A number of laws and regulations require business emails to be archived. HOMANIT must keep copies of electronic mail for up to ten years or more. At the same time, German data protection laws are relati- vely stringent compared to those in other countries: certain emails may be archived for a limited period of time only, and others not at all. In-house solutions are complex, high-maintenance and often closely tied to the internal mail system. However, HO- MANIT did not want to be tied to its Lotus Notes mail system over the long term. The company took this as an opportunity to consider an external email archiving solu- tion. Key requirements were data security and supplier dependability. “Since the setup, the legally compliant storage of all our German HOMANIT emails has been

Join for free to read