In the world of litigation, email has become prosecuting lawyers' favorite smoking gun, and being able to respond to email discovery requests in a timely manner is critical for businesses that want to avoid stiff penalties from the SEC. Yet 70 percent of organizations still don't have an email archiving strategy in place, according to a recent study by AIIM, a nonprofit group focused on enterprise content management.
In the absence of an IT-controlled email archiving system, the manual discovery process is demoralizing and time-consuming, involving lots of guesswork and data retrieval from tape.
For storage service providers, this scenario means there's huge growth potential around email archiving systems.
While it's clear that companies - especially midsize and large ones - need email archiving systems, many companies have a hard time finding the right combination of hardware and software for an efficient and cost-effective email archiving system. This webcast, presented by Storage Switzerland founder and storage analyst George Crump, will show you how to drive email archive sales with your customers by helping them find the right mix of tools - toward the goal of reducing ediscovery-related costs and producing more reliable results.
Get details on the dynamics at play around email archiving: SEC regulations, backup considerations and best practices for retention. Finally, find out which hardware and software products do a good job at email archiving.
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