Looking on the news, I was trying to bring something to the attention to the small business-like. The help would be important and there is an article in PC world done by (Inaudible) King, addressing the archive e-mail. A small businesses, and the title of the article is, Poor E-mail Archive Habits Played Businesses.
I have seen a tremendous update in the number of inquiries in people looking to purchase e-mail archive and software. And due to some language, and the Supreme Court ruling. I believed it was in December 2006. Basically, the fly out in the street is pretty much compulsory for the schools not for profits, companies to archive their e-mail. Now, I am not going to give all the legal stuff here.
Now we will say that due to the answers. There are tremendous increases in activity in companies looking for to purchase or implement an e-mail archive and solution.
And because of that, there are some real new players into the market place, trying to get a piece of that business. And some of it is very good, some of it are just absolutely, either ridiculously prize for what you get, the company is not unknown. And the very risky investment, but what is even scary to me, is the number of small companies that play so fast and lose with their e-mail.
The article says, that employees are failing to properly archive e-mails, and for the research, because they are often too busy or to unsure their IT skills. Well, if your e-mail archive has a solution anyway, that is transparent to the user, okay? Really. I think you should take that burden of archive and e-mail off of your users, and lots of intelligent software, to manage the archive. But if you are doing that, and you are relying on your workers to archive their own e-mail. You are going to find out, and I think this is probably bad accurate, that over 75% of employees said they receive no guidance on their requirements or methods, meaning, how to store e-mail. And more than (Inaudible) their company has no e-mail policy at all.
Wow! Hard to believe, the article goes and says some 41% leave files attached to e-mails forever? And only half has said that they have an enforce limit on storage place for their messages, only half.
If you have exchanged e-mail server. You have a problem if you are not limiting the user mail boxes. People learn actual pack (Inaudible), who will never ever delete anything, no matter how (Inaudible). And the reason, they won’t (Inaudible), they may just need that recipe from grandma again, or expense report from three years ago, do not matter.
Look, you know that what’s make e- mail archive and products on the market in the sense of the way of doing business. They are relatively inexpensive now, we happen to handle a company called GFI, they make an excellent e-mail archive and (Inaudible) mail archiver, it was a reasonably price. It has a lot of functionality for the money, but there are other solutions out there. And I am not saying to buy the e-mail archiver, but what I am saying that once a company implemented a solution, and then you can just starting training your users. Start deleting that e-mail, because if we need it again, we will be able to find it.
And think about the legal ramification in the event that you have some type of a legal issue with the client, the vendor, government or whatever, and your sub-peona for different e-mails. How are you going to find them if you do not have an e-mail archive and solution? If you can find them, how will you find them and then let us say you do? How would you restore? And that can cause a whole lot more money and then if you buy the most (Inaudible) e-mail archive and system ever. It only makes sense from a business stand point to invest in e-mail archive and software.
Now the article goes on the mention a company called, GFT inbox, which is a unified archive and supplier. The commission to the survey. I said poor stored of e-mails may at affirm a risk reaching regulatory requirements. They are also putting a cause of restrain on their e-mail. So again, if users are not deleting e-mails and the dat
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