Pricing ranges from US$135 to $600 per backup device.

Symantec's announcement of Enterprise Vault 7.0 enables IT managers to archive and classify e-mail, instant messaging and other content in three ways:

1) Automated classification that stores data with 50 predetermined polices, such as personal, Sarbanes-Oxley sensitive and business sensitive by looking through message content and file attachments for keywords, association of words and strings of words.

2) User classification that enables end users to classify data upon creating it or receiving it.

3) Integration into deployed technologies for records management with software such as Documentum and IBM's OpenText document archiving software.