It is predicted that the email archiving market will grow from nearly $2.1 billion in 2009 to over $5.1 billion in 2013. The reasons a company may opt to implement an email archiving solution include protection of mission critical data, to meet retention and supervision requirements of applicable regulations, and for e-discovery purposes. In addition to simply accumulating email messages, these applications index and provide quick, searchable access to archived messages independent of the users of the system using a couple of different technical methods of implementation. The messages are typically then stored on magnetic disk storage and indexed to simplify future searches. Email archiving solutions capture email content either directly from the email application itself or during transport. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Įmail archiving is the act of preserving and making searchable all email to/from an individual. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information.
