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Comparison between Symantec EV and GFI Email archiver

All reviews says that symantec enterprise vault is the best email archival solution. But its very expensive. Many ppl says that GFI email archiver will do the job in much lesser cost. but no one has a clear answer why r we paying extra for symantec.

Could any one please let me know what will we miss in terms of functionality and performace if we go for GFI compared to Symantec EV?

chuku

why r we paying extra for symantec? because it's a brand name
take the antivirus market - it is clear and proved for years that their product is same or less efficient with heavier foot print on the computer and yet they charge much more
people trust long time brand names in this industry, offten with a good reason but too many times it is just an empty cover for a used to be good but not anymore company or product
I personally have good experience with GFI's products (not the archive solution) and using EMC's archive solution

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Thanks for your comment Chuku.
You are correct. Even me too have good experience with GFI products.

I appreciate if you provide the the diference between Symantec EV and GFI email archiver, or what are the features missing in GFi.

coolgeek

One of my friends working with archival solution reported that GFI has issues with indexing large databases. It is slow in indexing and will cause outlook sluggish. According to him its a SOHO product not even for SMBs. My concern is if the index is corrupted it will bring down the system since outlook will not be able to access the archived emails. More than that outlook 2007 is notorious for its sluggishness with large .pst files. I am preparing a test exchange environment to test both of them.. will have to wait lil bit

Paul Solovyovsky

EV is a bit different than GFI. From my understanding GFI doesn't compress nor does it single instance. If you just want to keep a copy of everything and double down on you data, especially when archiving than you can use GFI. If you want to actually save storage in the long run EV is a better product

EV archives, compresses, single instance. It may do E-Discovery for putting together a court case, Compliance. It can also archvie Sharepoint, File Servers, PST migration (automatic). EV is an enterprise class solution while GFI is for smaller environments.

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