Email Archiving

In partnership with Global Relay, we provide Financial Planners and Advisors in both Canada and the United States with a comprehensive email compliance solution for addressing business demands, including:

• Mail Management and long-term storage of email communications with online search and retrieval.
• Regulatory Compliance -- IIROC (IDA) and UMIR, SEC and FINRA for Broker-Dealers, Investment Advisors and Hedge Funds; Sarbanes-Oxley for public companies; Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) and privacy mandates such as HIPAA and Gramm-Leach-Bliley for health care providers and law firms.
• Litigation eDiscovery and audit requests.
• Security and protection of mission-critical business information.
• Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery planning.
• Migration and consolidation of PST files, backup tapes and historical data, in a central online repository, together with email, BlackBerry, Bloomberg, Reuters, instant messaging and e-fax.

What is Email Archiving?

Global Relay's Message Archiver provides secure, off-site email archiving and long-term storage with online access. An authentic copy of all incoming, internal and outgoing hosted Exchange email & attachments, IM, Bloomberg, Reuters, BlackBerry, e-fax and any PST files and imported legacy email, is captured, replicated and unified in the Message Archiver for rapid web-based search, retrieval & monitoring.

All messages are securely stored and organized in Global Relay's mirrored Data Centers. The simple web-based search and retrieval process provides rapid access by all users to current and historical email records, even if the original has been deleted.

Features & Benefits

Email Management & Storage Optimization

• Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivery model
• secure, centralized, off-site storage with multi-Data Center replication
• eliminates mailbox size limitations
• online access to current & historical email and instant messages
• rapid search & retrieval via full text indexing
• searches on email, headers & attachments
• email is serialized, time-date stamped
• eliminate PST files and migrate existing data from in-house solutions or Lotus Notes
• online administrator Control Center for management of user's access right
• multi-lingual interface (Eng., Fr., Sp., Ger., Port., Jp., Chin.)
• unicode for search and display in all languages

Compliance, Audits & eDiscovery

• meets stringent compliance & audit rules (IIROC, UMIR, FINRA, SEC, FRCP, SOX, HIPAA, privacy)
• WORM back-up with write-verification ensures message integrity & authenticity
• unified online search, retrieval, monitoring & audit tools for policy enforcement
• eDiscovery & case management tools
• secure end-to-end dual encryption to ensure privacy and non-disclosure
• full audit trails & reports on email and IM history
• random sampling, keyword flagging and legal holds
• complete lifecycle management with retention & disposal periods

Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery

• One-Click Recovery to Outlook
• mirrored data redundancy with 4 copies of every messsage
• geographically isolated offsite backup with multi-Data Center replication
• acts as a permanent secondary mail system to send & receive email

Implementation

• full integration with Hosted Exchange email or in-house servers
• seamless implementation within hours
• no software, hardware or programming required
• synchronized access via Active Directory integration
• scalable; pay-as-you-grow solution

Why Global Relay?

Global Relay is a leading provider of hosted Email Archiving, IM Archiving and Business Continuity Services, delivering affordable managed enterprise-class email & IM archiving and monitoring services to over 2,000 customers worldwide. With secure end-to-end encryption, email and IM is securely archived and monitored for regulatory compliance, audits and legal eDiscovery.

As the developer and operator of its technology, Global Relay has provided hosted email archiving solutions since 1999 without a single incident of data loss. Global Relay specializes in messaging compliance solutions for public companies, financial and healthcare industries.

The Forrester Wave™: Message Archiving Hosted Services, Q1 2008 Report Positions Global Relay as the Only Strong Performer

Global Relay was among the select five message archiving vendors that Forrester Research invited to participate in its Forrester Wave report, "The Forrester Wave™: Message Archiving Hosted Services, Q1, 2008."

In this Forrester Wave evaluation, Global Relay is named the only Strong Performer in Message Archiving Hosted Services. Forrester scores Global Relay's Current Offering NUMBER 1 in four of the six sub-categories:

• Security
• Message Capture
• Ease of Use for End Users & Administrators
• Supervision

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