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Postini Offers New Personal Archive Service

New Personal Archive product comes from the off-site email management and security provider Postini. The new service is targeted for the corporate market, and will allow users to store all email and instant messaging communications permanently. The service gives real-time access and search options for the stored archives. This could be a boon to network administrators, who are caught between the rock of double-digit growth in email usage, and the hard place of business and regulatory demands for increased storage capacity.

Andrew Lochart, senior director of marketing for Postini, told Internet News that the service will allow users to archive 1 gigabyte of email and instant messages per year. That`s ten times the amount of storage available to users of typical corporate Exchange or Domino servers, according to Michael Osterman of Osterman Research, a Seattle-based consulting and research firm specialized in messaging. In addition to giving users more storage capacity, the service provides users with real-time access to their archives--in contrast to archives that are backed up on corporate servers, or as typically befuddling .pst files.

Moreover, Postini is able to include IMs in email searches by linking individuals` IM screen names to their corporate e-mail accounts. "That`s where the real gain is--a single view," said Lochart. Users will also be able to run full text searches of their e-mail and IMs, as well as all attachments. According to Lochart, being able to retrieve communications and documents in this manner represents a huge advantage for end-users. "These days, every kind of document that gets created ends up being sent via email," he said.