Best Practices for E-Mail Retention and Management
Friday, July 28th, 2006This free white paper examines the business case to achieve three objectives relating to the management of electronic mail (e-mail). There are several compelling reasons for organizations to seek these results. The first is the phenomenal growth in the volume of e-mail created, received and stored — and the related significant resources needed to manage it. The second reason is the highly publicized and costly failures of major companies to preserve and produce relevant e-mails and other electronic information which, in turn, have resulted in greater frequency and severity of civil sanctions and criminal prosecutions. And the third is the fact that the scope of “preserve and produce obligations” expand when the new Federal e-discovery rules take effect in December 2006. An e-mail archiving solution, as part of a comprehensive electronic records and information management program, can provide organizations with a cost-effective means to: Comply with litigation, regulatory and industry requirements for records preservation; reduce the time and cost to retrieve, search and review electronic information for legal reasons; reduce operating costs through use of a common records repository and single instance storage; protect the interests of the organization by preserving intellectual property.
(PDF, 29 pages)