Every time business is disrupted, it creates serious risks and depletes the organization’s financial resources, which is why having data loss prevention solutions and a business continuity plan is essential. As businesses grow more and more reliant on technology, it’s critical to futureproof your IT department and its many components such as servers, networks, devices […]
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Four Benefits of On-Premise Email Archiving Solutions
Today’s IT personnel need to preserve and maintain increasingly large company archives, while ensuring quick access to vital information. In their day-to-day job, they risk losing sensitive, business-critical data of entire corporations, government agencies, financial giants or healthcare institutions. And the issue is further compounded by deployment options – should you go for cloud or […]
Five Google Vault Alternatives for Email Archiving
Created by the famous tech giant, Google Vault is the compliance and ediscovery application that allows IT administrators to retain, hold, search, and export data from G Suite, at least the data that’s stored in Gmail, Hangouts, Google Drive (including Shared Drives) and Groups. In recent years, Google Vault has been a favorite email archiving […]
The 2021 Quick Guide to SOX Compliance and Email Archiving
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 […]
Email Retention Policy Best Practices for This Year
Having an email retention policy is important for a number of reasons – the major two being the need to save space on your email server and the need to stay in line with federal and industry record-keeping regulations. Defining how long your company will keep email communication can prove more challenging than you initially […]
5 Smarsh Alternatives to Try in 2021
Smarsh is a household name in the data archiving industry, providing archiving, compliance and information management services to the financial industry and government sector. And in 2020, it was named leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for enterprise information archiving for the sixth consecutive year. However, despite its cited completeness of vision, Smarsh doesn’t work […]
Top 5 Trends in Enterprise Data Archiving and eDiscovery for 2021
Executive summary Enterprise data archiving currently stands at a crossroads. The volume of data is rising at a rapid pace, social media are starting to make a significant share of official business records, and new laws on customer privacy protection give more freedom to consumers than ever before. At the same time, archiving solutions are […]
Email and Social Media in Employee Investigation & HR Ediscovery
Since most organizations implement email and social media archiving solutions to automate regulatory compliance and speed up open data request response times, they often forget the crucial component that is entwined with all the reasons behind archiving ‒ the human factor. Employee investigation can be the result of various HR-related scenarios that require the HR […]
Email Archive Migration: Challenges, Best Practices and Solutions
Organizations have been archiving email for two decades, which means that 90% of companies already have some kind of an email archiving system in place. But what happens when a company decides to change the archiving provider or upgrade to a new solution? How can you future-proof (and continue using) your existing archived data? What […]
Office365 Email Archiving: 7 Major Disadvantages (Updated for 2021)
In 2011, Microsoft designed the Office 365 cloud platform and centralized its existing services including Exchange, SharePoint and Skype. Six years later, Office 365 revenue overtook that of conventional license sales of Microsoft Office software for the first time. Today, adoption rates remain strong. As organizations flock towards O365 as a one-stop shop for the […]
