Smarsh®, the managed service leader in secure, innovative and reliable email archiving and compliance solutions, announced today that it was positioned as a Top Player in The Radicati Group’s “Cloud Information Archiving – Market Quadrant 2012” report.

Cloud Information Archiving, Radicati Market Quadrant 2012 (Photo: Business Wire)

The Radicati Group’s market analysis of hosted archiving solutions is a four quadrant system, which categorizes ten vendors as Top Players, Mature Players, Specialists or Trail Blazers, based on their market share and functionality. Smarsh was one of three providers to be recognized as Top Players, defined as “…the current leaders of the market, with products that have built up large customer bases…”

Cloud Information Archiving – Market Quadrant 2012 defines information archiving products and solutions as “…interactive, long-term storage of electronic business content, including: email, instant messages, social media, files, Microsoft SharePoint content and other structured and unstructured information. In addition to providing information archiving, these solutions provide fast, easy search and retrieval of information, allow organizations to set granular retention policies and provide the foundation for eDiscovery, legal hold, and Data Loss Prevention.”

“We appreciate the recognition as a Top Player in cloud information archiving by The Radicati Group,” said Stephen Marsh, CEO of Smarsh. “We’re seeing organizations increasingly turning to Smarsh as they recognize the benefits of hosted archiving solutions and a cost structure that addresses constraints on capital budgets. We’ve built a trusted reputation through years of experience with clients in highly regulated industries, and as communication methods continually evolve, we’re committed to providing our customers with one solution to archive everything.”

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About Smarsh

Smarsh® provides hosted solutions for archiving electronic communications, including email, instant messaging and social media platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. Founded in 2001, Smarsh helps organizations manage and enforce flexible, secure and cost-effective compliance and records retention strategies. For more information, visit www.smarsh.com or follow Smarsh at www.twitter.com/SmarshInc.

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