Sun Launches Content Management Solution

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (www.sun.com) today announced the Sun Compliance and Content Management Solution, a customer-ready system that integrates Sun's storage and compliance products, the expertise of its client solutions organization, and the Solaris Operating System with compliance software from AXS-One to deliver a cost-effective compliance solution for electronic records.

"In the past few months, complying with government regulations has become a top priority for organizations around the world," said Ed Valdez, vice president of Integrated Solutions at Sun Microsystems.

This collaboration between Sun and AXS-One helps customers address the growing tide of global regulatory compliance and business governance requirements such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, SEC 17a-4, Gramm-Leach-Bliley and their equivalents around the world.

Today's announcement extends Sun's existing content and compliance offerings that include the Sun Content Infrastructure System powered by Sun StorEdge SAM-FS, the Sun StorEdge Compliance Archiving System, and its Content and Compliance Client Solutions Practice.

Through integration with the AXS-One Compliance Platform, customers now have a single platform for the management of all corporate electronic records including e-mail and instant messages.

This solution helps customers address compliance requirements more quickly while mitigating the risks often associated with new implementations. Additional operational efficiencies are achieved with the delivery of a common repository for all compliance information, expedient access to information assets, broad scalability, and enhanced security.

According to a December 2004 AMR Research alert by John Hagerty, public companies are projected to spend $6 billion in 2005 to become Sarbanes-Oxley compliant.

A study published in the same month by IT market research and advisory firm IDC states that email archiving applications revenue is expected to top $180 million worldwide in 2004, up from just $33 million two years ago, and to continue to grow at a compound annual growth rate of over 50% through 2008.

Gartner is tracking the vendors in what they call the "e-mail active-archiving market" and believes the products in this category need to include archiving, indexing, hierarchical storage management (HSM) and basic records retention management, as well as special applications for meeting the needs of compliance officers and those tasked with producing records for legal discovery requests.