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Over 1 million emails monthly had inundated their servers, and caused storage requirements to explode. In addition, SEC regulations require that Baird archive all email communications using non-writeable, non-erasable storage media (WORM), and be able to retrieve emails in a timely manner. A typical search request to compile an archive of email activity for a group of users would take a week of an administrator's time. Baird needed a cost-effective solution to store, manage, archive and retrieve emails in a timely fashion, while minimizing email server congestion and ensuring SEC compliance.
EmailXtender provided Baird with adequate storage space while maintaining system reliability and performance. In addition, fulfilling search requests now took only 5 to 10 minutes. With full-text search and retrieval, integrated WORM storage capability and email server management functionality, EmailXtender was the key to solving their problems.
Proven Results
"It was imperative that we reduce the time needed to retrieve stored emails from five days to five minutes," said Mr. Brian Brylow, Senior Vice President, COO Information Technology RW Baird. "We are now able to access archived emails within seconds of a request."
EmailXtender helped Baird boost productivity of their network staff and reduce the cost of performing archive searches. In addition, implementation of EmailXtender has given Baird administrators the ability to proactively monitor email communications for potentially damaging content.
About R.W. Baird & Co.
As one of the country's largest regional investment banking and brokerage firms, Robert W. Baird & Co. (Baird) is a member of the New York Stock Exchange and a full service investment firm serving individual, institutional, corporate and public clients. Based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with more than 80 offices in 16 states, the company traded 2.8 billion shares of stock for individual and institutional clients in 2000 - an average of 11.2 million shares a day.
This case study was originated by OTG Software. OTG was acquired by
Legato Systems, Inc. in May, 2002. Any reference to what were formerly
known as OTG solutions and/or services, or the OTG name may have been
changed to reflect the acquisition.
Published with permission from Legato Systems.
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