Email retention is more than just common sense

Retaining email in some form or another is more critical these days, thanks to a host of regulations that require it. But a new study notes that only about 14 percent of all corporate email accounts are being backed up and archived for future access, although that study, from the Radicati Group, also indicates that the number is expected to rise to nearly 70 percent by 2011. The study also points out that without an archiving record of all relevant messages, regulated companies may be subject to heavy penalties. Choices for deploying an archiving solution include implementing a product in-house or using a product as a hosted service. Today, more than two-thirds of all archiving solutions are sold as on-premises products, although an interest in hosted archiving is growing fast.

Read more about the importance of archiving email:
- read the article at CIO Insight

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