Govern your communication and comply with regulation
When it was enacted in 2002, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (often abbreviated to Sarbox or SOX) was a landmark piece of legislation that heralded many changes to how businesses operate and preserve files. This federal law set new, broader requirements for all public companies in the United States, but included a number of provisions that apply […]
Introduction In modern business, email is not only the fastest and most commonly used communication tool, but also the virtual file cabinet for various business records. Although e-storage has long eclipsed paper storage, many users are still uncertain about whether and why they need an archiving solution, what to archive and how to go about […]
Introduction: Why Archive in the First Place? In modern business, email is a critical function for most enterprises. A recent report by DMR shows that an average office worker receives around 120 email messages daily. Administrators and compliance officers need to be able to recover email messages and chats in case of data loss or […]
When purchasing an email archiver, your primary concern should be for your archiving solution to contain stellar hardware and software. A robust and powerful appliance with server-grade hardware combined with an intuitive yet comprehensive software is the way to go. However, in the quest for the perfect solution, you might get too preoccupied with features, […]
We now know that your company’s ESI, including email and social media content, can be used as evidence in everyday workplace disputes and legal proceedings such as investigations, Freedom of Information Act requests, lawsuits and audits. With today’s regulatory requirements, archiving email and other digital data in a manageable repository has become the only sound […]
Your company or organization has decided to implement an email archiving solution. But this is a piece of equipment you don’t buy on a whim. We’ve already written about what features to consider and also tackled on specific functionalities that a top-notch archiving solution should have. One of them certainly is scalability. If your email […]
Not all email archiving solutions are the same. Before you go looking for the right one, there’s a whole bunch of things you should take into consideration. Today, we’re talking about three functionalities that can make a big difference. All three ‒ deduplication, single-instance storage and compression ‒ are closely related to storage, which is […]
We’ve all heard of company policies. They are procedures that establish the rules of conduct within an organization and outline responsibilities of both employees and employers. Some of these policies deal with the adherence to various state and industry-specific laws and regulations which include FOIA, Sarbanes-Oxley, GLBA, HIPAA etc. They must be put in place […]
A surprisingly large number of people will learn too late about the importance of a good email archiving solution. There are a number of reasons and ways we can lose our email messages and attachments. Unless you have had a total system crash (where everything is wiped), it may be possible to recover your lost […]
