Email Archiving for Everyone

There is the email archiving you do to meet various compliance mandates, and then there is the rest that everyone does. Most people do this kind of email archiving manually through their Microsoft Outlook folders.

This is not the best approach. A recent Gartner report on email archiving points out: “Demand for email active archiving products and services continues to escalate, as pure financial industry compliance considerations are being replaced by the broader market requirements for message retention, mail server management, and legal discovery support.”

“The email archive, for better or worse, has become a rich trove of business knowledge that, if mined and managed effectively, becomes a powerful business tool or, if allowed to run rampant without any controls, can be a litigation minefield. (See wiredFINANCE, Mar. 17, “Delete Data to Minimize Litigation Costs.”) As Gartner says, “Most organizations should be doing some kind of email archiving.” (more…)