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Email storage costs are eating away at corporate IT budgets. In fact, it's estimated that the costs of storage are now five times that of the hardware and software combined. Systems such as Microsoft Exchange were designed as a messaging and collaboration tool, not a storage system. Yet many users are using the filing cabinet features of email as a storage system for all their documents. This has resulted in many companies' mail databases becoming huge and unwieldy with the following resultant issues:

• Unmanageable exchange or messaging databases
• Inability to recover large mail systems
• Regular need to increase server storage capacity
• Lack of management control over email
• Increase in system down time

Additionally increasing legislation means email is now a legally recognised electronic document in UK courts. In response, organisations must effectively control, organise and archive both structured and unstructured email data and ensure its easy access to comply with existing and new regulations. Failure to do so could mean costly litigation and fines - and worst case, prison sentences for senior directors.

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