Cloud enables interactive e-mail archiving

Grazed from ITWeb. Author: Admire Moyo.

Cloud computing has disrupted traditional on-premise e-mail archiving, paving the way for interactive archiving. This is the view of Grant Hodgkinson, product director for unified e-mail management at Mimecast, who says e-mail is still the dominant form of communication in businesses today. “The interactive archive is a technology platform that fulfils two important business objectives,” says Hodgkinson. “Firstly, it archives content and data relevant to the organisation so that it can be discovered for compliance purposes later. Secondly, it is accessible to knowledge workers, generally making them more productive.”

According to Mimecast, interactive archiving, driven by the cloud, is a more useful and valuable platform for business users as it allows them to leverage the archive and data therein for business intelligence, end-user productivity, ubiquitous access, and the corporate governance and compliance requirements that underpin the archive itself…

Hodgkinson believes the interactive archive is entirely relevant, and this is only going to grow. “As companies strive to do more with less, the demands placed on human resources will continue to grow, meaning employees need to do more with less. Leveraging technology effectively is the only way people will be able to deliver.”…

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