Smarsh, a provider of hosted solutions for archiving electronic communications, has added a new text messaging archiving platform to its suite of products. The mobile message capture and archiving solution, deployed at both the server and handset client level, is powered by technology from TextGuard, a provider of mobile device communication compliance solutions.

Mobile messaging content, like other forms of electronic communication, is subject to electronic discovery rules which require organizations to manage and produce electronically stored information in a timely and complete manner during litigation. Organizations in highly-regulated industries, such as government or financial services, are obligated to preserve communications and to produce these messages when necessary.

With the new mobile messaging module, Smarsh provides firms with a disaster recovery solution for all smart phones in the organization. The platform immediately backs up messages, and associated data can be retrieved if an individual device is lost or stolen. The solution provides archiving for SMS text messages, BlackBerry PIN-to-PIN communication and BlackBerry Messenger content. It supports BlackBerry, Android and Windows Mobile operating systems (iPhone support will be coming soon).

The Smarsh suite of hosted electronic message archiving solutions also includes email, instant messaging, and social media.