C2C's Archive One and MaX Compression Keep Attachments Where They Belong - with Stored E-mail

April 5th, 2004

If your mailbox is larger than you would like, don't store attachments elsewhere - compress them with MaX Compression, a C2C Systems product that automatically and invisibly zips and unzips email attachments sent/received, and archive it all with Archive One, an email archiving solution for Microsoft Exchange.

Much of the recent press around attachment management systems doesn't mention that there could be legal complications with products that strip attachments out of the email and store them separately from the messaging system. There are also possible recovery issues with synchronizing two separate data sources on failure and for remote Outlook Web Access users who may not be able to reach the 'stripped' attachment directly within the email.

"Users in heavily regulated industries like financial services may not want to use an attachment management system," says Dave Hunt, CEO of C2C Systems. "The link from the attachment to the original email must remain intact, otherwise a court may not find the evidence credible in a lawsuit. It's best to maintain email messages in their original form using an archiving product."

Instead of breaking the archive, many C2C customers pair Archive One with MaX Compression. "We have had performance issues with overgrown information stores. Space management and consolidation of archived data is very important," says Luis Diogo at Fish & Richardson P.C., a national law firm with 300 lawyers in eight U.S. offices. "Automatic compression plays a big role in keeping the stores healthy, especially when working in conjunction with an archiving product."

Mobility Electronics, an Arizona-based manufacturer of innovative portable computing solutions for the mobile electronics device market, saved about 30GB in space in just a few weeks with MaX Compression. "Our information store growth has slowed down significantly," says Michael Cushard, systems engineer. "MaX Compression has worked great for us."

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