Massillon City School District is a public school district serving around 4000 students across 6 schools in the city of Massillon, Ohio. Like all other K-12 districts, MCSD needed an email archiving solution to stay in compliance with state and federal record retention regulations. The challenge Massillon City School District was facing was related to […]
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The Ultimate Guide to Email Archiving for Startups & SMBs
Email archiving used to be a business practice limited to large public companies, especially those in the regulated sectors such as government, education, healthcare or financial services. More recently, keeping proper electronic records has proven beneficial to businesses of all sizes, and email archiving has quickly become a way to improve records management quickly and […]
Five IT Practices for Email Archiving
When we think about email archiving and its benefits, the first advantages that come to mind are observing regulatory compliance and being prepared for electronic discovery. Even in 2019, these two are bound to remain the chief drivers for companies to take on email archiving solutions. Due to data protection laws and privacy legislation, organizations […]
All You Need to Know About Compliance and Email Archiving
Most business owners today are aware of certain responsibilities they have for email archiving under compliance legislation, but aren’t sure what the point of compliance is or how to ensure it. Simply put, compliance legislation is a set of legal rules governing the protection and preservation of enterprise data, including electronically stored information. This means […]
Why On-Premise Email Archiving Solutions Are Still a Good Investment [White Paper]
In recent years, the email archiving community has been turning to cloud-based solutions. The trend has been overwhelming, and sturdy, reliable hardware solutions were suddenly characterized as “obsolete”, “last-century”, “vintage” and “cumbersome”. Cloud archives are advertised as innovative, flexible, simple and scalable and their advantages are reflected in ease of access, support for various devices […]
When to Choose a Cloud Email Archiving Solution
Email archiving technology solutions can be deployed in several different ways. After the short-lived, complex software solutions of the early 2000s, the predominant models were archiving appliances, better known as on-premise or in-house archiving solutions. Although on-prem archives still have their loyal supporters, the email archiving industry has changed profoundly since the advance of cloud […]
Email Archiving Benefits: 20 Reasons to Archive Email
Email archiving is almost 20 years old. Nonetheless, there are still companies that are reluctant to adopt the practice. The rationale is often monetary – for small and medium-sized businesses operating in non-regulated industries, an email archive often seems like a costly can-do-without. Many organizations wrongly believe that storing email on live servers or using […]
Moving Your Email Archive to the Cloud: What You Need to Know
We are already aware that email archives are precious for business continuity, legal discovery and staying in line with email compliance regulations. A lot of companies have recently abandoned their in-house archives and flocked towards the cloud. Cloud services are apps and programs that run offsite and are provided by third-party service providers. They’re becoming […]
Why Your Information Governance Strategy Must Start with Email
Information governance, that often elusive concept that quickly became a buzzword in meeting rooms around the globe, can best be defined as a holistic approach to managing corporate information. Still elusive? IG is a super-discipline that covers people, technology and processes that ensure that business information is handled, managed and stored in accordance with corporate […]
Email Archiving: Hardware vs Software solutions
Why is email archiving important? Email is a critical function for most enterprises, in some cases more critical than the phones. Administrators need to be able to ensure that emails can be recovered in the case of data loss on the server or user error, and also may need to be able to respond to discovery […]
