A new study commissioned by GFI Software revealed that a lack of education is responsible for lack of email archiving found in most U.K. businesses. Of the 408 IT managers surveyed, a whopping 51% admitted they hadn’t yet implemented email archiving. 32% said they didn’t feel it was necessary or didn’t feel they had the expertise needed to make such a move, while 28% said it was simply too expensive.

“It is clear that there is a degree of education required in the market and that despite the clear benefits that many are seeing, the lack of appreciation of the utility of email archiving is concerning,” said David Vella, Director of Product Management at GFI.
“Resellers now have a unique opportunity to inform their target customer base of the benefits they are missing out on, and perhaps more importantly, the risks they are running by failing to implement these safeguards,” he added.

The risks indeed could be great. With the huge amount of data shared via email, much of it confidential or of critical importance, it’s always in a organization’s best interest to archive. Legally, it could literally save a company from disaster if they are ever called into court. It’s clear that in this day and age there really isn’t any good reason not to archive email.