Managing Email Overload: The Smart, Secure and Legal Way

I decide to sum up one of the assignment article “Managing Email Overload: The Smart, Secure and Legal Way” – for those who couldn’t manage to read it ;) The article is describing the role of emails in business communication. As it is written the emails are more widely used than faxes, telephones or even face to face communication! That’s why more and more companies give huge budgets to have reliable IT platform that will support employees. According to the article, almost 60% of important-critical information is delivered via e-mails. That requires backup system much more different than old backup tapes. Each company has it’s own security policy that describes corporate records. Because e-mails can be treated as an evidence it is good solution is to treat emails as corporate records—to classify them, make them searchable, available for fast retrieval, and subject to lifecycle and retention management. The world of e-mails is changing what can be observed f.ex. in the e-mails sent per day. According to the author, people send 84 bilions of emails every day (not include spam). That can be an answer why so many e-mail servers are always down ;) The same growing trend is visible in e-mail size. At the beginning the average size was about 5 kb of text. Now it’s quite different. E-mails are used to send multimedia files and over 6% of emails weight about 10 MB. Email is increasingly recognized as a valid source of corporate information, and companies are looking for ways to manage it as they do other business-critical content. Companies looks forward to simplify the email management but is it really possible ? More information inside the article…