Small and Mid-market customers struggle to meet ever mounting e-mail archiving requirements and associated compliance demands - often with a limited I/T staff and within strict budgetary guidelines. Compliance requires eMail to be retained more stringently and for longer periods of time - fueling existing challenges of eMail management. Learn more today!
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E-mail Archiving and Compliance
Solutions for Mid-sized Organizations
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Using traditional backup solutions that restore systems if you have an outage, such as a disk system failure, is no longer sufficient. These backup products do not allow you or your employees to easily search E-mail, e-mail everywhere through thousands of e-mails to find, Highlights E-mail is a primary means for for example, the messages outlining communicating with people inside the payment information that another ? Archives e-mails with a solution and outside of your organization today. company had agreed to. They also designed for your mid-sized Many of your customers use e-mail to probably only backup e-mails in one business negotiate contracts and agreements location, so if something happens at and exchange invoice and payment that site, you risk losing your archived ? Centralizes e-mail storage and information. Often, e-mail messages e-mails and documents. Add the access are the only record you have of need to make sure that the documents important transactions, and they must and information in these e-mails are ? Protects your archived e-mails be protected and retained. Also, if your available for external and internal audits e-mail system slows down or even or to meet compliance requirements ? Helps you manage and enforce goes down, the consequences to your and you're facing significant data retention policies business could be severe-especially challenges.
1E-mail Archiving and Compliance Solutions for Mid-sized OrganizationsMay 2007
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