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With an estimated 90 percent of U.S. companies involved in some form of litigation, the ability to quickly access archived emails is a high priority in corporate boardrooms. (See Jury's Out on Email Scrutiny and Email Review Can Reduce Risk.)
Email archiving has already proven crucial in at least one high-profile legal dispute, with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) slamming Morgan Stanley with a $15 million fine when it was unable to produce email evidence in court. (See On the Brink of Storage Disaster and Storage Goes to Law School.)
Exchange forms a critical part of this equation, particularly when it comes to archiving data, according to Michael Osterman, president of Osterman Research. "Archiving used to be primarily for financial services firms, but now it really applies to just about everybody," he says, adding that a slew of regulations are forcing firms to concentrate on e-discovery, or how quickly they can access archived emails. (See Nat'l Guard Picks Savi and Regulators Rip Records Managers.)
...But spread the load
Osterman also warns firms not to focus all their compliance efforts on Exchange. Many brokerages, for example, send out millions of emails to their clients each morning which may bypass the Exchange server altogether. "If you have a really high volume of emails you may not necessarily want to send them through Exchange because it poses a huge load on the server," he says.
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