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Email archiving is becoming increasingly important for more and more enterprises. The need for archiving solutions is being driven by complicated compliance requirements and the ability to perform data forensics as part of an audit. DataCove is looking to make archiving and auditing of email a lot easier with a series of appliances that offer comprehensive feature sets.

DataCove is virtually a plug and play email archival appliance. Within a few minutes after logging on to a test unit, I quickly learned how to manage it. In fact, for experienced email administrators, there is no learning curve whatsoever. In short, the DataCove is a mission-critical email archiving solution that solves the serious problem of archiving messages without the usual trappings of an enterprise appliance.

DataCove provides a simple hands off approach to daily usage that solution providers will surely enjoy. What’s more, the technology scales up to enterprise level solutions without the complexity associated with large scale deployments. DataCove’s modular design allows administrators to upgrade storage while keeping the access simple to use. Some DataCove models feature hot swappable drives, which allow a unit to be fixed in minutes if any disks fail.

DataCove rivals products from tough competing vendors such as ArcMail and Mimosa Systems. Administrators will quickly come to that same conclusion once they deploy DataCove on their network. DataCove uses email journaling or SMTP for collecting and archiving messages, and can access messages from POP and IMAP servers.  The unit’s simplicity comes at a price. Typically, in an Exchange shop, administrators turn on journaling to comply with regulatory requirements. However, journaling’s major drawback is that it doubles the workload of an Exchange server. Journaling can further tax a server if mail folders, contacts, calendars and other documents are also archived. Solution providers interested in offering DataCove will have to take that storage and performance hit into account, before sizing a system for deployment and that may increase the pricing and or force an Exchange server upgrade.