U.K. insurance firm Thomas Miller & Co. Ltd. expects to slash the cost of storing its emails by nearly half and ease the strain on its IT staff, thanks to new email management software deployed in its London data center.
Given that the insurance industry is one of the most tightly regulated markets in terms of compliance and data retention, it comes as no surprise that management of information is top priority for Thomas Miller.
Insurance companies are legally required to keep all email for seven years. With some employees mailboxes straining under the weight of 30,000 emails, systems were slow and the IT staff were spending much of their time searching for misplaced messages.
But messaging consultancy Integritis Ltd. examined the problem last summer and proposed EmailXtender from Legato Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: LGTO) as the solution. Although perhaps not as glamorous as the 5th Cavalry, the software was deployed in late 2003 to capture emails across six Lotus Domino and five HP/Compaq servers.
Thomas Millers IT services manager, Richard Lewin, and his staff are now looking forward to a much easier life. Going forward, it will really reduce the amount of time that the Notes administrators are spending firefighting disk storage space problems, Lewin says.
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