Back to Case StudiesTop 5 U.S. Bank Achieves Compliance, Cuts Costs, and Improves Data Access with ZL Unified Archive®
ZL’s Unified Archive® was chosen as the solution to meet the combined requirements of scalability, flexibility and functionality for one of the world’s largest financial institutions.
Overview:
As one of the largest providers of financial services in the U.S. and abroad, with over 40 international offices, this global giant required a massively scalable solution to handle a repository of billions of documents. Furthermore, in order to remain compliant, millions of messages had to be rapidly processed and stored per day from multiple locations following a complex retention policy.
Challenges:
The Top 5 U.S. Bank’s needs included:
- Support for 165,000 mailboxes, receiving over 10 million email messages per day.
- Compliance with SEC and NASD regulations, with full retention management.
- Storage on WORM type media.
- Improve email server performance.
- Reduce storage load.
- Timely migration of hundreds of terabytes of data from legacy archives.
- Rapid search across all existing electronic content.
Benefits:
After the evaluation, ZL’s Unified Archive® was chosen as the solution to meet the combined requirements of scalability, flexibility and functionality with the capability to:
- Search in seconds across a repository of almost 2 billion documents.
- Complete index recovery within hours to ensure compliance and data access requirements.
- Scale to 10 million messages per day.
- Enable pro-active E-Discovery and Early Case Assessment.
- Ensure and streamline SEC and NASD compliance with 100% data capture and advanced review tools.
- Employ “straight-through-processing.” All actions conducted against data in ZL are performed in a singular process — eliminating errors, preserving the Digital-Chain of Custody, and dramatically improving archiving throughput.
- Integrate large deployments of both Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes.
