The benefits associated with archiving Microsoft Exchange email and associated data, creates many cost effective solutions. Archiving facilitates government regulatory or civil litigation searches for ediscovery requests. It also allows for more complete archive journaling, and provides storage benefits for both mailbox growth and the various storage devices that can be utilized.

Although lowering storage reduction costs is a common denominator for email archiving, compliance requirements are moving more companies to implementing archiving strategies. Depending on the motivation factors, cost savings on storage are subject to interpretation by different people.  For some people, compressing email could reduce licensing, as well as storage hardware costs.  For others it may mean creating a mailbox for end users, which has virtually unlimited space.

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John Mancini over at the Conquer Information Chaos blog thinks so, and he can’t understand why it hasn’t become a priority in document management yet. Here’s an excerpt from his post:

In a nutshell, email is a microcosm of the DIGITAL LANDFILL that exists in most organizations….

We all have it.

For most of us, what we are doing is an ungodly mess.

We certainly have no shortage of evidence of the risks of mismanagement — just take a look at a newspaper.

Lack of a strategy is pushing storage costs higher and higher as the volume of information explodes.

Lack of a strategy is taking a productivity toll as organizations try to pretend they are collaborating by sending around endless volumes of attachments.

Digital landfill-that’s a great name for all the emails, files, and other assorted data that fills many an office PC or server! What’s in yours?