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When can you safely decommission Enterprise Vault?

by Jeff Downs | Oct 7, 2026

Migrating email out of Enterprise Vault is an important milestone. But it isn’t necessarily the end of the project. For many organisations, the real objective is to decommission Enterprise Vault completely: removing the infrastructure, licences, operational overhead...

Quest Archive Shuttle is approaching end of support. What should migration partners do next?

by Jeff Downs | Oct 2, 2026

The email archive migration market is changing again. Quest has published lifecycle dates for Archive Shuttle which show current versions 11.4 and 11.5 moving to limited support on 6 November 2026, with support discontinued on 5 April 2027. For organisations and...

Your AI strategy has a blind spot: your historic email archive

by Jeff Downs | Sep 23, 2026

Organisations are investing heavily in artificial intelligence, Microsoft 365 and new ways to extract value from corporate information. But there is a potential blind spot. Years – sometimes decades – of organisational knowledge may still be sitting in legacy email...

Your Exchange migration deadline may also be an archive migration deadline

by Jeff Downs | Aug 24, 2026

For organisations still running Exchange Server 2016 or 2019, the clock is now very definitely ticking. Both versions reached end of support in October 2025. Microsoft subsequently introduced an Extended Security Update programme to give organisations additional time...

Your software vendor may change overnight. Your archive strategy shouldn’t.

by Jeff Downs | Jul 16, 2026

The recent transition of Enterprise Vault to Arctera has prompted many organisations to review their archive strategy. For some, the trigger has been licensing costs. For others, it’s uncertainty about future product direction, support models or long-term roadmap. But...

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