I recently wrote a post for our corporate website about Sarbanes-Oxley and the impact it has on corporate email archiving and retention. Lately I have been hearing a lot of friends in the IT industry talk about how they are being forced to comply with stronger regulatory guidelines for industry compliance. Granted, this is not anything new, the whole Sarbanes-Oxley thing went into affect in 2002 right after Enron, Tyco, and WorldCom left their shareholders wondering what had happened to their investment portfolios. The ultimate goal for Sarbanes-Oxley, as best that I can tell, was to mandate a level of accountability and transparency to corporations, especially publicly traded corporations, and to protect the interests of shareholders and investors.
Since 2002 there have also been many instances where records from corporations have been subpoenaed by a grand jury to investigate various allegations. In some of these instances the corporations claimed that they did not have these records. The regulatory compliance and data retention aspect of how many businesses do business today is still unacceptable so many industries are starting to roll out these regulations (that all resemble Sarbanes-Oxley in some form or another) to protect the integrity of their industries.
This is where Pleth gets involved. Our premium email solution has been an extremely product for us over the years with many of our business clients. Whether it’s a small business or a Fortune 500 company, our email solution is top notch. Given the fact that a lot of our existing clients are starting to inquire about email data retention and archiving we have added that service as an add-on to our email service. There is a per box fee for archiving tacked on at the end of each month, the charges for this service are nominal in comparison to what it would cost to bring an archival system in house.
If you are interested in learning more about email archiving, please don’t hesitate to contact us to discuss your needs. My partners and I would love the opportunity to work with your company in 2010.
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