AXS Link for .PST Management™
High Performance Policy-Driven .PST File Management and Elimination

Microsoft Exchange users create personal folder files (.PST files) for a number of reasons including:

• Corporate mailbox quota limits
• Retaining backup copies of their e-mail
• Segmenting personal and business communications
• Offline local search and data mining.

According to some calculations, half of all e-mails are stored in .PST files. .PST files account for a large and growing volume of storage that is unmanaged and uncontrolled. In addition to storage costs, .PST files also represent a substantial increase in information risk and can create a multitude of problems, such as:

• Violation of data retention regulations, exposing organizations to the risk of monetary and punitive damages
• Increased e-discovery and litigation costs: .PST files are usually stored on users' local hard drives, with no centralized view or management; finding, reviewing and providing them in response to an e-discovery request can be a time-consuming and expensive process
• Impact on IT resources as support staff struggle to find and restore lost or damaged .PST files on local and networked drives
• Escalating storage and storage management costs: .PST files can account for up to 40% of all high-cost, near-line storage
• Reduced employee productivity: time spent by employees in managing mailbox quotas and creating .PST files accounts for approximately 15 minutes, per day, per employee

Organizations should aim to manage and eradicate .PST files, by migrating them to a secure, central archive that offers policy-driven ingestion, retention and disposition. Full-text indexing facilities search and retrieve .PST file content once archived.

AXS-Link for .PST Management™, an integrated component of
AXS-Link for Microsoft Exchange™. AXS-One's high performance e-mail archiving solution for Microsoft Exchange allows organizations to process, manage and securely store unlimited volumes of .PST files. By leveraging high performance workflow, the entire .PST file collection, management and archive process can be fully managed and automated and an audit trail of all migration activity provided. AXS-Link for .PST Management has been developed to reduce the risk and cost associated with .PSTs, to support the legal discovery and compliance process, as well as reduce manual, administrative tasks.