Comments on: Managing Email Storage Before it Becomes a Problem

By: Akiko_

Akiko_ — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 04:54:17 +0000

With all the spam and phish emails running around the web these days, a 500GB email storage for a small and medium size enterprise is not enough. And sometimes, employees use their corporate email accounts for personal reasons – just like sending and receiving emails, photos, and videos from friends and families.

I think managing email storage should also include the corporate email compliance discussed here: http://www.gfi.com/blog/5-tips-ensure-corporate-email-compliance.

By: Jason Cole

Jason Cole — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 09:59:10 +0000

Is there a better solution than PST files? At least these are easy to create and relatively reliable. I know that many users don’t take the pain to delete useless files that are huge in size and this gets archived, too but aren’t there any better email archiving options than PST files?

By: Thomas Edgar

Thomas Edgar — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 00:33:26 +0000

As an owner of an startup SME company, email storage is one of my biggest concerns – with countless spam messages sent everyday, file attachments with more than 1mb in size, newsletters and other marketing materials, and the likes.

Although data storage is getting cheaper and cheaper each year, I still impose a strict mailbox quota to all my employees, office departments, and even to myself. This way, I can completely monitor all data sent and received, which I think is a good IT and business management.

Being proactive on managing your email storage is a must for an enterprise to grow.

By: Tina

Tina — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 19:55:50 +0000

I’m a little confused. I’m a secretary in a small office and I have been noticing just the problems you’re addressing. How do I set up the PST option in outlook?

By: Ed Bromin

Ed Bromin — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:52:20 +0000

It seems strange to me how readily Exchange allows for the creation of PST files while at the same time its latest software seems to try and push users away from creating them. If that’s the current standpoint, why not patch this creation process to suggest the new methods of email archiving instead? PST files are great in theory, and rarely so in practice.