In today’s digital age, when data privacy laws and compliance regulations are changing fast, enterprise information archiving has become the norm ‒ best practice for some, a regulatory necessity for others. But what are the digital channels that have to be retained for compliance? Is email dying and, if yes, what is its most likely […]
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Top 5 Email Archiving Software Features (for 2023 and beyond)
The decision to adopt a particular email archiving solution should be based on various factors – the size of your company, your storage requirements and most importantly, your legal obligations under compliance acts – like HIPAA or Sarbanes-Oxley. To help you find the right archiving software for your business, we made a list of must-have […]
Office365 Email Archiving: 7 Major Disadvantages (Updated for 2023)
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 […]
Email Retention Policy Best Practices for 2023
Despite the increasing prominence of other communication methods, email still plays a central role in modern business. It’s used to share information, discuss decisions, send business documents and communicate changes. This brings us to the issue of email retention – emails are important documents which need to be retained just like any other business record. […]
5 Smarsh Alternatives to Try in 2023
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 […]
The 2023 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 […]
Top 5 Trends in Enterprise Data Archiving and Ediscovery for 2023
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 […]
Data Loss and Disaster Recovery: Common Causes of Data Loss and Prevention Tips
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 […]
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 […]
