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Vendor Landscape: Content and Email Archiving

Archiving is not just for email anymore.

  • You need to understand the products that can remove your compliance pain.
  • Your storage strategy needs a specific tool to dispose of records.

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Critical Insight

  • Archiving is no longer about email: you must have a clear business need to justify the cost.
  • You get what you pay for; there is a tight connection between cost and the number of features that are provided.
  • Archiving is an integral part of your information governance strategy and your storage strategy.

Impact and Result

  • Archiving products vary in use case. Understand the features that are available to focus on the vendors that can help you.

Vendor Landscape: Content and Email Archiving Research & Tools

1. Choose an archive product

Select the archive product that fits your use case.

2. Request more information from targeted vendors

Provide a detailed list of requirements to vendors to aid the selection process.

3. Evaluate vendors based on the same vendor script

Come to a clear decision on which vendors best meet your use case.

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