What Every Company Should Know About Email

Management for Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance In simple terms, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) requires businesses to demonstrate effective corporate governance and information management controls. However, since the Act passed, it seems that just about everyone—lawyers, consultants, industry analysts and technology vendors —have jumped on the SOX compliance bandwagon with recommendations and products to sell.

The prospect of storing and retrieving email is daunting, as the sheer volume of email exchanged among enterprises is staggering. Recent research from the Radicati Group, Inc. states that the average corporate email user sends and receives 84 emails a day, equating to 10 MB per day of storage. This number is expected to rise to 15.8 MB per user, per day by 2008.

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