Back Up Isn’t Enough to Meet Compliance
C2C Systems’ Archive One Used by Organizations Worldwide
22nd February 2005

Long before companies started to scramble to meet the deadline of Sarbanes-Oxley, C2C Systems released a compliance product that has proved to be popular with customers across the globe. Archive One Compliance — an archiving, retention and retrieval management application for Microsoft Exchange — in just a year has thousands of licenses in use in the United States, the United Kingdom and across Europe.
“While archiving for storage purposes is the leading driver for deployment of archiving solutions, regulatory compliance is the second most powerful driver. Companies in regulated industries today simply don't have a choice — in order to comply with regulations, they must deploy an archiving solution,” says Masha Khmartseva, senior analyst at The Radicati Group, Inc.
Archive One Compliance is designed to provide a full discovery and audit trail to organizations that need to comply with the vast array of country, government, industry and corporate rules and regulations for email retention and retrieval. Venango County, located in western Pennsylvania about halfway between Pittsburgh and Erie, is one of those customers ready for any citizen request.

Venango’s local government departments (such as the Tax Claim Bureau, Veterans Services and Voter Registration/Elections) and elected officials (auditors, district attorneys and the sheriff) are all subject to Freedom of Information Laws. Venango County residents — about 57,000 people across nine boroughs and 20 townships — can ask for information about an organization, business, investigation, historical event or incident; information about a third party; information about a deceased person; and information about themselves — and Venango County local government has to comply.

The Management Information Systems (MIS) department recently purchased C2C’s Archive One Compliance. Before Archive One Compliance, Venango was backing up mailboxes to tapes nightly, and saving Friday’s tape for a month. “We needed to be able to have a copy of an email for legal matters and could not retrieve the piece of mail,” explains Bill Kresinski, MIS Director. “Sometimes the mail had been deleted and we could not go back far enough on a backup tape. Archive One Compliance has helped us reduce risk.”

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