Why is single instance storage important when it comes to email archiving? |
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| 18 Oct 2006 | Bill Tolson |
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Say the human resources department at a company of 1,000 people sends out an email with a 1 MB message attachment to every employee. That means up to 1,000 copies of that attachment (at 1 MB each in this case) may ultimately be archived -- demanding up to 1 GB of email archiving storage.
When evaluating email archive systems, the system should have the ability to create one copy of the email and attachment so that only one copy will reside in the archive. That way you potentially save a great deal of storage space over time, and it's much easier for an archive system to track the lifecycle of a single instance and ultimately delete it later on as policies dictate.
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