E-Mail Archiving Growing in Importance

Corporations' reliance on e-mail systems to circulate information has grown exponentially, but their ability to sort, retain, and locate e-mail messages has not evolved as quickly.

Corporations' reliance on e-mail systems to circulate information has grown exponentially, but their ability to sort, retain, and locate e-mail messages has not evolved as quickly. "In many organizations, few procedures are in place that outline how to manage e-mail correspondences, and often companies can not quickly locate important messages," noted Dan Blum, group research director at market research firm Burton Group.

Yet regulations, such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, National Association of Security Dealers 3010, Sarbanes-Oxley, Securities and Exchange Commission 17a-4, are forcing corporations to put checks in place so they can locate messages quickly. A raft of vendors, including Aftermail, AmeriVault, EMC (NYSE: EMC) , Hewlett Packard, IBM (NYSE: IBM) , ILumin Software Services, Iron Mountain (NYSE: IRM) , Mobius Management Technologies, OpenText , Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW) , Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC) and Zantaz, have built products that deliver those functions.

Source: Wired News