IBM has released a new family of products for archiving e-mail, classifying content, and searching multiple information sources—independent of where and how the content was created, processed, and archived. IBM Content Collection and Archiving products are designed to help clients take back control and unlock the business value of their content, while enforcing regulatory compliance and operational policies and reducing total cost of ownership.

The new family of products deliver comprehensive content collection and archiving capabilities that make information more accessible, manageable, and, ultimately, usable by making it easier to locate and analyze information and to extract knowledge and insights.

IBM Content Collection and Archiving offerings will help clients move beyond e-mail archiving to provide organizations with comprehensive management capabilities for virtually all their business content, including file systems, Lotus Quickr, Microsoft SharePoint, instant messages, and other information. These products offer more advanced functionality to meet new legal eDiscovery and records management requirements as well as de-duplication and integration with records retention services, helping to reduce storage and electronic discovery costs.