EMC unveils SourceOne

Johannesburg, 08 Apr 2009

EMC, a global provider of information infrastructure solutions, has rolled out EMC SourceOne, a new family of products and solutions for archiving, e-discovery and compliance.

Paul Fairon, content management and archiving manager of EMC SA, says SourceOne is aimed at helping companies centrally manage multiple content types in order to apply consistent retention, disposition and overall life cycle management.

“With EMC SourceOne, customers can save more than 50% in total cost of ownership, achieve payback on the solution in as little as 12 months, ensure compliance with internal governance policies and external industry regulations and mitigate risks associated with e-discovery,” Fairon says.

“EMC has built on its core strengths in backup, archiving, compliance and tiered storage to create a new brand of information governance products and solutions that can automate via policy how information is discovered, classified, managed, retained, re-used and deleted.”

According to Fairon, EMC SourceOne offers advanced automation capabilities, integration with archived applications as well as advanced controls over archive policy and e-discovery processes to ensure organisations reduce costs and information governance risks.

SourceOne delivers an integrated approach to information governance through the use of archiving as a foundational technology, enhanced by retention and disposition capabilities for effective information management, as well as e-discovery as a repeatable business process, EMC says.

The SourceOne family consists of EMC SourceOne Email Management, EMC SourceOne Discovery Manager and EMC SourceOne Discovery Collector. Initially, EMC SourceOne will archive e-mail and instant messages. EMC will provide support for files, SharePoint, enterprise applications, XML and other content types in the future.

For companies with 1 000 mailboxes, savings from EMC SourceOne will average $1 million in a single year, the company says. The solution also cuts storage and backup costs by up to 60%.

According to Gartner's report, entitled E-Discovery: Project Planning and Budgeting 2008-2011, up to 90% of stored data is redundant or out of date, and e-mail files consume up to 50% of network drive storage. Gartner also states that in 2008 and 2009, companies without an active policy and strategy for content archiving solutions can spend one-third more on e-discovery than those with content archiving solutions.