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Death to PST Files: The Hidden Costs of Email

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Overview Email has become the lifeblood of modern business, with more than three quarters of an organization's business-critical data stored there. Yet, the current practice of backing up email and related attachments inefficiently devours storage. Current practices also create gaps in institutional knowledge and numerous other security and regulatory risks.

In this white paper you will learn more about the business challenges created by the utilization of email archives and PST files as an organization's primary archiving apparatus, and you will see how the MessageLabs Email Archiving Service can help reduce such risks and create greater archiving efficiencies.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	MessageLabs	File Format	PDF
Date Published	February 2008	Downloads	3
Format	White Papers
Topics	Security Applications, Email, Best Practices, Storage Management, Network Security, Back-up, Data Recovery - Security, Sarbanes-Oxley

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