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TurboCAD Pro 15 is the premium design software solution that’s delivered exceptional value to both 2D and 3D users for over 20 years.

TurboCAD Pro 15’s robust set of 2D drafting and 3D modeling tools enable users to create innovative designs for a wide range of industries and disciplines. TurboCAD Pro 15 also includes several industry-leading technologies, such as Spatial Technology’s ACIS® solid modeling engine, LightWork Design’s photorealistic rendering and lighting engine and material libraries, and Siemens PLM Software’s D-Cubed geometric and dimensional constraints engine.

TurboCAD Pro 15’s incredible flexibility, low learning curve and overall ease of use are hallmarks of this award-winning program. A completely customizable graphical user interface, SEKE’s (Single Entry Key commands), and a Part/History Tree allows for editing of complex designs in any order.

TurboCAD Pro 15 is incredibly compatible with other CAD and graphics programs and formats, supporting import from over 30 file formats and export to over 25 formats. Our DXF and DWG file translators for AutoCAD® are considered some of the best in the industry.

Whether you are a professional mechanical engineer, architect or builder, civil engineer, woodworker, hobbyist or student, TurboCAD Pro 15 has you covered! Plus, there are optional, specialized architectural and mechanical toolsets available for purchase, as well as plug-ins that extend TurboCAD Pro 15’s capabilities into 3D Animation, Furniture Design, Computer Aided Machining (CAM), and more.

NEW! “Green” Library

Access a library of over 50 Eco-friendly objects along with dozens of materials to help conserve our natural resources.

NEW! Materials

Over 300 New Materials have been added, many that are Eco-friendly.

Enhanced 2D Drafting & 3D Modeling

Improved Lofting

Lofting guidelines provide enhanced control of your lofted objects by adding 3D splines and polylines.

NEW! Woodworking Layout Tool

Create 2D layouts of 3D models to optimize the cutting and manufacturing of new components.

NEW! Dimensions

Get greater flexibility and enhanced 2D drafting ability with New Angular Dimension for Arcs and New Surveyor Linear Dimension.

NEW! 3D Drawing Tool – Rotated Box

Create 3D box on any angle from your active workplane.

Specialized Mechanical Design

NEW! Automatic Workplane by Face

Add speed to drawing and editing in 3D. Now all drawing tools will automatically detect and reposition the workplane when mousing over the face of an object.

NEW! 3D Assembly Tools

Enjoy easier editing of 3D objects with two new assembly tools – assemble by tangent and assemble by axis.

Professional Architectural Design

Improved Terrain Tool

Create terrain objects from selected points.

NEW! Mode in Edit Dragger

Edit Segment – Improve editing of Walls, Slabs and Bulge Polylines (zero width polylines).

NEW! 1st Pricing™ Costing Module for Doors and Windows

Instantly obtain online cost quotes for Doors, Windows, and Skylights used in your drawing.

Improved Schedule Table

Now includes support for Walls and Slabs.

Optimized Data Management

NEW! Bill of Materials/Parts List

The most effective way to cost your design. Report on all object properties and block attributes, assign custom attributes, or adjust the query to produce custom reports. Then easily convert the report into a table as a new TurboCAD object.

NEW! Support of Table Object

In addition to converting a Bill of Materials report into a table, you can also use the new Insert Table Tool to create a table on the fly, or import a table from DWG/DXF files, as Table Objects are now AutoCAD® compatible.

NEW! Fill Schedule Wizard

Create and fill the schedule table with drawing information faster and easier.

Parametric Parts Creation and Management

NEW! Parametric Parts and Symbols

Ability to create fully parametric 2D and 3D content – some parts may be used in AutoCAD® as well!

NEW! Part and Symbol Library Palette

New Palette allows for easy management of Parametric Parts and symbols.

Outstanding Compatibility

NEW! ASAT File Import/Export

Enjoy enhanced compatibility for 3D solid modeling. Store 3D objects and blocks/inserts in ASAT files.

NEW! Collada (DAE) File Export

Experience enhanced operability with virtual worlds and Google™ Earth with this powerful new export option.

NEW! OBJ File Import/Export

Obtain OBJ support for polygonal models and free form models such as curves and NURB surfaces.

Improved 3DS File Import/Export

Get better interoperability with mechanical and artistic design applications with improved material, texture coordinate, and normal import/export of 3DS files.

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Powerful Tools to Bring Your Ideas to Life

TurboCAD Mac Deluxe is packed with the highest quality drafting tools and the latest ACIS® realistic rendering engine. Create 3D models and precise 2D drawings, enjoy 11,000+ 2D/3D symbols, and easily import/export to the most common file types. Anything you can dream up, TurboCAD Mac Deluxe brings to life. The simple user interface combined with intuitive tools and integrated dimensioning make it easy to make your dreams reality.

Create

• Floor Plans
• Landscapes
• Diagrams
• Circuit Boards
• Toy Models
• Electronics
• Maps
• Logos
• Illustrations
• and more!

Perfect For:

• Architects
• Engineers
• Builders
• Designers
• Contractors
• Illustrators
• Educators
• Students
• Hobbyists

Design in 2D and 3D in one easy to use application

TurboCAD Mac Deluxe has all the powerful 2D drafting and design features of TurboCAD Mac Designer, as well as additional tools for creating 3D models and realistic renderings. Plus, TurboCAD Mac Deluxe comes with a complete 2D/3D parts and symbols library to drag and drop into your drawing and speed up the design process.

Complete Set of 2D Drafting Tools

• Line tools
• Arc tools
• Curve tools
• Circle tools
• Ellipse tools
• Polygon tools
• Spline tools
• Text tools
• Dimensioning tools
• Fillet & Chamfer tools
• 2D Modifier tools
• Transformation tools

Advanced Tools for 3D Design & Rendering

• Mesh tools – create 3D mesh designs from multiple points
• Surface modeling - primitive, complex and advanced surface tools, as well as surface modifiers and transformation tools are all included
• Updated ACIS® 18 Solid modeling technology

1,000 Floor Plans

Start from scratch or choose from any one of these pre-designed floor plans you can customize to make each one your own.

Over 11,000 2D/3D symbols and parts

Choose from thousands of parts and symbols to effortlessly add to your design including electrical, mechanical, bathroom, kitchen, construction, LAN, CMOS, doors, windows, counters, fasteners, HVAC and more.

Snaps

Quickly locate x, y coordinates, tangents and perpendiculars.

NEW! Drafting Assistant

The Drafting Assistant thinks like a drafter. It automatically knows where construction lines are typically wanted and displays them temporarily when necessary.

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NEW! File Convert

Convert single images to other file formats or convert groups of images using the powerful new batch conversion tool.

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NEW! Multi-Sheet PDF

Save your designs as single or multi-page PDFs in standard or custom sizes for sending via email.

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NEW! Model to Sheet

View your drawings and designs in up to 4 different angles and views – all on the same page.

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Improved AutoCAD® Compatibility

Enhanced DXF/DWG translator for increased compatibility.

NEW! ACIS 18

Move up to the latest 3D solid modeling engine from Spatial.

And more…

• NEW! Symbol Browser
• NEW! Right-Click Popup Menu
• NEW! Trim Solid
• NEW! Cylindrical & Spherical Duplicate Tool

System Requirements

Minimum

• G4
• 256 MB of RAM
• 200 MB Free on Hard Disk
• DVD-ROM Drive
• Macintosh OS X (10.4 or greater) 32 MB Accelerated video card with OpenGL support

Recommended

• G5
• Mac OS X 10.4.5+ or later PPC/Intel
• 512 MB RAM
• 250 MB Free Hard Drive Space
• 1 GB Allocated Virtual Memory
• Internet connection and service to access some online content

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TurboCAD 15 Deluxe in its various iterations is easily one of the longest running CAD software programs ever created with a product lifespan in excess of twenty one years — and resulting in claimed sales of 2 million copies. Its not difficult to see why it’s been so successful as this latest, version, TurboCAD 15 Deluxe, costs just US$129.95.

TurboCAD 15 Deluxe is a versatile piece of computer-aided design (CAD) software as it can not only do standard 2-D/3-D technical drawings in AutoCAD’s .DWG format and .DXF drawing exchange format files (amongst many others) but is also handy in many other areas of design. It can turn its hand to product design, furniture design, kitchen and micro engineering detail design in 3D. It features good quality rendering with colour shading and lighting effects.

Included in the TurboCAD 15 Deluxe package is an useful roster of library samples, consisting of building construction, electrical, circuit boards and furniture. There are also many examples of component templates which are really useful for quick visualisations and as comparative tools against which to assess new designs.

The creation of colour transparencies with either 2-D or 3-D designs aids its functionality and gives professional results when crafting graphic design, logos and even brochures for all these newly designed products.

However, all this versatility and generous-for-the-price specification may be somewhat lost on the beginner as TurboCAD 15 Deluxe user interface is not the slickest. It cannot compare to AutoCAD or even Photoshop, for instance — TurboCAD 15 Deluxe is a bit messy and non-intuitive as a result.

A further limitation for the novice is the printed user guide, which at 470 pages long and about the thickness of a paperback novel isn’t the easiest read. It has a dry-looking layout that even some intermediate users could find convoluted. Much better would have been split up volumes of user manuals, with quick reference guides printed in larger format paper with colour screenshots.

TurboCAD 15 Deluxe is a versatile tool for mechanical design, architecture and much more.

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PC Tools Spyware Doctor v6 is a top-rated malware & spyware removal utility that detects, removes and protects your PC from thousands of potential spyware, adware, trojans, keyloggers, spybots and tracking threats. PC Tools Spyware Doctor v6 has been downloaded over 125 million times with millions of additional downloads every week!

New features of PC Tools Spyware Doctor v6:

• Improved detection capabilities - PC Tools Spyware Doctor v6 has been enhanced to improve detection effectiveness. In particular, each individual signature created in the threat database is optimized so that it is capable of detecting multiple variations of malware threats (threat variants) while maintaining minimal system resource usage (memory footprint).
• Swift clean-up for heavily infected computers - PC Tools Spyware Doctor v6 is able to detect and remove threats on heavily infected computers faster and easier than ever before. Sometimes your computer is so highly infected that you may find yourself unable to install or run security software except when in the ’safe mode’ of Windows.
• Improved Hacker Defense (Windows Vista only) - Further improvements have been included to enhance our own defense against malware threats attempting to interfere with the effectiveness of PC Tools Spyware Doctor v6. Our hacker defense system means you can be rest assured that your computer system has the most comprehensive protection while ensuring that malware threats don’t impede on the functionality or effectiveness of PC Tools Spyware Doctor v6.
• Behavior Guard (BETA add-on) - Behavior Guard provides leading edge protection from zero-day (never seen before) threats, built on the award-winning ThreatFire™, technology. Behavior Guard is currently available in the form of an optional add-on at: www.pctools.com/spyware-doctor/addons/
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  • Support for Windows Security Centre in Windows Vista Service Pack 1
  • The real-time protection module is now referred to as Intelli Guard®
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Registry Mechanic 8.0 is an advanced registry cleaner for Windows® that can safely clean, repair and optimize your registry in a few simple mouse clicks! Registry Mechanic is one of the most popular and easy to use registry cleaners on the market today, with 300,000+ downloads per week!

New features of Registry Mechanic 8.0:

• New Plug-in architecture - Registry Mechanic 8.0 has been re-designed to have a new plug-in framework which means that additional features and tools can be easily incorporated into Registry Mechanic 8.0.

• New User Interface (clean & clear design for simple navigation) - The interface in Registry Mechanic 8.0 has been re-designed to provide a clean, clear structure along with easy access to a selection of the most commonly used Windows features and Registry Mechanic 8.0 powerful features and tools. The new interface takes advantage of its latest plug-in technology, allowing for components and tools to be logically categorized and refreshed for easy accessibility. Furthermore, new features can be easily downloaded as soon as they are available via Smart Update.

• Tune-up your services (improve system performance) - By tweaking the Microsoft® Windows® services, the service tuner feature has the ability to improve the performance of your computer and provide better start-up times. This feature changes the preference of non-essential Windows services which can result in fewer system resources being consumed to help your software run more efficiently.

• Windows Management tools - Registry Mechanic 8.0 has incorporated a range of some of the most useful and popular Windows management tools in an easily accessible format. You can now access several useful Windows management components in one place at one time to take control of configuring your system simply and quickly. The Windows management tools are grouped into three categories – Computer, Security and System, each with their own set of related tools. For example, the Computer category includes access to the Windows tools:

  • Computer management

  • Windows Update

  • System Restore

  • System Properties

  • System Information

  • Control Panel

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PC Tools Internet Security 2009 combines the award-winning security technologies from PC Tools, including Spyware Doctor AntiSpyware, AntiVirus, Firewall Plus and Spam protection, to provide complete integrated protection for your PC.

New features of PC Tools Internet Security 2009:

• Latest protection from unknown threats - PC Tools Internet Security 2009 now has Behavior Guard, providing you with the latest pro-active behavioral-based technology against zero-day (never seen before) threats. Built on the award-winning ThreatFire technology, Behavior Guard has been seamlessly incorporated into PC Tools Internet Security to offer you leading protection. This new technology protects you when some anti-virus products give up! Read more about behavior-based protection.

• Improved detection capabilities - PC Tools Internet Security 2009 has been enhanced to improve detection effectiveness. In particular, each individual signature created in the threat database is optimized so that it is capable of detecting multiple variations of malware threats (threat variants) while maintaining minimal system resource usage (memory footprint).

• Internet browsing protection - Browser Defender™ toolbar - Your Microsoft Internet Explorer can take advantage of this optional feature in PC Tools Internet Security 2009 called Browser Defender. If offers website safety alerts to provide peace of mind as you surf the Internet.

  • Checks downloads for viruses, adware, spyware or other possibly unwanted programs

  • Allows you to surf safely by displaying website ratings as you browse the Internet

  • Integrates with the search results provided by popular search engines such as Google and Yahoo! so you can see if it is safe to continue even before you visit a website

  • Alerts you about websites with annoyances such as excessive pop-ups, phishing or browser exploits

  • Checks downloads for viruses, adware, spyware or other possibly unwanted programs

• Swift clean-up for heavily infected computers - PC Tools Internet Security 2009 is able to detect and remove threats on heavily infected computers faster and easier than ever before. Sometimes your computer is so highly infected that you may find yourself unable to install or run security software except when in the ’safe mode’ of Windows. In these cases, malware consumes computer resources so resulting in lengthy scanning and removal times. PC Tools Internet Security is now armed with the technology to scan in safe mode faster and more effectively by forcing your computer to take a higher priority over the scan than the malware and other software attempting to run on your system.

• Improved Hacker Defense (Windows Vista only) - Further improvements have been included to enhance our own defense against malware threats attempting to interfere with the effectiveness of PC Tools Internet Security 2009. Our hacker defense system means you can rest assured that your computer system has the most comprehensive protection while ensuring that malware threats don’t impede on the functionality or effectiveness of PC Tools Internet Security 2009. The new hacker defense utilizes a particular feature available in Windows Vista (known as ASLR) to make it difficult for hackers to exploit or gain control over PC Tools Internet Security 2009.

• Enhanced spam detection - The anti-spam component of PC Tools Internet Security has been optimized to quickly process incoming and outgoing emails and has improved learning capabilities to distinguish spam email from legitimate email. PC Tools Internet Security 2009 not only supports Microsoft Outlook, but now supports Mozilla Thunderbird, Eudora, and any other email client that uses either the POP3 or IMAP email standards.

• Firewall Enhancements - The firewall component of PC Tools Internet Security 2009 has been upgraded to offer your computer better protection. It provides a defense against malware attempting to bypass the firewall and transmitting unauthorized data, such as your personal information, to an unauthorized third party, (hackers!).

• Other enhancements

  • Support for Windows Security Centre in Windows Vista Service Pack

  • The real-time protection module is now referred to as Intelli Guard

  • Enhanced error reporting to assist with diagnosis of program crashes.

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Symantec - Balancing Data Protection and System Recovery

Symantec Backup Exec™ System Recovery  Windows Small Business Server Edition is the gold standard in complete Windows® system recovery with the ability to restore systems in minutes, not hours or days, even to dissimilar hardware or virtual environments. Now includes flexible offsite protection, enhanced recovery capabilities, and integration with Symantec security and systems management solutions. Click Here

No matter how up-to-date your desktops and servers are, data loss and system crashes are inevitable. And no matter what the cause, when vital business information isn’t available, every minute down costs you money. That’s why you need to have a data protection and system recovery strategy that gets you back up and running within minutes, not hours or days.

This article looks at what small and midsize businesses need to do to rapidly and confidently back up and recover vital data and systems.

Every business has unique information protection and disaster recovery challenges. But organizations of all sizes face the same issues when it comes to keeping their data protected and available.

For one thing, consider the growth of corporate data. By numerous accounts, the amount of data that needs to be protected is growing at a rate of 50% per year. For small and midsize businesses, the challenge of backing up this data and recovering it quickly is proving more onerous than ever.

At the same time, Microsoft Exchange has become a mission-critical application for many companies. Today, various reports estimate that the majority of a typical company’s intellectual property is contained in email. It’s not surprising, then, that keeping this application highly available and protecting the associated data is not an option, but a critical necessity.

The objective of traditional backups is to minimize the downtime of the messaging environment while providing the fastest possible data recovery in the event of a system crash, database corruption, loss of a mailbox, or other data loss. This is primarily accomplished through full or incremental online backups of the Exchange databases. But as data volumes grow, so does the backup window, which leaves a company at risk of data loss. Also, if organizations need to restore individual email messages or mailboxes, a separate Exchange mailbox backup is required to restore an individual item without recovering the entire Exchange database, which is twice the backup time and twice the storage space.

Symantec Backup Exec for Windows Small Business Server eliminates the need to run daily full or incremental Exchange backups with continuous data protection, which backs up data continuously as it changes, eliminating the backup window. It also eliminates the need to run slow Exchange mailbox backups while still allowing the recovery of individual email messages, folders, and mailboxes through Granular Recovery Technology (GRT). As a result, not only can Exchange be continuously backed up while online, but individual messages and mailboxes can be recovered in seconds.

When organizations think of backup and recovery, it’s usually about protecting information residing on a server. It’s important to remember, however, that both data and system information are at stake. Too often, so much importance is put on protecting the data that the system is overlooked. But if the system isn’t operable, the chances of accessing the data are slim. When a server operating system fails, it can take hours (days, in some instances) to rebuild and restore the server.

There’s also the matter of having to replace the server hardware. Most small and midsize organizations can’t afford the luxury of maintaining extra server hardware in case they need to replace an existing system. This introduces the issue of restoring a system to different hardware, while trying to preserve the integrity of the system state and the availability of the data.

Today, all systems – from servers to desktops to laptops – must be quickly recoverable, whether it’s to the exact same hardware or to completely dissimilar hardware.

Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery Windows Small Business Server Edition allows businesses to recover from system loss or disasters in minutes—even to dissimilar hardware platforms, virtual environments, or in remote, unattended locations. Backup Exec System Recovery – a complementary, standalone solution to Backup Exec for Windows Small Business Server – captures a recovery point of the entire live Windows system without impacting productivity. When systems fail, you can quickly restore them without the need for lengthy manual processes.

Symantec Backup Exec and Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery are now integrated with Symantec’s recently updated ThreatCon global security alerting system. The Symantec ThreatCon is an interactive tool that alerts users to the current state of global Internet security. (The current ThreatCon level is displayed on www.symantec.com.) A free service, it provides users with information that can help protect them against a wide range of vulnerabilities and threats.

The integration of ThreatCon alerts with Backup Exec and Backup Exec System Recovery means that businesses can automatically run a backup when the ThreatCon level reaches or exceeds a specified level. The ability to proactively back up data and systems based on the threat landscape helps ensure businesses can easily restore their environment to the point-in-time before the virus or threat infected their network, thus reducing the overall risk of downtime.

All businesses need their critical data and systems to be protected and available. But given the exponential growth of corporate data, as well as the rapidly escalating cost of system downtime, the challenges facing small and midsize businesses are more acute than ever.

Today’s solutions must offer best-of-breed data protection and system recovery. Businesses can’t afford to waste valuable time and resources restoring a complete data volume or database when all a user needs is a single file or email message. Likewise, they need assurance that expensive system downtime is kept to an absolute minimum.

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BitDefender has upgraded their best-selling home office software products: Antivirus, Internet Security, and Total Security. BitDefender’s products won’t slow down your PC, offer free 24/7 personal support and are jam-packed with useful extras.

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Summary

With the recognition that email is as mission-critical as any other IT system, it’s no surprise that organizations around the world are paying closer attention to archiving solutions that address resource management, retention management, and e-discovery management.

Introduction

How serious can lost email be? Just ask the White House.

Recently, the Bush Administration took some heat for failing to keep adequate archives of its email. According to the Washington Post, the administration set aside the existing archiving system as part of a move from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange, and its current system reportedly relies on a combination of backup tapes and hand sorting. In May, court documents revealed that the White House was unable to find emails sent during a period in 2003 that encompassed the run-up to the invasion of Iraq.

Technical experts quoted by the Post said the administration relied on an inadequate archiving system for storing the millions of emails sent through White House servers, despite court orders and statutes requiring the preservation of such records. And two groups, the National Security Archive and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, have accused the White House in lawsuits of violating the Federal Records Act because of what they say is its failure to preserve millions of emails, a charge the White House rejects.

With the recognition that email is as mission-critical as any other IT system, it’s no surprise that organizations around the world are paying closer attention to archiving solutions that address resource management, retention management, and e-discovery management. This article looks at how IT organizations should go about evaluating and implementing these solutions.

Getting started

According to a study by Osterman Research Inc., 45% of email users in the United States will use an archiving solution by the end of this year, and that percentage is expected to increase to 63% by the end of 2009. For its part, Gartner Inc. has reported that the email archiving software market grew 33% in 2007 to reach $376 million and is forecasting a compound annual growth rate of nearly 36% until it reaches $1.72 billion by 2012.

The reasons for such steady growth aren’t hard to find. Organizations today are finding themselves under increasing pressure, both legal and regulatory, to properly retain or delete documents. For example, recent amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure concerning the discovery of electronically stored information are exposing organizations to new risks and costs during litigation and subsequent discovery.

For companies considering dedicated email archiving, there are two main alternatives to consider at the outset: in-house or hosted. The in-house alternative uses internal resources and IT infrastructure to process and store archived email messages. Most providers favor this category. Hosted solutions provide another option for companies with limited IT budgets and personnel, as well as companies wanting to avoid investing a lot of up-front money in a system.

The next challenge involves determining the specific requirements for the email-archiving solution. What systems will it support? What is the volume of messages that will pass through it each day? What information should be retained? The answers to these questions will help set the criteria that will be used to select a product. Other important questions to ask include:

• Have you engaged key stakeholders, incorporating input from a variety of sources both inside and outside the IT department?
• Do you have mixed systems (Windows, Unix, Linux)?
• Is your corporate email system centrally located or geographically dispersed?
• Can the solution archive messages from multiple email systems?
• Can the solution capture messages at the gateway?
• Does expansion of the system require taking the system down?
• Can the solution search across individual mailboxes throughout a network?
• How long would an enterprise-wide search take?
• How are messages secured?
• Can the solution work with encryption?
• Can the solution allow off-line access to the archive?
• Can the solution present to users only those messages they have permission for?

Once an archiving solution has been selected, start with a pilot installation, focusing on a small subset of the environment. Assuming the product-selection process was thorough, this should go smoothly. Consider dividing the environment into logical segments for a phased deployment. (It probably won’t be practical to turn on the archiving system for the entire enterprise.) A phased deployment also reduces the workload for the implementation team, which can’t be expected to support everything at once.

Storing, managing, and discovering critical business information

Symantec Enterprise Vault is an archiving platform that stores, manages, and enables the discovery of corporate data from email systems, file server environments, instant messaging platforms, and collaboration and content management systems. Recently positioned by Gartner in the leaders quadrant in the 2008 Magic Quadrant for Email Active Archiving, Enterprise Vault delivers six key business benefits:

• Eliminates .PST headaches. PST files (also known as personal folders or Outlook data files within Outlook) were not designed to handle the rigorous demands of today’s large-scale corporate email requirements. However, many companies commonly move email from Exchange to PST files for retention. Ultimately, these files create more problems than they solve. They are one of the main reasons why many organizations eventually seek an enterprise archiving solution. Enterprise Vault software helps organizations solve these issues by migrating PST files into a central archiving repository.
• Archives for legal and compliance. Enterprise Vault can be configured to retain and expire email and other electronically stored information according to policy, ensuring that it is kept for the appropriate period of time required to meet regulatory or legal requirements.
• Faster backup and improved disaster recovery. By reducing the online message store by 50% to 75%, Enterprise Vault can shrink backup and recovery times and can help save money on storage and storage management. More important, this archived data can be leveraged for greater value through search and retrieval tools. End users benefit from the ability to initiate their own restores quickly, and IT groups spend less time on administrative restore requests.
• Automatic mailbox management. With Enterprise Vault’s automatic mailbox management, organizations can eliminate quotas and message size restrictions and give users a mailbox of virtually unlimited size. Enterprise Vault also reduces the time spent dealing with mailbox housekeeping. Admin-defined policies automatically archive individual mailbox email and attachments out of Microsoft Exchange and into online Enterprise Vault stores.
• Storage optimization. Enterprise Vault blocks unwanted content and moves files to alternative storage devices without affecting the end user, allowing organizations to free up space on primary storage resources. User-driven recovery of specific content helps reduce administration overhead.
• Intelligent archiving. Because different types of content have different values (e.g., business, personal, junk, and so on), companies are increasingly interested in controlling archive storage and operational costs. Intelligent archiving is a methodology to shape the Enterprise Vault archive and store only business-valued content with context. This is accomplished through classification options using automated classification, user-driven classification, or third-party (for example, records management) approaches.

Ultimately, Enterprise Vault helps alleviate the pressure on an organization to properly protect and manage its business-critical data.

Conclusion

Recent studies by the Enterprise Strategy Group suggest that email and other messaging applications store as much as 75% of a company’s intellectual property. That’s not surprising, given that organizations today count on their email systems to be available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. But with little extra time to maintain backup windows, IT administrators are challenged to meet stringent business requirements. And in spite of exponential data growth and increasing user demands for data recoverability, IT budgets remain flat.    

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