At the brink of 2018, I can pretty safely say that the majority of organizations know that they need to maintain their electronic communications and information, and they understand why. And if you don’t understand why, it doesn’t really matter because it’s a regulatory priority and you can’t really get away much longer without adhering. With that being said, let’s try to really understand what happens to our emails and why using an email archiving solution is important
What is Email Archiving?
In 2012, President Obama issued a command for “Building a 21st Century Digital Government,” requiring the use of online and mobile tools to make government services easier to use. Since then, thousands of agencies have been using web and social media tools to achieve the goal of “transparent, participatory, collaborative government”. This is great for creating an open and communicative culture and trust for government, but how do you comply with eDiscovery requests while publishing so much volume on social media?
It’s unavoidable – at some point you will more than likely “move to the cloud”. A McKinsey study showed that in 2015, 77% of enterprises used traditionally built IT infrastructure as the primary environment for at least one workload; they predict that this will drop to 43% by 2018. But just because McKinsey says other people are doing it, does that mean you should too? And if you decide that answer is yes how do you personalize it to fit your companies’ unique goals?