Service delivers email archiving and monitoring solution.
Press Release Summary:
Secure, end-to-end, real-time messaging and archiving service helps SMBs meet compliance demands of regulatory mandates such as Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA for email recordkeeping. Along with back-up, redundancy, and disaster recovery capabilities, it provides online search and recovery functionality. Customized rules detect keyword and phrase violations within messages, and visible message audit trails enable compliance logging.
Original Press Release:
Apptix Unveils New Secure Email Archiving and Monitoring Solution to Extend Suite of On-Demand Applications
HERNDON, Va., Jan. 9 /-- Apptix, a premiere provider of on- demand, managed messaging and collaboration solutions for small and medium- sized businesses (SMBs), today launched a new archiving and monitoring service to provide SMBs with an easy-to-use, effective solution to meet the strict compliance demands of regulatory mandates, such as Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA, for email recordkeeping. More importantly, given how critical email has become to corporate operations, even businesses that are not faced with regulatory mandates will benefit from the advanced back-up, redundancy, and disaster recovery capabilities offered through this solution. This solution is offered through a partnership with Global Relay Communications, a leading provider of outsourced, enterprise-class message archiving, management and compliance services.
"Fueled by Sarbanes-Oxley and related government mandates, archiving and secure data storage are two critical technology components needed by businesses to achieve end-to-end compliance," said John O'Keefe, Sr. Internet Managed Services Analyst at Current Analysis. "By offering such capabilities on a secure, hosted basis, Apptix reduces implementation costs to SMBs while easing their data management burden."
As organizations face increasingly stringent requirements to capture and confidentially preserve all business communications from their email and messaging systems, it is critical to implement controls that enforce, monitor and manage corporate and regulatory policies and procedures for appropriate email usage. Through its technology partnership with Global Relay, Apptix will enable businesses to archive and monitor email and attachments in real-time. The solution includes advanced online search and recovery capabilities, customized rules for detecting keyword and phrase violations within messages, and visible message audit trails for compliance logging. These are all key capabilities for corporate compliance policy enforcement.
Another benefit of this secure end-to-end messaging and archiving solution is that by uniting Apptix's hosted Exchange environment together with Global Relay's mirrored data centers, the combined messaging services provide backup redundancy for business continuity and disaster recovery planning.
"Our SMB customers are facing the same regulatory demands as big businesses. Regardless of the size of the company, sophisticated solutions and strict controls are required to meet compliance mandates," said Apptix CEO Amir Hudda. "We are working with Global Relay and our other technology partners to ease this burden by providing secure and reliable on-demand solutions in a hosted environment, requiring no infrastructure, maintenance or management from a customer perspective."
All email and attachments, together with other electronic communications, such as BlackBerry and imported legacy email, are securely captured and unified in Global Relay's Message Archiver for rapid online search, retrieval & monitoring. With secure web-based access and real-time indexing, powered by search engine technology, every user has the ability to find any current or historical email in seconds. In addition, a copy of all customer data is date- time stamped and written to a dedicated, tamperproof WORM (Write Once, Read Many) drive to securely preserve an authentic, evidentiary-quality copy of every message.
"We are excited about our Apptix partnership and the opportunity to provide message archiving and compliance solutions to Apptix customers," said Global Relay CEO, Warren Roy. "Our partnership seamlessly integrates the messaging services of two leading outsourced providers to deliver a practical business solution with complete data security and privacy."
About Apptix
Apptix , founded in 1997, is a premiere provider of on-demand, managed messaging and collaboration solutions to more than 65,000 end-users and 7,500 customers worldwide. Its offerings, including hosted Exchange, SharePoint and Blackberry, provide small and medium-sized businesses with a more affordable, reliable and secure alternative to purchasing and managing software applications in-house. Leading channel partners like IBM, Hewlett- Packard, Bell Canada, NTT Verio and Savvis have selected the Apptix service management platform, which supports a full range of private-label solutions and is backed by multi-tiered customer service. Apptix is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for Hosting and Application Services, and has strong technology partnerships with leading vendors like Research in Motion and Citrix, among others.
Apptix is headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, with additional locations across the US and in Pune, India. For more information, visit http://www.apptix.com/.
CONTACT: Jackie Funk of Apptix, +1-703-890-2825, or jackie.funk@apptix.com
