The Linux Box has launched a new open source email archiving software system Enkive, which enables companies to better handle regulatory compliance and storage issues.
The company claims that the new email archiving and retrieval software empowers organisations to store email while retaining control over their IT infrastructure, information and processes. It helps organisations address issues of compliance with laws and regulations governing communications, as well as litigation support.
According to Linux Box, Enkive captures email messages as they arrive or are sent, to ensure they are retained before a worker can delete them in an email client. It permits recovery of email in support of an organisation’s retention policies and reduces storage costs by eliminating the capture of redundant messages and attachments.
Enkive uses Alfresco open source as a framework for document and record management and offers a full reporting service and flexible audit policy. Its systematic approach reconstructs messages in the search and retrieval process using the body of the message and its attachments, the company said.
Elizabeth Ziph, CEO of The Linux Box, said: We developed Enkive in response to client requests for an email archiving system with more dynamic management and security features than what was currently available.
“Open source archiving systems lack the ability to retain email based on policies that are time and content dependent. Enkive allows organisational decision makers to define and implement retention and retrieval policies to determine what to keep and what to purge.
