Alternative Assets has Partnered with Smarsh

Why Choose Smarsh?

Victor Park and Todd G. Schwendiman of Alternative Assets have been long-time users of Smarsh for hosted archiving services and have found us to be the best provider and industry leader for the technology compliance needs of broker-dealers, hedge funds, investment advisors, FINRA members and others throughout the financial industry.

Alternative Assets is partnering with Smarsh to provide hosted solutions for archiving electronic communications, including email, IM and social media platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.

Email archiving and message management solutions from Smarsh are designed to help your organization meet the myriad challenges created by the proliferation of email and electronic messages and to alleviate the shortcomings of legacy on-premise archiving technologies. The integrated platform enables you to:

• Enable Compliance and Legal department staff to assume the majority of the day-to-day operations and administration of the message supervision, legal discovery and legal hold processes.
• Achieve a significant reduction in total cost of ownership. Eliminate expensive storage at both your primary and secondary data centers, and reduce IT personnel costs for support, administration and maintenance.
• Migrate your archive and legacy data quickly and easily with the support of a dedicated on-boarding team.
• Automatically realize any system upgrades/enhancements without additional upgrade or maintenance costs.
• Manage email server and mailbox growth and leverage the mailbox management benefits provided with individual access to the email archive.
• Automate and implement legal holds, retention policies and customized matter classifications.
• Leverage Smarsh experience working with firms managing compliance obligations from the SEC, FINRA, IIROC, FSA and other regulatory bodies.
• Identify, manage and mitigate risk through early case assessment. Take a proactive approach to managing your electronic data and save your organization time and money in litigation and internal investigations. Avoid spoliation of evidence sanctions as dictated by recent decisions and existing case law.
• Receive best-in-class audit and e-discovery support during regulatory audits and reviews.
• Produce archived data quickly and securely. Results of a message search can be encrypted and downloaded, produced securely by Smarsh, and/or sent directly to any third party, such as outside counsel, upon request.
• Enforce governance policies for organizational use of email, social media, instant messaging and other new and emerging electronic communication platforms.
• Protect the organizational knowledge in your email system and the flow of valuable messages with trusted email continuity and disaster recovery solutions.

Smarsh email and message archiving solutions are designed to help you manage the challenges created by the proliferation of organizational electronic messages. Sign up today!

If you would like to get a personal reference or have questions about Smarsh from a user perspective feel free to call Todd G. Schwendiman, Managing Director of Alternative Assets at (212) 832-7600 and he would be happy to speak with you.

The Smarsh Software-as-a-Service Deployment Model

Delivering Software-as-a-Service solutions that satisfy the most cutting-edge messaging compliance issues.

Security & Privacy

Multiple physical, procedural and technical safeguards are in place to protect and limit access. Smarsh data centers are redundant, geographically-dispersed and SSAE 16 audited. All systems are protected by multi-tiered firewalls and proactively monitored within the Smarsh Network Operations Center. Encrypted access to your data is granted only to your firm’s approved system administrators.

Performance

• Free up storage capacity | Forrester Research survey data indicates that storage capacity requirements are growing between 20 and 40 percent each year.¹ By "off-loading" data, your company can free up valuable storage space and optimize server performance. Remove content from your messaging server and migrate it to an archiving platform.
• Global availability | Full platform functionality is available securely 24-7 via the Internet.
• Search and produce data quickly | Smarsh offers the storage, database and indexing expertise to ensure optimal search and retrieval times, even as the volume of your archive grows.
• Seamless updates | Rather than waiting for the release and installation of your software’s next version, Smarsh platform updates are introduced regularly. 

Deployment

• Rapid on-boarding | Your firm can be up and running on the Smarsh platform in days or weeks rather than a long-term phased timeline. With its diverse and growing client base, Smarsh has encountered a variety of system integration scenarios and manages the deployment process for you.
• Flexible integration | The unique Smarsh architecture is platform-agnostic and integrates with on-premise (Microsoft Exchange, Lotus and Novell) and Software-as-a-Service (Google Apps for Business and Microsoft Office 365) messaging platforms.

Total Cost of Ownership

• Predictable pricing | The Smarsh pricing model is not based on storage or disk space, significantly reducing costs for traditional email backup. Pricing is predictable, easy to budget and does not require large capital expenditures.
• No software/hardware to maintain | Smarsh manages all hardware and software within its data centers, and upgrades are automatic and included as part of the managed service.
• Minimized internal IT operating burden | Maintain access and ownership of all of your information, and liberate your IT team to focus on core competencies. Smarsh offers support and training as part of its service agreement.

¹ In Search of Information Governance in the Enterprise (blog). Forrester Research, Inc. 31 March 2010.