Arctera Enterprise Vault Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The overall experience has been satisfactory. EV Archiving is the best tool to store all your emails and documents securely. The vault is available in the cloud and we can access documents from anywhere. I have been using Veritas Vault to ensure that all messages I receive in my inbox are also saved in Veritas. It has interesting functions such as storing only copies as read-only in the safe, which does not allow accidental deletion of documents.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is not linked to a specific hardware component and can be installed on any platform. It is a perfect solution for basically all companies and the user experience is simple and easy to use. Another positive point is that it has become the best solution for archiving emails and secret documents. The points of attention revolve around the cost for companies with many users. If there is no planning, it can become a major cost.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We're using Veritas Enterprise Vault for Data Archiving for a long time, since 2009. At that time, storage arrays were not so 'intelligent' and it was hard to find one with deduplication and/or tiering capabilities. We had serious 'space issues' on our production storage and Enterprise Vault helped to move unused data from the production array to a cheaper one. We're still keeping it running, so we're able to retrieve archived data if necessary, but now it is dedicated to a single legacy Windows FileServer from the old times.

In the past, we also used to archive data from Lotus Domino databases using Enterprise Vault.

Likelihood to Recommend

Veritas Enterprise Vault is a very robust tool and it's still one of the most recognized players on data archiving. On the other hand, it is a tool that requires too much maintenance from the administrator. Especially because you're dealing with user data. In large environments/deployments, it would be better to have a dedicated Enterprise Vault administrator (someone with good knowledge of EV administration) to monitor the environment and take care of all the alerts. In our case, we didn't do this, and the price was very high. Due to some bad administration, we ended losing some archived data.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Symantec Enterprise Vault (EV) is used across the organization specifically for email archiving. We have been able to import and absorb all PSTs and provide a highly robust and secure EV store. The price was right for our size organization and the ability to search across the store when we get freedom of information requests is fantastic.

Likelihood to Recommend

Archiving emails is what we currently use the product for. It's great at this and I believe we could expand it to capture more of our file system (maybe in the future). I love the search capability, particularly at the administrator level when responding to FOI requests. It certainly cuts down the effort!

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

At our company we implemented FSA, SharePoint and Exchange. We initially deployed FSA with the intention of reducing total cost of storage in our DFS File Server environment. Our environment was complex with multiple copies of the data set so using FSA reduced our storage foot dramatically. This also helped us address our inability to backup our large environment with our DFS environment. We later implemented SharePoint and Exchange archiving to further reduce storage footprint.

Likelihood to Recommend

Not sure about Discovery DA in Enterprise Vault. Should attempt to leverage Clearwell to address the ediscovery pieces.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We were using Enterprise Vault to archive all email coming into our mail server prior to our migration to Office 365 E3. This allowed us to keep mailbox storage allocated to employees low. Employees could delete email with confidence that it was archived somewhere safe in case it needed to be accessed again in the future.

Likelihood to Recommend

I would recommend it to anyone that needs to archive employee emails. Whether it be simple record keeping or if you're required to hold email for litigation holds. The reason we no longer use Enterprise Vault is we moved our email service to the cloud, Office 365. Archiving is part of the service we pay for, and obviously we're no longer hosting email ourselves.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Enterprise Vault across our entire company (globally). We don't impose any quota limits on email so it allows us to keep our Exchange databases manageable and still allow our users to keep all the email they want.

Likelihood to Recommend

For our goal where we don't want to impose mailbox limits, it works great. Since you are offloading emails from Exchange to Symantec Enterprise Vault, I don't know how well it will work in a physical server as we are constantly adding more disk space and drives. In a virtual server, it's not too bad, but this might be a problem in a ph

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As a law firm we use Enterprise Vault to store all of our email older than 120 days and to archive data from our file shares. We do this for every attorney and staff person, allowing users to search their own archives and for Attorneys and managers to search staff archives as needed. In addition, we use Enterprise Vault to hold onto departed user and Attorney emails allowing us to meet the ABA best practices and any regulations for retention. Then using the retention periods we are able to purge out older emails from departed users in an organized and formalized process.

Likelihood to Recommend

I recommend Enterprise Vault, especially over native Exchange archiving when:

1. You have, or may need litigation holds and searches

2. There is a need to archive and set defined retention periods for Journaling

3. You have lots of duplicate large emails that you want to get deduplication of

4. You need/ want to be able to search attachment in addition to emails

5. You want or need Litigation searches or archive retention to be handled by a team separate from your Email team

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Symantec Enterprise for antivirus, backups and system images for disaster recovery. We use all three products listed across our global corporation for servers and Symantec Endpoint Protection for workstations.

These products address three key business problems:

1) Having the same antivirus software installed across all devices

2) Having daily and weekly backups of servers at every remote site (600+ sites)

3) Having the same product family our engineers are already familiar for our disaster recovery solution

Likelihood to Recommend

Many of the server edition modules for Symantec Enterprise are the best in the industry, bar none. I would select their products every time for servers.

However, there are better workstation options out on the market.

Key questions to ask during the selection process:

1) It really comes down to price, what type of budget do you have?

2) Extra modules for any product normally cost extra, so make sure you buy the modules you need when you need them

3) Do want all your modules to exist under one platform or are you only looking at the cost and do not care about mixing & matching?

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is used by my entire enterprise for email archival and compliance reasons. It has a twofold purpose, to keep mailbox sizes down and to keep a copy of messages for compliance requirements and retention.

Likelihood to Recommend

Enterprise Vault is useful with a well staffed IT organization as it requires having a dedicated support staff.