Success Stories for all GWAVA products

 As a healthcare foundation, Prinsenstichting needs a secure and reliable archiving system for their email communication. Their data is sensitive and needs to be protected long-term. Prinsenstichting had been using the M+Archive solution.  

But as their needs quickly expanded, Prinsenstichting began to run into more and more problems. M+Archive was not providing the reliability it needed for its critical data. It did not retrieve all of the archived email that was requested and the system required a great deal of time and attention  to stay operational. Its performance was also unacceptably  slow. So they decided to search for another solution.  

Prinsenstichting’s long term ICT partner Tmi3 recommended the Retain solution from GWAVA. After looking at the solution, Prinsenstichting decided to make the move to Retain. The migration went very smoothly and quickly, even though they had copious amounts of data which had to be migrated to the new archiving solution. 

“We had a special challenge that had to be addressed. The amount of data was huge, but we had to migrate it in a very short time frame. In total, we migrated 3.2 million mails in 5 days along with over 7.2 million associated documents. Because we used many machines, we made it happen in this short time frame,” states Albert Stevens, Cluster Manager ICT  for Prinsenstichting.  

In the end, it took only 2½ weeks to make the  move completely from M+Archive to GWAVA Retain which included the migration of all of their old archives into the new Retain system. Another very important side-effect: The storage size was extremely reduced and went down from approx. 700 GB to 200 GB after Prinsenstichting migrated from M+Archive to GWAVA Retain. 

“I am absolutely satisfied with GWAVA and Tmi3. They are delivering big knowledge and flexibility. They are thinking of me and always delivering the right solution. The fast communication between GWAVA’s engineers and their development department was fantastic. It’s wonderful to see that things can be done in a different way—the  right way!” says Albert Stevens.     

Prinsenstichting has 25 subsidiaries which feed into a single network with broadband via VPN. They have more than 35 servers, 380 digital workplaces and 500 GroupWise users. The IT infrastructure is a mixed environment – a combination of Novell 6.5 and Windows 2003 servers. They use eDirectory as well as Active Directory and all databases are SQL 2005.