While I want to spend some time talking about a handful of issues associated with free email archiving solutions, what they all have in common is that they end up not being free after all.
I’m not going to tell you that you won’t realize some cost savings when switching to a third-party solution. You will. In fact, when you consider the cost savings from switching to our archiving and backup product, what you save should more than make the costs worthwhile.
So let’s take a look at a few of the issues that we continue to hear from school districts that decide to give up on free archiving solutions like Google Vault.
First, hosted solutions should guarantee nearly 100% uptime. If they don’t, then you might want to look at a different third-party provider. Availability especially comes into play when you consider litigation and ediscovery. Providing access to your archive 24/7—or at least when your lawyers need it—should never come at the expense of network downtime for maintenance, product upgrades, etc.
Tags: Archiving & Backup