EV About

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Symantec Enterprise Vault (EV) is a file and email archiving product of Symantec Corporation for use in larger organisations. Enterprise Vault also provides an archiving framework that enables the discovery of content held within email, file system and collaborative environments for legal or compliance purposes. Enterprise Vault can also help reduce the amount of storage required for email of file systems.

Enterprise Vault manages content using automated, policy-controlled archiving to online stores for active retention and seamless retrieval of information. The built-in search and discovery capabilities of Enterprise Vault are complemented by specialized client applications for corporate governance, risk management and legal protection.

According to the company, Enterprise Vault is now an integral part of Symantec's 'Information Foundation' suite, which is a drawing together of security and archiving technologies intended to help customers deal with information risk associated with conducting business via email, and "...provides a number of ways to control the flow of data with tools designed to identify, classify, and control corporate data held in databases, e-mails, IM, and file systems. The software can also review, hold, release, and audit e-mail, IM, and Web communications based on pre-determined policies