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1. Peter Burris summarizes how Email archiving is moving from the server room to the court room to the board room (5:47)

   

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2. The Wikibon community's vision of the development of Active Archives. (4:41)

   

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Wikitip Electronic content management organizational nuances IT in general and storage administration in particular should recognize that they will be required to administer and ultimately integrate unstructured content archives broadly across the organization. Like other cross-functional, high technology-oriented but business-driven initiatives (e.g. disaster recovery), CIOs must ideally have direct reporting authority from or at least strong matrix influence over the policies, procedures and practices associated with e-mail and other unstructured content archives and should propose organizational structures that reflect these responsibilities. Records management is a vital part of this mosaic. View Another Wikitip Browse all Information Management Wikitips
Featured Case Study Retail Giant Tackles Email Archive CS5 is retail organization with over 250,000 employees. The Exchange email system has about 75,000 seats and about 500,000 messages every day. In retail, margins are thin and CS5's strategy is to focus the Email archive only on the most important senior managers while aggressively deleting emails of other employees after a short period of time. read more...	Information Management Professional Alerts Browse all IM Professional Alerts
Featured How-to Note	Implementing an Email Archive Ninety percent of business communication is done by email, instant messaging (IM) and voicemail, all of which are electronically stored. The main body of evidence that put Arthur Anderson out of business in 2002, after 89 years, came from email. Citigroup paid $400 million in fines after Elliot Spitzer subpoenaed emails written by stock analyst Jack Grubman. read more...

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Featured Case Study

Retail Giant Tackles Email Archive

CS5 is retail organization with over 250,000 employees. The Exchange email system has about 75,000 seats and about 500,000 messages every day. In retail, margins are thin and CS5's strategy is to focus the Email archive only on the most important senior managers while aggressively deleting emails of other employees after a short period of time.

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Featured How-to Note

Implementing an Email Archive

Ninety percent of business communication is done by email, instant messaging (IM) and voicemail, all of which are electronically stored. The main body of evidence that put Arthur Anderson out of business in 2002, after 89 years, came from email. Citigroup paid $400 million in fines after Elliot Spitzer subpoenaed emails written by stock analyst Jack Grubman.

read more...