According to Art Gilliland, a senior director product marketing at Symantec, Enterprise Vault 7.0 offers IT managers rules-based administration so that large companies running archives for multiple business units can preset access authorizations to stored documents, e-mail and instant messages.

It also allows you to see the health of subroutines and can track and audit the process so that you can see how many messages have gone through," Gilliland said.

The software supports Apple's Mac Entourage e-mail and Safari Web browser, as well as Microsoft Outlook and all major iterations of instant messaging software, both public and corporate.