Email is a company’s lifeblood. Everyone from the corner office on down depends on it and expects 100 percent availability. They schedule meetings, assign tasks, answer questions, receive product orders, check progress and exchange friendly greetings – all with the click of a mouse. Communication among customers, employees and business partners has never been easier…Until something goes wrong.
An employee inadvertently opens the door to a virus that downs the entire system … A heavy day of email volume overwhelms the allocated storage, impeding performance of other mission-critical IT functions … Corporate counsel has asked that you turn over all emails from July of last year to settle a patent dispute, and you’re not even sure if you have them. All the while several of your staff members are spending hours trying to solve these problems, while the more strategic and forward-thinking projects get put on hold … again.
Managing corporate email systems has become a nightmare for companies and an expense that seemingly knows few bounds. Email systems grow so fast that what should be one of the most strategic...