Selecting an E-Mail Archiving Solution

Author(s): Vince Londini

Dropping e-mail archiving prices empower small enterprises to seize the benefits formerly only enjoyed by their larger peers: e-mail server storage offloading and streamlined e-discovery for compliance/litigation issues. The vendor market is large and growing, with dozens of vendors offering solutions in various formats.

This research note walks IT leaders through three key steps:

  • Identify business drivers.
  • Build a strategy.
  • Look to leading vendors.

This note will guide IT leaders towards an e-mail archiving approach and arm them with goals about which they can approach vendors. IT leaders will also find an overview of the main competitors in each facet of the e-mail archiving market: services, records/document management, on-premises server-based, and appliance-based solutions.