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Data archiving survival guide
Companies not forward-thinking enough with data archiving strategies could find themselves in deep trouble, Gartner has warned.
In a research note last year, Gartner analysts Kenneth Chin and James Lundy warned that companies not forward-thinking enough with data archiving strategies could find themselves in deep trouble. "Companies need document and e-mail archiving products to meet today's legal and regulatory demands, but these two markets will be swallowed up in a few years. Therefore, firms must identify vendors that can meet their immediate and long-term content archiving plans," they said. One glaring problem the analysts identified was the fact that today, companies purchase two separate products to archive static documents and e-mail. "The e-mail active-archiving market is new and growing quickly, and vendors are still entering it. "The integrated document archive and retrieval system (IDARS) market is mature, but continues on a collision course with distributed output management. Moreover, both technologies will likely become part of enterprise content management (ECM) suites by 2008, but many companies can't afford to wait that long; they need these capabilities now," Chin and Lundy said.The duo warned that companies requiring a solution today must choose vendors that are strategically positioned for the future. | ||
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