Archiving the messaging system - Part 1 of 2
 
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It's no longer arguable that messaging is a critical application for the vast majority of organizations. E-mail has become the lifeblood of most organizations and is the application that most users would give up last. But what happens to all of the information in the message store, and how accessible is older information?
Creative Networks, Inc. has conducted research on back-up and archiving technologies and practices, and we've found some interesting things:
In our research, and this is a key point, we found that one-quarter of e-mail users are not able to retrieve information from the backed up or archived message store. That means that for a large percentage of users, old information in the message store is not accessible once it becomes more than a few weeks old.
In the next newsletter, we'll discuss the implications of not being able to access this information.
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Michael D. Osterman is the principal of Osterman Research, a market research firm that helps organizations understand the markets for messaging, directory and related products and services. He can be reached by clicking here.
Messaging archive
Past newsletters.
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Firms are consolidating their messaging systems
01/12/00.
Self-destructing e-mail: pragmatic or paranoid?
Network World, 11/29/99.
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