Email, in the corporate environment, is regarded as a necessary tool in which to communicate and collaborate with others. MIS departments regularly juggle their data storage to handle the increasing demands placed on their infrastructure. Many institutions are also finding it a basic requirement to extend the retention period for their email messages and need a viable long-term, and cost effective solution. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and SEC explicitly spell out how digital files, such as email, should be retained and stored for audit purposes and many companies will struggle to keep up.

AMR Research predicts that Fortune 1000 companies will spend $2.5 billion on IT infrastructure to meet current SEC guidelines.

DISC nearline storage solutions allow enterprises to continue generating and receiving email while having access to the business’ lifetime worth of email archives. Acting as a central repository, the DISC storage solution behaves as another network node and is accessible anytime, anywhere on the corporate LAN and frees up existing resources for everyday processing and transaction requirements.