FileTek Inc., a data storage and data access systems provider, announced that it has signed a technology partnership and marketing agreement with kVault Software Inc. (KVS), an enterprise e-mail management systems software company.
According to FileTek, the agreement, which covers all North American markets, makes it possible for KVS Enterprise Vault(R) users to manage extremely large on-line archives, capable of retaining billions of e-mails.
“This is a very important and positive step for FileTek as it offers products to help the growing e-mail storage challenge many companies and civic organizations face,” said Dave Daughters, FileTek’s vice president of Marketing and Business Development. “KVS Enterprise Vault is an excellent product for e-mail storage and access, and when combined with StorHouse, users will benefit from an unprecedented archiving and retrieval solution. We very much look forward to working with KVS to help our current and future customers.”
“As companies look to reduce the load of ever-growing volumes of messages plaguing Exchange systems, it’s important that they have a compatible, comprehensive means to manage and store unstructured information,” said Mary Kay Roberto, vice president of North American Operations for KVS, Inc. “By combining our expertise in e-mail archiving with FileTek’s storage offerings, customers will reap the benefits of reduced cost and world-class long-term e- mail management that can scale with rapidly increasing information needs.”