E-mail Archiving: the first Step towards Enterprise Information Archiving

MCLEAN, Va. - Nov. 14, 2013 - PRLog -- ZyLAB, leading provider of eDiscovery and Information Risk Management solutions, today released a new whitepaper on e-mail archiving that provides legal and information management professionals with best-practices and recommendations for e-mail archiving as the first step towards Enterprise Information Archiving. The whitepaper is written by Mary Mack, Esq., Enterprise Technology Counsel for ZyLAB and the author of “A Process of Illumination: The Practical Guide to Electronic Discovery” and co-editor of the Thomson Reuters West treatise, eDiscovery for Corporate Counsel.

E-mail today is the go-to form of communication for business and regulators, courts and corporations have created various standards and regulations for the archiving and retention of e-mail in order to manage and protect this valuable information.

Many organizations see their first e-mail archive approaching “End of Life.” They may be moving to cloud e-mail like Gmail or Microsoft Exchange 365, requiring an investment in integration. The evaluation process for a new or upgraded e-mail archive can now take into account the lessons learned from first generation archive experience.

Modern e-mail archiving solutions help reduce e-mail management efforts and support enterprises’ compliance with legal and regulatory requirements by securing and preserving data. But selecting an e-mail archiving that supports the requirements of both legal and IT professionals is not an easy process.

In this whitepaper, Mary Mack addresses the challenges of e-mail archiving, reviews current eDiscovery expectations, and illustrates the road to eDiscovery ready e-mail archiving as part of a broader Enterprise Information Archiving initiative.

The whitepaper “E-mail Archiving: Your First Step towards Enterprise Information Archiving” can be downloaded from the ZyLAB website.

For more information please contact Annelore van der Lint, ZyLAB Marketing Director via Annelore.vanderlint@zylab.com  or +31 (0) 6 290 73 879 (cell) or +31 (0)20 717 6514 (office) or visit www.zylab.com