HOUSTON, US: PivotStor, a company dedicated to delivering best-of-breed data protection, coupled with proven reliability and cost-effective performance, received major plaudits for its newly-introduced EP-Series e-mail management appliance at last week's SAN Storm conference, held in Houston.

The 14th annual SAN Storm conference was conducted by Unique Digital, Inc., a global provider of data protection solutions.

Jack Corrao, PivotStor's President and Chief Operating Officer, told SAN Storm attendees that as e-mail has emerged as the ubiquitous Internet application, it has become more important than ever for companies of all sizes to manage every phase of their e-mail as a part of their regulatory compliance needs. This may includes archiving both incoming and outgoing messages, to encrypting messages and filtering the thousands of incoming spam e-mails that infect servers on a daily basis. He noted that many systems administrators understand that compliance is a challenge they must address, but are unclear on the best way to approach it. PivotStor's EP-Series, he said, solves those challenges in a simply installed and unified manner.

With the ability to accommodate up to more than 2,500 users, the EP-Series of appliances is ideally suited for SMB to SME organizations with base prices ranging from under $1300 to just under $30,000. The EP-Series is a highly scalable solution enabling companies to grow and fully protect and manage their e-mail while ensuring compliance with a full range of e-discovery, government and industry regulations, including Sarbanes-Oxley, Basel II, the UK Data Protection Act and more. Available in book-sized desktop, 1U and 2U rackmount configurations, the EP-Series easily and powerfully handles their e- mail archiving requirements; it is capable of processing up to 830,000 e-mail messages every day, or more than three billion a year.

"Everyone who attends the SAN Storm conference agrees that managing e-mail can easily become a never-ending, confusing integration maelstrom. Multiple requirements too often mandate multiple point solutions, all of which must be jerry-rigged to work together," said Crystal Rich-Harrison, Unique Digital's vice president of sales. "PivotStor has clearly moved one step beyond its competitors in bringing to the market an all-in-one device that is easy to install and run, incorporating five key functions, and making it possible for companies to easily handle their e-mail load. It's a pleasure to recommend the EP-Series to our customers."

Since 1993, SAN Storm has regularly drawn vendors and end-users together to analyze the latest developments in storage and computing technology and solutions. The show allows attendees to be surrounded by new technologies, informative representatives, and technical seminars presented by the leading technology companies.