Missing Email Serves as Timely Archiving Reminder

April 19, 2007: In the wake of the White House’s missing email scandal, email archiving integrity and processes have been vaulted into the spotlight, illustrating just how important it is to have robust capture, archiving and restoration abilities.

According to email archiving developer Mimosa, millions of emails are allegedly missing from the White House and Republican National Committee (RNC) servers. This despite the availability of comprehensive archiving solutions.

The company points out that today's email archiving solutions can capture copies of all incoming and outgoing email continuously, preserving it in separate servers according to retention policies. Despite email volumes growing exponentially and heavy new compliance obligations being introduced, it is startling that this could happen at such a high level of national government when such archiving solutions are available.

“Email archiving solutions are the only reliable and cost-effective way to keep email. They have become a 'must have' solution for organizations to preserve historical email and enable search and recovery in the event of legal discovery or litigation,” says T.M. Ravi, president and CEO of Mimosa Systems.

The company says that Email is an essential tool not only for communications, but also for decision making within organisations. It is a record for government and businesses, and while businesses operating in Australia are not under the same compliance regulations as those in the US, the White House email scandal is a timely reminder of just how important proper email archiving is for modern businesses and governments.

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