
CHAPTER
5
Archiving Rules, Tools, and
Best Practices
How great a stranglehold does e-mail and other electronically created,
acquired, and stored information have on business? Consider the facts:
• A whopping 90 percent of business documents produced and
acquired by companies today are electronic, according to
ARMA.
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• Corporate e-mail users averaged 126 incoming messages daily
in 2006, a 55 percent increase over 2003. At that rate,
employees in 2009 likely will spend 41 percent of the workday
just managing their e-mail, estimates the Radicati Group.
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• In terms of archived data, there are 13.4 million terabytes of
magnetically stored information, 255,000 ...