For IT administrators blogs are a lucrative treasure trove of hints and tips that are shared among the industry insiders. They are a very useful source of information allowing bloggers to share their thoughts, opinions, find, reviews and other information that people may find useful.

Over at Talk Tech To Me, blogger Christina Goggi wrote a very useful post highlighting 27 of what she believes to be the top IT admin blogs around. These blogs discuss current tech issues and/or the latest software releases as well as any other information that is pertinent to IT administrators. I recommend that you check out this post to discover some worthwhile resources and you’re encouraged to add your own favourite IT admin blogs and share the wealth.

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Living in a world that’s ruled by laws and regulations it’s not surprising that our technology and data also falls under the jurisdiction of the legal system. Email archiving is rapidly being implemented in all organizations because of eDiscovery regulations and compliance legislation. All data must be traceable and recoverable, that’s the bottom line. However there are other reasons why email archiving, and email management in general, is an important investment for an organization, even in a country where legislation does not yet instruct that emails are to be stored.

Email archiving is used by administrators to maintain an archive of all corporate correspondence thus reducing the dependency on PST files which used to store Microsoft Outlook data on a local computer. These files are known to be unreliable and problematic from a compliance and usability perspective, yet are still widely used. The setbacks with PST files stem from both hardware and software issues, thus the chances of Outlook PST files getting corrupted, and therefore unusable, are rather high.

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