GFI sells a variety of tools, one of which is MailArchiver for Exchange.
Summary of Capabilities
- Customer-installed archiving for MS Exchange.
- Available since December 2004.
Illustrative Pricing
- $324 for 25 seats; $1,296 for 200 seats; $4,320 for 500 seats; $3,780 for 1,000 seats.
- After first year, maintenance is 20% of purchase price.
- For details, go here.
Main Types of Prospective Customer
- U.S. and U.K.: Customers mainly driven by compliance and legal discovery.
- Rest of world: Storage management is the driver; mailbox size reduction and better performance.
- U.S. is getting a lot of interest from schools.
- Typical customer has 200 to 250 seats.
- H250 customers with over 1,000 seats; about 30 of them have 5,000+ seats.
- Also many small customers with 50 or so seats.
Competition
- At high end: Symantec Enterprise Vault.
- At SME end: Highly fragmented; perhaps the main one is Barracuda Message Archiver.
Competitive Strengths as Perceived by Company
- Reasonable functionality for extremely competitive price.
- Much easier to install and maintain than Symantec.
- Strong multilanguage support.
Finances
- Ferris Research estimates current revenues at about $10M annually for GFI's archiving products.
- GFI as a whole did $60M in calendar 2007.
Challenges
- Hosted archiving: Very easy to install and cheap to operate.
- Product's focus is on email; it will need to add support for other types of information, whether in motion or at rest.
Miscellaneous Comments
- V6, out in September 2008, will have Outlook support via a plug-in. Hitherto, archive access has been via a Web browser.
... David Ferris
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thats really nice data at least to me
thanks
John Jones
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