Compliance drives need for email archiving
Friday, November 14, 2008
Compliance is the principle driver in the growing uptake of email archiving services, a new study has found.
According to Information Week, while compliance standards are the most common reason for adoption of email archiving - with 29 per cent of firms stating this as the primary impetus - it is not the only cause.
Nearly a sixth (15 per cent) said that email archiving allowed them to keep hold of messages when quota limits were exceeded, while the same proportion said that email retention forms part of their best practice policy.
The website conducted an independent study of 597 firms and found that while some 59 per cent cited compliance as the primary use of email archiving deployments, 21 per cent used the services because they wanted their workers to be able to access older messages.
Earlier this month, a report published by Osterman found that despite the benefits, many IT managers are not taking email archiving services seriously.
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