment, enablement and go-to-market strategy in order to accelerate technology sales. Everything Channel is a UBM company. To learn more about Everything Channel, visit us at http://www.everythingchannel.com.

About United Business Media Limited

UBM (UBM.L) focuses on two principal activities: worldwide information distribution, targeting and monitoring; and, the development and monetisation of B2B communities and markets. UBM's businesses inform markets and serve professional commercial communities -- from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewelry traders, from farmers to pharmacists -- with integrated events, online, print and business information products. Our 6,500 staff in more than 30 countries are organised into specialist teams that serve these communities, bringing buyers and sellers together, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently. For more information, go to www.ubm.com.

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Three years ago, during an information management conference that Branford, Conn., IT Director Peter Hugret attended, he listened to speakers who shared “war stories” about private-sector businesses being court ordered to produce documents under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which requires publicly traded companies to improve record keeping pursuant to corporate disclosures.

Upon hearing those stories, Hugret thought to himself, “There’s going to come a day when [saving documents] is going to be necessary. Right now, legally we don’t have to hold onto documents forever unless we know that it’s going to be a document that the courts are going to look for. Then we have an individual responsibility to secure that document.”

But that’s changing in many states and cities. While the Freedom of Information Act has standardized open records regulation at the federal level of government, state and local governments and agencies are subject to various open records laws, some of which are stringent.

This evolution of data retention requirements is encouraging municipalities like Branford to modernize their e-mail archiving systems in order to efficiently process open records requests.

Branford and some other municipalities have switched to e-mail archiving software and hardware that back up years of inbound, outbound and internal e-mails, even if they’ve been deleted.

For example, in March 2010, the Pasco County, Fla., Board of County Commissioners settled on an agreement with e-mail management vendor Mimecast for cloud-based e-mail archiving services to speed up public record requests, according to the Florida Local Government Purchasing Network.

In another example, Baton Rouge, La., purchased the ArcMail Defender e-mail archiving system in January for the city’s more than 2,000 Microsoft Exchange e-mail accounts. Archiving e-mails has since assisted with several open records requests, said the city’s information services project manager, Keldric Emery.

“We get somewhat complicated requests,” Emery said. “We might have a request where [constituents] might ask for an e-mail maybe from two different people on a certain day, or maybe in a certain week or certain period.”

The archiving system makes copies of every e-mail sent over a city’s mail server while filtering inbound spam. A copy of an e-mail is sent to the appropriate recipient, while another copy is stored on ArcMail’s servers where it’s indexed, compressed and archived. All data is then encrypted to ensure data security, according to ArcMail’s website.

Branford purchased the same system in August 2008 for nearly $2,500. The town’s Microsoft Outlook e-mail accounts — roughly 400 of them — were switched over to ArcMail Defender. Each employee received a user name and logon password to access his or her archived e-mails, which can be done by typing in search cues such as e-mail addresses, names and dates, said Hugret.

The archive system also stores voicemails and faxes that are sent over e-mail, said Kathryn LaBanca, Branford’s assistant finance director. At first, LaBanca needed some time to adjust to the system, but once she became more familiar with it, she said she didn’t have any trouble with the software.

When the archiving system stores the e-mails, only one copy of each e-mail sent is stored, even if it has multiple recipients. For example, if an e-mail is sent to 20 people, only one of the e-mail’s 20 copies is stored, Hugret said. Since multiple copies of e-mails aren’t stored, Branford will be able to store more e-mails for a longer time period.

“That’s important from a storage standpoint because we think with this device — and based on our pressing usage — we’re under 15 percent of capacity,” Hugret said. “We’re probably going to have the same appliance for seven years before we need to get another appliance.”

LaBanca said she can delete e-mails more frequently knowing all e-mail copies will be stored. If a records request is made, she won’t have to worry that important documents have been deleted permanently.

“The thought or the concern of deleting something that you might have a FOIA request for two years down the road,” LaBanca said, “it takes that burden off you.”

http://www.govtech.com/policy-management/E-Records-Burden-E-Mail-Archiving-021611.html

Many companies are resistant to transition archived email to the cloud with the following, well-founded concerns.

While cloud-based computing is certainly an interesting proposition with some obvious benefits, its lack of maturity still poses some inherent and significant risks. Many companies are resistant to transition archived email to the cloud with the following, well-founded concerns:

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Email Archiving Leader ArcMail Gains Traction in Government Markets with ArcMail Defender Product Line

SHREVEPORT, La., January 11, 2011 -- ArcMail Technology, Inc., a leading provider of email archiving and email management appliances that address multiple business issues, today announced that it is building momentum in the government market as municipalities recognize the benefits of email archiving for storing, retrieving, classifying and purging email to improve organizational efficiency and compliance practices.

“Municipalities have IT requirements just like any other organization, but because they are government entities, the need to properly maintain and protect their email data becomes that much more vital,” says Rory Welch, CEO of ArcMail. “ArcMail is seeing increased traction in this market as municipalities -- both large and small --seek to put more robust email solutions in place.”

While municipalities are not required to abide by the data retention requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, they must still be prepared to deliver any requested documents under federal Freedom of Information (FOI) rules. Beyond compliance, municipalities are making use of email archiving to not only provide instant access to stored email data, but to also alleviate the storage and performance burden on their primary mail servers.

Town of Branford Turns to Email Archiving

For the town of Branford, Conn., a decision made several years ago to save all incoming and outgoing email correspondence prompted its purchase of an email archiving solution. According to Peter R. Hugret, Branford’s information technology director, along with this decision came the need to find ways to improve data storage and retention practices, save storage costs and make email retrieval much more efficient for users.

Notes Hugret, “We contacted several vendors and dealers after researching the market. We saw two demonstrations, and after pricing and reference checking, ArcMail was the unanimous choice from both a cost and ease of use standpoint. The product has performed flawlessly in that it has never been ‘down’ nor has an end user been unable to find a document when the correct search arguments were posed.”

Hugret added, “The bottom line is that we are very satisfied users of the ArcMail archiving appliance and have -- and will continue -- to recommend it to anyone who asks.”

The Defender is also deployed within a number of other U.S. municipalities, including a major Louisiana city, which is making use of the appliance to manage more than 1,200 internal email accounts. After experiencing difficulty with other solutions, the municipality ultimately installed the ArcMail solution, and continues to benefit from the product.

The ArcMail Defender line of enterprise-class email archiving solutions is sold worldwide and includes eight appliances ranging in capacity from 500GB to 16TB, with larger customized solutions also available. Featuring a fault-tolerant open source design, multiple configuration options and archiving speeds of up to 150,000-plus messages per day, the ArcMail Defender line is priced starting at $2,899.

Resellers interested in learning more about becoming an ArcMail partner can find more details at http://www.arcmail.com/info-for-partners/.

SHREVEPORT, La., October 26, 2010 -- ArcMail Technology, Inc., a leading provider of email archiving and email management appliances that address multiple business issues, today strengthened its commitment to the channel with the introduction of an aggressive new value-added reseller (VAR) program designed to further support VARs in the sales, marketing and training of ArcMail email archiving and management solutions.

The enhanced ArcMail Reseller Program will provide channel partners across the U.S. with access to market development funds (MDFs) to encourage the promotion of ArcMail solutions to small-to-midsize businesses (SMB) and enterprise markets.

In addition, the company has founded the ArcMail Sales & Training University to provide resellers with the training, knowledge, resources and support required to achieve long-term success.

“Migrating to a pure channel distribution strategy makes good business sense at this stage of our company’s growth,” says Rory Welch, CEO of ArcMail. “We have strategically aligned ourselves with VARs that have extensive relationships with SMBs – particularly in the areas of community and regional banking, state and local governments, and education – all of which represent significant market opportunities for the solutions provided by email archiving and management. Recommitting to the channel allows us to quickly extend our footprint in these burgeoning markets and expand into new sectors such as healthcare, while at the same time focusing on our core competency of product innovation. “

Effective immediately, ArcMail solutions will be available exclusively through its partner channel. The company will maintain its focus on product development, and support VARs in the marketing, sales and implementation of ArcMail solutions under a tiered channel strategy. The ArcMail Reseller Program will support Standard, Premier and Elite partner levels, each of which qualifies for access to the ArcMail Sales & Training University. In addition, eligible Premier and Elite partners benefit from a deeper discount structure as well as marketing development funds.

This new program both supports a more collaborative approach to funding ArcMail marketing activities and empowers VARs with hands-on training experience for the solutions they’ll take to market. Partners can leverage MDFs to finance a wide-range of qualified marketing activities, such as advertising, email marketing, telemarketing, demo units and tradeshow expenses, while Elite partners will experience the benefits offered by the ArcMail Sales & Training University free of cost.

“Archiving and e-discovery issues are critical to our customers in the education and enterprise markets,” says Karen Greer, president of Secure Content Solutions (SCT), a West Chester, Ohio-based provider of secure, best-of-breed email content, Internet and network protection solutions. “SCT’s 14 years in the network security space have taught us the importance of providing the highest level of service possible, and ArcMail’s new channel program supports that goal from both a technology and training standpoint. We’re looking forward to taking part in this new program to build our email archiving business while helping customers to meet their information and security objectives with ArcMail.”

Existing ArcMail VARs can access more details about the new ArcMail Reseller Program at http://www.arcmail.com/info-for-partners/partner-documents/partner-docs-partner-program/. New resellers applications can be submitted at http://www.arcmail.com/info-for-partners/partner-application/.

About ArcMail Technology
ArcMail is a world-class trusted provider of scalable solutions that address multiple business issues through best-in-class email technologies and services. For more information, visit www.arcmail.com or call 318-841-1151.

to Take Company to the Next Level

SHREVEPORT, La., July 28, 2010 -- ArcMail Technology, Inc., a leading provider of email archiving and email management appliances, today announced the appointment of Rory Welch as CEO. With diverse management experience and success growing international businesses across multiple industries, Welch will usher ArcMail into the next phase of the Company’s lifecycle with emphasis on expanding global sales, marketing and distribution strategies.

“From regulatory compliance to network performance, there are many business and technology drivers that represent significant opportunities for growth in the email archiving market,” says Welch.  “ArcMail has deep expertise in product development and support, and a value proposition that resonates with companies across virtually every industry.  I look forward to building upon ArcMail’s legacy of success and identifying new opportunities for innovative technology solutions, channel partnerships and operations optimization.”

According to Russ Vernon, ArcMail’s chairman of the board, “Rory possesses a rare combination of management experience and a proven track record for success that make him uniquely qualified to shepherd ArcMail at this pivotal point in the Company’s growth.  I am honored to welcome him to the helm of our executive team and I look forward to supporting his leadership strategy for growth moving forward.”

A senior executive with more than 20 years of experience in strategy, supply chain, sourcing, distribution, logistics, marketing and sales management, Welch has success in expanding profits through both revenue growth and cost savings.  Prior to joining ArcMail, he managed his own consulting firm, and before that he held leadership positions at Movado Group, Inc., including Chief Operating Officer for the boutique division and Senior Vice President of wholesale operations. 

Earlier in his career, Welch served as VP of strategic planning and analysis at Arrow Electronics, where he was responsible for building performance models across all aspects of the organization. While at Arrow, Welch also held positions as VP of product management for Asia-Pacific, with responsibility for overseeing all aspects of product management for the $1 billion division; as well as general manager of aerospace/military program accounts; product manager; and asset and logistics manager. 

Welch started his career in the power transmission equipment industry both in distribution and manufacturing, and after graduate school became a consultant at New York Consulting Partners, where he led projects focused on driving operational and supply chain excellence.  He is a graduate of Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business with a master’s degree in business administration, and holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Furman University. 

About ArcMail Technology

ArcMail is a leading provider of simple, secure and cost-effective email archiving and management solutions.  Honored with Network Products Guide’s Product Innovation Award, ArcMail helps companies and public sector organizations better utilize their email and satisfy regulatory requirements.  With the rapid growth of email usage, the Shreveport, LA-based company addresses a need for simple, secure email archiving that is affordable for small businesses yet robust enough to handle demands of enterprise companies and government entities.

ArcMail’s solution was developed to provide cost-effective email archiving that improves the user experience, reduces the load on IT resources and safely secures the business information contained in emails, all in an easy-to-use appliance. ArcMail is the email archiving solution for more than 1,000 organizations with anywhere from 5 to 50,000 mailboxes across a broad section of industries. ArcMail has also been recognized as a market leader by leading business analyst companies who report on email archiving appliance vendors. For more information, visit www.arcmail.com or call 318-841-1151.