The Top 10 Email Archiving Solutions For Businesses

ArcTitan provides full compliance with industry standards, including GDPR. Emails can be easily searched and retrieved, and are fully immutable when stored in the email archive. Pricing is flexible and based on a ‘pay-as-you-go’ model, and ArcTitan promises to help organizations save up to 75% on email storage space, reducing the costs and storage on mail servers. ArcTitan is simple to deploy and manage. Admins can configure the system from within the Outlook client, and easily edit retention policies and mailbox quotas. Searching the archive itself is also straightforward, with a search console that makes it easy to locate the right emails on both desktop and mobile.

ArcTitan provides a number of benefits over native archiving within Office 365, including enhanced email search and storage, reduced complexity and reduced time spent on deployment and ongoing management. Customers praise ArcTitan for its speed, scalability, and the fact the service has no storage limitations, helping to save on archiving costs. This also means that ArcTitan is a strong solution for organizations looking to store large amounts of email, such as schools and universities. ArcTitan is an easy to manage archiving solution, which we recommend to SMBs, enterprises and MSPs who are looking for comprehensive archiving available both on-premise and in the cloud.

The service integrates well with both on-premise Exchange and O365, which makes it easier for end-users to navigate. It’s important to note however that emails are only stored for ten years in one archive.

Proofpoint offer Essentials as a packaged deal with a number of products. Alongside Email Archiving, it includes email encryption and an email secure gateway. Their Essentials Archive is a basic version of their Enterprise archive. Proofpoint has aimed this product at small to midsized companies. The service focusses on streamlining and ease of use. End users get full access to their stored email communications, allowing them to easily manage their communications. Proofpoint also guarantee that searching the archive will take less than 20 seconds. The service integrates well with both on-premise Exchange and O36, which makes it easier for end users to navigate. It’s important to note however that emails are only stored for ten years in one archive.

MailMeter is fully legally compliant, with eDiscovery, retention and legal hold features that ensure all emails are securely stored, searchable and tamper-proof. Users are able to search past emails in seconds, filtering by sender, message content, message tags (which can be customized), attachments and more. This search tool is available for both admins and end users and is easy to use without any additional training, allowing users to quickly find past emails that have been lost or accidentally deleted. Retention policies can be set for users, departments, key phrases within emails and attachments to help organizations easily meet their compliance obligations.

MailMeter is available both on-premise and in the cloud, and is a strong solution for archiving emails within Office 365. The service helps to reduce costs for O365 users, as it works with all licenses, rather than the more expensive E3 or E5 licenses which are typically required for archiving. It also helps to reduce complexity and data-loss when archiving within O365, due to the restricted retention policies natively offered by Microsoft. MailMeter also provides high-quality technical support, with responsive support teams dedicated to the US, Europe and the Middle East. MailMeter offer a strong archiving service, well suited to organizations of all sizes looking for a comprehensive archiving solution for compliance, public records and eDiscovery on email messages.

The platform also creates reports which show who has accessed the archive and when. This can help your business stay compliant or support legal cases. They offer features which give users access to their own archive, which is useful for them to manage old clients.

Mimecast is a popular choice among clients, who highly praise the quick search times and ease of use of the archive, even on mobile. This is a market leading service, which is an ideal solution to your archiving needs.

You can read our full review of the Mimecast Cloud Archive here.

Global Relay guarantees customers full legal compliance, meaning that their archives are completely tamper proof. They offer flexible access to the archive based on your role within the organization. This can be useful if managers need to be able to access the archive, or someone in HR, but not everyone. The archive is easy to search, offering a multi-lingual interface and quick search times. In addition, Global Relay offers very specific email searches to help you find one particular email out of an archive of thousands.

One thing to be aware of is that leaving this service can be expensive, as you will need to export large amounts of emails. However, Global Relay is a great option for large business who need an easy to use and fully featured service.

You can read the full review we’ve published on Global Relay here.

This platform is well suited for companies looking to meet legal compliance regulations. For example, it’s very easy to export emails in bulk from the archive, and pass them on to a third party. It’s also impossible to tamper with emails, even when being exported. This makes Barracuda Cloud Archive an ideal platform for companies who need to ensure they are legally covered, such as those in the financial sector.

You can read our full review of Barracuda Cloud Archive here.

Microsoft Archiving is popular with customers for this reason, but also because the service is cost-effective. It’s very easy to add this option on to your current Exchange or O365 solution. This service also offers a good range of features. You can set retention tags, so you can choose specific emails to be archived. There is also built in auditing to show who is accessing the archive. Microsoft also offer unlimited data storage at no extra cost.

Microsoft Exchange Online Archiving is an ideal platform for smaller companies who need basic email archiving. It’s cost-effective and easy to use.

You can read Expert Insights’ full review of Microsoft here.

This platform is popular with customers for it’s ease of use, and how easy it is to deploy. It’s also cost effective, for the advanced features on offer. Another element of this platform customers like is how great the support is, although it’s important to note the level of support on offer is dependent on the service level you purchase.

Proofpoint Essentials offers a powerful service, which is easy to use and has multiple customisable policies. We’d recommend this solution to larger companies who want a solid service at cost effective pricing.

You can read our full review of Proofpoint Enterprise Archive.

Barracuda offers a good service for small businesses, which is cost effective and bundled with a range of other features. It’s a good option for businesses looking for basic archiving alongside a range of other security products.

You can read the full review of Barracuda Essentials Archiving here.

Smarsh offer premium customers the ability to archive instant messages such as Bloomberg or Slack. It has a fully featured user interface which makes it ideal for businesses who regularly need to access months old email communications.

Smarsh is a good option for companies that need the most advanced archiving available. We recommend this service to users who are able to take advantage of its granular controls and advanced features.

You can read our full review of Smarsh here.