Cloud Integration

There is a profound shift in IT taking place.
 

More and more applications, from email to CRM to online file sharing programs, are being delivered in the cloud. But as organizations increasingly move these mission-critical applications to the cloud, the ability to archive this content becomes important for a number of reasons:

  • E-Discovery: Organizations need to understand how they will respond to potential lawsuits and complex e-discovery requests when the information resides in different clouds (e.g., Office 365, Facebook, or even Salesforce.com). Can your organization quickly find and produce messages, beyond email, based on data ranges, named custodians and keywords?   
     
  • Compliance: Can your organization provide proof of compliance for data retention, encryption and supervision?  SEC, FINRA and HIPAA requirements, state and federal government regulations and growing legislation surrounding online privacy, impact just about every organization. Consequently, organizations need to address how they can meet these requirements while letting their users exploit the productivity and collaboration benefits of these new cloud platforms.
         
  • Data Protection: What happens if the cloud service provider experiences an outage? What happens if data is inadvertently lost? Can users stay productive during the outage or does it cause a major business disruption? Most enterprises realize that they need a backup plan. And a secure online archive offers that insurance policy since it captures copies of every message and attachment, sent or received, within a centralized online archive.  
     
  • Business Intelligence: The online archive has the potential to deliver enterprise decision makers with real business insights. Organizations can leverage their archive to get a pulse of employee sentiment, understand messaging patterns with key clients and prospects, and be alerted to potential HR or intellectual property (IP) loss issues.
     

 

Because of these factors, organizations need to think about which cloud platforms they adopt, how they adopt them, and how they can integrate with their existing archiving solution.While a basic, built-in solution may work well with on-premise email platforms, they may prove inadequate for cloud-ready enterprises looking to manage, collaborate and transact business in the cloud.