Email Insurance what’s your policy?

A study produced by Radicati Group in October 2009 estimated the world-wide market for e-mail archiving market will grow from nearly $2.1 billion in 2009 to over $5.1 billion in 2013, with hosted solutions showing the fastest growth.

You would think that the experts were a little optimistic when they predict such a huge growth in this sector, but you would be wrong. Email is much more than just a communication tool, both commercial and governmental organisations have become reliant on email to send and store vital business information such as contracts, tenders, proposals, HR documents, payslips and marketing material.

What exactly is email archiving?
Email Archiving is the automatic process of capturing, preserving, and making easily searchable all email traffic giving you compress and encrypted records of each inbound, outbound and internal communications and attachments. The experts are predicting hosted archiving to show significant growth as it promises instant deployment and not upfront investment.

Objectives when deploying email archiving
There are many and varying motivations for deploying an email archiving solution, I’ve picked out 5 main ones to give you some food for thought. Please feel free to comment if you have any questions or give me a call to discuss how these requirements/ objectives can affect your business.

• Regulatory compliance
• Litigation and Legal Discovery
• E-mail backup and disaster recovery
• Messaging system & storage optimization
• Monitoring of internal and external e-mail content

Please feel free to comment if you have any questions or give me a call to discuss how these requirements/ objectives can affect your business.

Liam Bonthron | Business Development | Fruit Mobile Managed Services | 0141 204 3248

www.fruitmobile.co.uk/email-archiving

Online Resources:
• British Standards Institution - BS 4783, BS 7799/ISO 17799, BS ISO 15489-1, BSI DISC PD 0008, BSI DISC PD0010, BSI DISC PD0012
• Data Protection Act 1998
• Freedom of Information Act 2000

Email Insurance what’s your policy?

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I came across this video on the blog of another website (network world) and thought it was worth sharing. It features puppet instructors, I.T. Jinglehopper (aka 'Neal') and Jackson, who share there comical views on the "cloud". Enjoy!

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