How much does an Enterprise Vault migration cost?
How much does an Enterprise Vault migration cost? Discover the factors that influence pricing, from data volumes and shortcuts to validation, Microsoft 365 and decommissioning.
When can you safely decommission Enterprise Vault?
Migrating email out of Enterprise Vault is only part of the job. Discover what organisations should validate before safely decommissioning their legacy archive environment.
Quest Archive Shuttle is approaching end of support. What should migration partners do next?
Quest Archive Shuttle support is due to end on 5 April 2027. What does that mean for migration partners, MSPs and organisations with legacy email archives still to migrate?
Your AI strategy has a blind spot: your historic email archive
Years of valuable corporate knowledge may still be trapped in legacy email archives. We look at why discovering, migrating, validating and governing historic email should form part of the conversation about AI readiness.
Your Exchange migration deadline may also be an archive migration deadline
Microsoft’s final Extended Security Update period for Exchange Server 2016 and 2019 ends in October 2026. But before switching off the old environment, organisations need to understand what still depends on it. We look at the often-overlooked connections between Exchange and legacy email archives, and why archive discovery should form part of your migration planning.
A successful email archive migration isn’t one where everything appears at the destination
Moving millions of archived emails is only part of a successful migration. Organisations also need to prove that every record that should have moved arrived intact, with its metadata, attachments and compliance context preserved. We look at why validation, exception handling and reconciliation are critical to a defensible email archive migration.
Enterprise Vault alternatives: what are your options before your next renewal?
Approaching an Enterprise Vault renewal? Renewing isn’t your only option. We explore the alternatives to Enterprise Vault, from migrating historic email into Microsoft 365 to moving to a modern cloud archive, reducing retained data and decommissioning legacy infrastructure.
Your next archive renewal could be your last: why 2026 is becoming the year organisations rethink legacy email archives
Many organisations are rethinking their legacy email archive strategy as licence renewals coincide with rising costs, Microsoft 365 maturity and growing interest in AI readiness. This article explores why an archive renewal is no longer just a procurement exercise, but an opportunity to modernise information governance, reduce vendor lock-in and simplify long-term archive management.
Your software vendor may change overnight. Your archive strategy shouldn’t.
Recent changes around Enterprise Vault have highlighted a wider challenge facing many organisations: software vendors change, but historic email often remains locked inside proprietary archive platforms. This article explores why data portability, archive migration and reducing vendor lock-in should form part of every long-term information governance strategy.
Your AI is only as good as the data it can access
Artificial Intelligence is transforming the workplace, but many organisations still have decades of valuable historic email locked away in legacy archive platforms. This article explores why archive migration is becoming an important part of AI readiness, helping organisations improve enterprise search, strengthen information governance and unlock the full value of their historic email data.