Microsoft Exchange Online Archiving vs. Smarsh

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Microsoft Exchange Online Archiving
Score 10.0 out of 10
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Exchange Online Archiving from Microsoft is a tool that helps the user solve archiving, compliance, regulatory, and eDiscovery challenges. Hosted on Microsoft globally redundant servers, with IT-level phone support 24 hours a day, seven days a week, Exchange Online Archiving is compatible with Exchange Server 2019, 2016, 2013, and 2010. It’s also available as an add-on service for mailboxes that are hosted online.N/A
Smarsh
Score 7.5 out of 10
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The Smarsh Enterprise Platform is a unified, cloud-native solution designed to future-proof enterprise communications data strategies. Its technologies include elastic compute, natural language processing, machine learning and artificial intelligence.N/A
Pricing
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Microsoft Exchange Online ArchivingSmarsh
Considered Both Products
Microsoft Exchange Online Archiving
Chose Microsoft Exchange Online Archiving
One of the advantages of Microsoft Exchange Online is that it eliminates the need for users to use a variety of online tools and programs for different functions. With a single domain, I'm able to supply all my employees with cross-platform email addresses. We can simply sync …
Chose Microsoft Exchange Online Archiving
It's a native solution, robust, and does my job well. Why do I need a paid third party product?
Chose Microsoft Exchange Online Archiving
We use Dropbox for normal uses (share files, share information that is not critical). Cryoserver was tested by the IT team and decided that if we have 365 Exchange, we do not need Cryoserver.
Chose Microsoft Exchange Online Archiving
The Microsoft Exchange Online Archiving tools are the best with multiple Cloud capabilities which enables the smooth running of all the data processing projects and securing entire business data and easy transfer of any data size across the Cloud services. Archiving functions …
Smarsh
Chose Smarsh
This was the only appliance of its kind that I have used. Other devices have different capabilities for web filtering such as the checkpoint firewalls, but none of them offered the overall solution that was deployed with this product at that time.
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Microsoft Exchange Online ArchivingSmarsh
Small Businesses
Cove Data Protection
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Score 9.9 out of 10
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Score 9.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Cove Data Protection
Cove Data Protection
Score 9.9 out of 10
Cove Data Protection
Cove Data Protection
Score 9.9 out of 10
Enterprises
Microsoft Exchange
Microsoft Exchange
Score 9.3 out of 10
Microsoft Exchange
Microsoft Exchange
Score 9.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
Microsoft Exchange Online ArchivingSmarsh
Likelihood to Recommend
8.3
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7.5
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Likelihood to Renew
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8.1
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User Testimonials
Microsoft Exchange Online ArchivingSmarsh
Likelihood to Recommend
Native solution. No third-party integration is required. Rock-solid. Actually many features require no extra cost (unless you want to use In-Place Hold / Litigation Hold) If you use Microsoft 365's Exchange Plan, or other similar Microsoft 365 products, I don't see any reason why you should not use this.
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This appliance is well suited for organizations that have a need to monitor, moderate, or log social networking site use or the use of any website. It is a very solid tool for any information security department to have at their disposal.
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Pros
  • Automatic archival of mail based on criteria.
  • Keep mailboxes to a manageable size.
  • Avoid having to manually delete older mail or export to PST.
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  • Discovery: It allows for easy discoveries by the compliance and cyber security departments.
  • Ethical walls: This keeps certain departments from talking to each other.
  • Very granular control. This is a big product meaning you can get very detailed with it.
  • Once it's configured and running, we hardly ever have any issues.
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Cons
  • Only its training curve is not that short.
  • To protective large amount of data may be trick to some users.
  • The import of big data capability can be still be advanced.
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  • Its configuration options were very large and required a good deal of time to learn all of the various settings.
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Likelihood to Renew
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It's the only product at this time that meets all of our requirements.
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Alternatives Considered
One of the advantages of Microsoft Exchange Online is that it eliminates the need for users to use a variety of online tools and programs for different functions. With a single domain, I'm able to supply all my employees with cross-platform email addresses. We can simply sync our calendars, which makes it easier to work together.
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This was the only appliance of its kind that I have used. Other devices have different capabilities for web filtering such as the checkpoint firewalls, but none of them offered the overall solution that was deployed with this product at that time.
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Return on Investment
  • I think the solution does not produce a real impact in the organization
  • I do not think that we have a real ROI
  • It does not change the overall business objectives
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  • Faster investigative work has led to increased employee efficiency when working on security investigations.
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