TransVault™ Minimizes Disruption of Notes to Exchange Migration
New tool reduces the costs and business impact of migrating user’s data.

London, UK, Inbox Outbox, 19th June 2007. UK messaging experts Essential has today announced its latest release of TransVault, an application designed to migrate email and other data types between different archive repositories and formats.

Version 1.2 of TransVault helps organizations migrate from Lotus Notes® to Microsoft® Exchange, enabling emails, encrypted items, calendars and address books to be converted and made seamlessly accessible from Exchange without disrupting end-users and with no email service down time. It also avoids moving what could amount to several Terabytes of Notes data onto new Exchange servers.

According to TransVault customer James Morris, Group Infrastructure Manager at leading global marketing services company, Aegis Media, “Using TransVault we are able to switch staff across to Exchange without impacting our email service or putting undue stress on our IT resources”

TransVault’s revolutionary approach takes advantage of popular archiving technology such as ZANTAZ Enterprise Archive Solution, enabling Notes data to be gathered centrally, optimized and then converted without impacting end user access to data. Complete items (or much smaller shortcuts to the archived version) are then put into the user’s new Outlook mailbox ready for when they log in.

Aegis Media's London office handles 4.5 million incoming messages per month. Growing pressure to retain electronic information for increasing periods of time to meet internal business requirements, and the requirements of regulations such as Sarbanes Oxley, meant the company's data stores were doubling in size year-on-year.

“It was important that we didn't populate our new Exchange servers with what could easily have been Terabytes of legacy Notes data. Using TransVault in combination with the ZANTAZ EAS archive solution we have been able to rationalize our email storage and we have already reclaimed 4 Terabytes,” continued Morris.

According to Barney Haye, Business Development Director at Essential, “TransVault helps organizations cope with whatever the future brings, ensuring they meet business and compliance goals without the costs and overhead of maintaining legacy systems and ‘islands’ of data. This release is especially useful for large migration projects as there’s no need to consolidate Domino servers prior to migration and everything happens whilst users are still connected to their Notes mailboxes. This approach saves a lot of expense, and being able to move users’ information to Exchange during the working day avoids lots of out-of-hours migration work. It also means the end user transitioning stage can take place in a less pressured environment, which can make a huge difference to the success of a migration project.”

About Essential Computing Ltd.
Established in 1990, UK based Essential Computing Ltd. is one of the world's foremost email management consultancies. Its messaging experience extends back over 11 years, when Essential implemented some of the first commercial SMTP messaging backbones; integrating proprietary mainframe and PC email systems with X.400 standards and the Internet. Over the last 7 years Essential has been involved in the implementation and support of some of the largest examples of successful archiving in the world, acting as a reseller and centre of excellence for training and support for leading content archiving and electronic disclosure solution provider, ZANTAZ. A Microsoft Gold Partner and IBM Business Partner, Essential also develops its own complementary technologies that help organizations get the most out of their e-mail investment.

For more information visit www.transvault.com or call Barney Haye on +44 (0)343199.

About Aegis Media
Aegis Media is part of Aegis Group plc, the £1.4bn media and market research group listed on the London Stock Exchange. Aegis Media's media and communications services businesses include media agencies Carat and Vizeum, out-of-home specialist Posterscope and leading digital marketing services network Isobar. In France, Carat is the leading media agency, and Aegis Media is a leading global independent network in Europe.

About ZANTAZ
ZANTAZ is the global leader in content archiving and electronic disclosure solutions. ZANTAZ solutions enable organizations to capture, classify, preserve and discover unstructured digital information—including email, IM, files, scanned documents, and other electronic records—and review and produce relevant documents in a manner that reduces operational risks and costs while complying with legal, regulatory and corporate policy requirements. ZANTAZ solutions are available as on-site software applications or on-demand software services, or a combination of both and include a broad set of professional services and integration support. ZANTAZ customers include 9 of the 10 top global law firms, 11 of the Fortune 25 and 14 of the top 20 Financial Securities firms. ZANTAZ, ranked by IDC and Radicati as the revenue leader in email archiving, received the highest-possible vendor ranking in the prestigious Socha-Gelbmann report on electronic disclosure.