Intradyn is an email archiving vendor. Here’s a quick summary:
- Sells two products:
- Orca Email Archiver, aimed at organizations with up to about 500 employees. The active archive is not expandable beyond hard disk capacity (.5GB & 1TB), except you can offload older emails to tape and retain metadata searchable in the archive.
- Compliance Vault, aimed at organizations with 500 to 5,000+ employees. Can expand the active archive (70+TB) and processing power, RAM, etc., by adding xSeries clustered storage (shipping Q3 2008).
- Both are delivered as appliance.
- Main focus is email archiving; some instant messaging support provided.
- 75% of business is through OEMs such as Mirapoint, Secure Computing, and Tangent; 25% of business is direct.
- Financials not disclosed. Ferris Research estimates revenues at $5 million annually. CEO Brent Bowlby says revenues are growing at 100% annually.
- Competitors include Mimosa, Symantec, and sometimes ArcMail and Barracuda.
Strengths include:
- Works with many email systems: Exchange, Notes/Domino, GroupWise, pure POP/IMAP, etc.
- Outlook plugin provides very natural end-user experience. Includes tools for Exchange PST file migration and also restores back to message store.
- Support for Japanese characters; Korean and Chinese soon to be available.
- Use of Sony’s distribution channel.
- Attachment de-duplication; reduces the message store by about 80%.
- Can quickly bring on new OEM; experience in providing OEM support.