Email archiving strategies for CIOs

Email archiving is no longer a basic storage issue for IT. E-discovery, litigation, compliance regulations and risk management require CIOs to have detailed email policies, which include storage, retrieval and data protection. Managing these policies and keeping up to date on email storage and archiving can help CIOs save time and money, while maintaining maximum productivity.

Definition: email archiving Email archiving is a systematic approach to saving and protecting data contained in email messages so it can be accessed quickly at a later date. In the past, companies often relied on end users to maintain their own email archives. The IT department would back up email, but not in a manner that made messages searchable. If a specific email needed to be traced, it often took weeks to find it. With today's compliance legislation and legal discovery rules, it has become necessary for many IT departments to manage the entire company's email archiving in bulk so specific messages can be located in minutes, not weeks.   -- WhatIs.com

This supercast features SearchCIO.com and CIO Decisions articles, columns and podcasts offering strategic advice to CIOs who are planning or implementing email archiving initiatives.

Email archiving: Four steps to ensuring success
Carol Hildebrand, Contributor
Compliance regulations and legal discovery issues are playing an increasingly important role in how emails are stored and retrieved. As a result, the need for email archiving has skyrocketed, and the CIO must play a significant role in making it work.

The Evidence is in the Email
Megan Santosus, CIO Decisions
What can email archiving technology do for you? Get you more storage space, improve system performance and make your auditors happy.

Email archiving and the law [Podcast]
Speaker: Mark Diamond, president and CEO, Contoural Inc.
CIOs considering email archiving need to look at issues beyond compliance. E-discovery and litigation readiness typically have the greatest impact on archiving strategies. This podcast discusses the legal ramifications of email archiving, and how they affect IT strategy.

Also on SearchCIO.com:

The Importance of Email Archiving
[Expert Webcast]
This webinar discusses the issues involved in message archiving and what components of an overall messaging management strategy are important. Topics discussed include reasons for archiving, key findings about the archiving market, establishing governance associated with retention and questions to ask when evaluating an archiving solution.

Image-based spam scams on the rise
Shamus McGillicuddy, News Writer
By using images instead of text, spammers are invading your inbox with a lot more than offensive language. Not only are the emails vulgar and invasive, but they're also creating huge storage and bandwidth problems.

More on email archiving from SearchSMB.com:

Email archiving for SMBs: No experience required
Shamus McGillicuddy, News Writer
IBM announced the release of its DB2 CommonStore Email Archiving Solution, an appliance that SMBs with little to no IT staffs can install quickly and easily.

IM and blogs next target for litigation
Shamus McGillicuddy, News Writer
In litigation, email is still the No. 1 target of subpoenas for electronic records. But IMs and blogs are easily targeted, too, and need attention.

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