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StoredIQ's award-winning technology has helped a number of industry- leading companies streamline information management and eDiscovery processes to reduce the risk, complexity and cost of litigation. StoredIQ has recently launched version 5 of StoredIQ's Intelligent Information Management Platform, which can support Microsoft (News - Alert) Exchange 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint 2010. With the integration of StoredIQ's award-winning solution, these latest Microsoft products can be used for managing business critical information contained in email and file shares for litigation, information governance, compliance and risk management.

All of StoredIQ's Intelligent Information Management Platform data connectors were designed and built by StoredIQ from the ground up, optimized for performance, scalability, and depth, and with particular attention to the eDiscovery-centric issues of audit trails, chain of custody, and data/metadata preservation. The integration with latest versions of Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint will make it even more valuable.

StoredIQ has been originally designed for indexing, searching and retrieving email messages managed within prior versions of Microsoft Exchange. The same support will be provided by StoredIQ for Microsoft Exchange 2010. Here are the StoredIQ features for Exchange 2010:

• StoredIQ can manage all mail items stored within Exchange 2010 including calendar items, notes, tasks and contacts.
• StoredIQ is able to index both private and public mailboxes and can do so on a per mailbox or per server level.
• StoredIQ integrates with Exchange 2010 in-place legal hold functionality, as well as the new Exchange 2010 Dumpster, providing unabridged visibility and access into corporate email, including email that has been "permanently" deleted by the user.

Nick Patience, the research director, information management for The 451 Group (News - Alert) summarized the StoredIQ features for Exchange 2010.

 "With deep platform integration into Exchange 2010, StoredIQ taps into and augments new native Exchange eDiscovery features including legal hold and the redesigned dumpster," Patience said.

StoredIQ for SharePoint 2010

As in previous versions of SharePoint, StoredIQ can either copy or move unstructured data into SharePoint, populating attributes such as authors, title, subject or setting retention values.

This capability can accelerate deployment of a new content management system by automating data location, classification and transfer.

StoredIQ can also copy or move data housed within SharePoint to another repository using automated legal hold retention policies, improving the overall eDiscovery process.

For SharePoint 2010 and Exchange 2010 users, StoredIQ brings about many benefits.

• StoredIQ simplifies connection to data sources.
• StoredIQ's connectors are agentless, therefore do not require installation of any software on the data source, nor any additional, interceding hardware such as a gateway.

Enterprises do not have to make extra investment on StoredIQ's connectors, including those for Microsoft Exchange 2010 and SharePoint 2010, as they are included in the Intelligent Information Management Platform.

StoredIQ's connector set is one of the broadest in the industry, and includes integrations with email systems and archives, storage file systems, workstations, NAS systems, retention platforms, document management platforms, directory services, and WORM archives.