Get the latest IDC perspective on email archiving and hear from customer Hastings & Prince Edward Counties Health Unit on archiving challenges and lessons learned

Email archiving is a crucial technology for enabling organizations of all sizes to deal with the ever-increasing volume of email. Among the key considerations for archiving are long-term retention for complying with eDiscovery and regulatory requirements, storage efficiency and management, and the need of end-users to access their email anytime from any device.

Join us for this interactive session with guest speaker IDC -- a leading industry analyst firm and Hastings & Prince Edward Counties Health Unit -- a Barracuda Message Archiver customer to hear what is driving customers to adopt archiving solutions and best practices in their deployment, including:

• Latest trends in message archiving
  • eDiscovery and compliance, along with the ability to set policies, search, analyze and export relevant messages.
  • Efficient storage management, including deduplication and compression.
  • End-user access from any device anywhere.

• How customer Hastings & Prince Edward Counties Health Unit uses the Barracuda Message Archiver to easily and cost-effectively:
  •  Meet regulatory requirements for retention and discovery.
  •  Handle storage and quota management.
  •  Provide end-user access and email recovery.

Laura DuBois, IDC Program Vice President Storage, will discuss why email archiving is important to your business today and in the future. She will be followed by Tom Lockhart, Hastings & Prince Edwards Counties Health Unit Information Technology Systems Manager, who will describe their email archiving solution and the lessons learned along the way.

Speakers

Laura DuBois, IDC

Laura DuBois serves as Program Vice President for IDC's Storage practice, which includes Storage Systems, Software and Solutions research offerings, quarterly trackers, end-user research as well as advisory services and consulting programs. Ms. DuBois leads IDC's team of storage analysts responsible for identifying and analyzing vendor strategies, technology, market and customer trends affecting various market segments within the storage industry and data centers worldwide.

Prior to joining IDC, Ms. DuBois held various leadership positions in product management, software engineering and product marketing for companies such as EMC Corporation, StorageNetworks, Hitachi Data Systems and PictureTel Corporation. Ms. DuBois holds an undergraduate degree from Syracuse University and a Master's degree of Business Administration from Boston College.

Tom Lockhart, Hastings & Prince Edwards Counties Health Unit

Tom Lockhart is the IT Systems Manager for the Hastings & Prince Edward Counties Health Unit, with over 15 years of experience in both technical and IT management roles.  Prior to joining HPECHU, Tom served as Technical Services Manager for a large local VAR.  Tom has extensive experience leading and implementing project solutions in the areas of core infrastructure, messaging & unified communications, identity management, and server & desktop virtualization.