Cloud Archiving 101

Archive emails for efficiency and compliance

As the basis for so much daily business communication, email is a mission-critical service for many business people. Managed services providers must steward it carefully, with a close eye on performance. In the fight for effective email management, there is one weapon that service providers frequently overlook: archiving.

Email archiving is a key compliance tool, and handled properly, it can also improve the efficiency of an email operation. As a repository of corporate knowledge, email may provide actionable intelligence about corporate workflows, and industry-specific regulations may require a company to preserve its communications. Archiving and backup also make it possible to retrieve accidentally deleted messages.