With planning and forethought, a cloud-based email archiving solution can effectively meet the full range of an organization’s business requirements and also satisfy regulatory mandates. Support for essential tasks, such as consistent enforcement of email retention policies and rapid eDiscovery searches, should be central features of any archiving solution. Properly deployed, an email archiving solution should work in tandem with an existing email system, supporting, rather than disrupting each user’s workflow.

The best solutions streamline administrative requirements with centralized management features that provide a unified view of operations and precise control over options, privileges, and user capabilities. Tightly integrating a cloud-based email archiving system with an organization’s email platform offers further advantages. For example, extending Microsoft Exchange with the Mimecast email archiving solution brings the benefits of cloud-based archiving and management—including continuity, fast eDiscovery, and compliance—to an organization’s IT infrastructure.

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