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Email archiving 'deployed to avoid litigation'
Category: Data compliance
14 November, 2008
Firms which are deploying email archiving systems are doing so to avoid being legally reprimanded for compliance and audit mismanagement, a survey has found.Indeed, 59 per cent of respondents to an Information Week poll cited such consequences as reasons for bolstering their data compliance procedures, while the 2008 Analytics survey also discovered that 37 per cent of 864 business technology professionals use an email archive.
The report notes that IDC forecasts the sales of such technology to increase from $631 million (£426 million) in 2007 to $1.7 billion in 2011, which could suggest that rather than shying away from spending money, organisations are waking up to the importance of comprehensive IT systems.
"Retention and disposition policies also help organisations address ever-expanding volumes of electronic information," the report notes, adding that messages can also be moved to different storage tiers.
In related news, an Economist Intelligence Unit survey found that firms could be negatively affected by information governance fissure, which may further flag up the need for strengthened data storage policies.
