Global Relay Archive vs. Smarsh

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Global Relay Archive
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Global Relay, headquartered in Vancouver, offers Global Relay Archive, a system for managing and archiving unstructured data (e.g. IM, email, etc) in a compliant manner.N/A
Smarsh
Score 7.5 out of 10
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The Smarsh Enterprise Platform is a unified, cloud-native solution designed to future-proof enterprise communications data strategies. Its technologies include elastic compute, natural language processing, machine learning and artificial intelligence.N/A
Pricing
Global Relay ArchiveSmarsh
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Global Relay ArchiveSmarsh
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Global Relay ArchiveSmarsh
Top Pros

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Top Cons
Best Alternatives
Global Relay ArchiveSmarsh
Small Businesses
Amazon S3 Glacier
Amazon S3 Glacier
Score 9.1 out of 10
Amazon S3 Glacier
Amazon S3 Glacier
Score 9.1 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Barracuda Essentials
Barracuda Essentials
Score 9.2 out of 10
Barracuda Essentials
Barracuda Essentials
Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises
Microsoft Exchange
Microsoft Exchange
Score 8.6 out of 10
Microsoft Exchange
Microsoft Exchange
Score 8.6 out of 10
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User Ratings
Global Relay ArchiveSmarsh
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(1 ratings)
7.5
(2 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
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8.1
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
Global Relay ArchiveSmarsh
Likelihood to Recommend
Global Relay
If you have a finance company and are bound by certain compliance rules then Global Relay is the gold standard. It does cost more than typical Exchange archival solutions so regular non-compliance organizations can look at other options. We have had multiple events that required the use of Global relay some simple some much more complicated. They came through every time.
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Smarsh
This appliance is well suited for organizations that have a need to monitor, moderate, or log social networking site use or the use of any website. It is a very solid tool for any information security department to have at their disposal.
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Pros
Global Relay
  • legal searches
  • archive of all communications coming and going
  • extraction of data and delivery without users ever touching it
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Smarsh
  • Discovery: It allows for easy discoveries by the compliance and cyber security departments.
  • Ethical walls: This keeps certain departments from talking to each other.
  • Very granular control. This is a big product meaning you can get very detailed with it.
  • Once it's configured and running, we hardly ever have any issues.
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Cons
Global Relay
  • Pricing is a bit high for data extraction
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Smarsh
  • Its configuration options were very large and required a good deal of time to learn all of the various settings.
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Likelihood to Renew
Global Relay
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Smarsh
It's the only product at this time that meets all of our requirements.
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Alternatives Considered
Global Relay
Exchange Online Archiving is fine but the gold standard for finance is Global Relay. Most clients will go outside of MS for compliance-related archiving.
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Smarsh
This was the only appliance of its kind that I have used. Other devices have different capabilities for web filtering such as the checkpoint firewalls, but none of them offered the overall solution that was deployed with this product at that time.
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Return on Investment
Global Relay
  • The business can responsed appropiately to legal actions as required by law
  • The business can remain functioning
  • The product has worked 100% of the time
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Smarsh
  • Faster investigative work has led to increased employee efficiency when working on security investigations.
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