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(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Hosting provider Rackspace Hosting (www.rackspace.com) has launched a new solution for automatically keeping a long-term backup of incoming and outgoing email for hosted email customers.
Rackspace Archiving is now available for hosted Microsoft Exchange and Rackspace email customers, according to its Wednesday announcement at HostingCon in Washington DC. Built on the Rackspace Cloud, Rackspace Archiving currently features unlimited storage and unlimited data retention time, as well as comprehensive search functionality, data storage in more than one location, and complete control panel administration.
"With email making up the lions' share of business communications today, the amount of email is vast and unmanageable for many companies," Rackspace email & apps general manager Pat Matthews said. "With the addition of Rackspace Archiving we are delivering a best-in-class business email solution to meet this growing customer need."
Providing peace of mind was one of the core considerations built into the new archiving service. Customers, for instance, can retrieve an email at any time using powerful search functionality, such as when an employee accidentally deletes an important email, or when emails need to be retrieved for a discovery request.
With straightforward pricing at $3 per mailbox per month, Rackspace hopes that its archiving will replace many in-house archiving system or other online storage solutions that are more costly.
"We believe that businesses that manage their own email in-house will see that a hosted email solution is not only more cost effective and more reliable than managing email themselves, it is also the better choice for backup and retrieval of their business-critical email," Matthews said. "With Rackspace Archiving, we want our customers to truly experience worry-free email."
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