The SearchExchange.com Archiving and Compliance Products of the Year Silver Award belongs to Fortiva Suite from Fortiva Inc.. The Fortiva Suite is a managed e-mail archiving product that is designed to help organizations meet compliance, legal discovery and storage management challenges.

The Fortiva Suite helps businesses reduce their exposure to e-mail-related liability and risk by securely storing a compliant, unalterable and fully searchable copy of every e-mail that is processes through their corporate messaging systems.

The Fortiva Suite provides scalability, low overhead costs and full technical support like any outsourced solution. However, to our judges it stood out because of its unique "hybrid" model, which solves two big concerns with outsourcing this aspect of IT -- data security and product integration.

One judge commented, "The Fortiva Suite is very innovative. This offering uses a hybrid model with the appliance installed on premise and data stored off site. This creates strong security for data both in transit and at rest."

Fortiva Suite is the only outsourced e-mail archiving solution that guarantees the privacy and security of customer data. With its proprietary DoubleBlind Encryption technology, Fortiva ensures that no one outside the customer's network can access the content of archived e-mail.

Pricing: The Fortiva Suite licensing fees are on a per-user basis ranging from $2 to $4 per user, per month depending on the number of users. Bundled storage costs start at $500 per month for 200 GB.

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