Sonian is the first hosted archiving provider to embrace cloud compute technologies to achieve superior performance and reliability at an affordable cost. The solution supports all major messaging platforms, including Exchange, GroupWise, Notes, IMail, Scalix and Zimbra. The service can be set up and configured in minutes.

"The demand for archiving and e-discovery continues to grow. Organisations of all sizes are faced with the ever-increasing challenges and complexities required to archive and manage their electronic content. Partly this is for corporate compliance - SEC, NASD, FRCP, SOX, HIPAA, etc. It's also to ready themselves for potential litigation", stated David Ferris of analyst firm Ferris Research. "The hosted (or SaaS) archiving model that Sonian is offering is an attractive way for organizations to quickly, securely and affordably address these problems."

Greg Arnette, Sonian Founder and CTO, stated: "I created Sonian as an answer to the budget pain mid-size organisations experience trying to implement a comprehensive, easy to use and affordable e-mail archive solution. Sonian is at the forefront in harnessing very reliable on-demand Grid computing to solve immediate IT pain points such as archiving. 2008 will be a breakout year for SaaS solutions because they are more economical, and in many cases more reliable and secure, then on-premise or appliance systems."