With business increasingly conducted around the clock and in multiple locations, corporate e-mail traffic grows heavier every year.
Business challenge
Increased amounts of e-mail cause many employees to spend time searching for particular messages or attached documents. In turn, IT administrators face constant demands for more disk space and associated overhead for backing up e-mail servers.
In response, some companies set arbitrary storage limits or ask users to store content locally. However, such limits or local storage can result in the loss of valuable information, excessive file duplication and challenges in meeting compliance requirements.
Without archiving, the volume of e-mails and attachments on your e-mail server can become unmanageable. And if storage limits aren't enforced, your company's storage costs can escalate. In addition, with an ever-expanding e-mail server, you face extended service intervals for backup, restore and recovery; increased replication time; and greater efforts for system administration, maintenance and system upgrades or consolidations.
Solution
An e-mail archive solution can help you move older, inactive documents to an external archive, reducing the size of your e-mail server storage. This also helps to provide virtually unlimited mailbox space to end users; helping lower system backup, restore and recovery times and associated maintenance costs and efforts.
