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Storage Space Management Overview

The drive to archive has been fueled by three key trends:

• The worldwide explosion in e-mail and instant messaging (IM) usage
  According to independent market research firm The Radicati Group, the average corporate e-mail user sends and receives a total of 133 messages per day, one-quarter of which are sent with attachments. And despite concerns over its management and use, enterprise IM adoption is also heating up, driven by its immediacy of use and the benefits of group collaboration. As demand grows, major platforms including IBM Lotus Sametime and Microsoft LCS/OCS are making instant messaging a key component of their unified communications strategies.
  
  
• The increasing storage requirements of corporate e-mail users
  As more graphics-rich forms and documents are sent as e-mail attachments, average e-mail message sizes are rapidly rising. The average corporate e-mail user sends and receives roughly 16.4 MB of data per day, and that figure is expected to exceed 21.4 MB by 2010.
  
  
• Regulatory compliance requirements
  An increasingly litigious environment surrounding the use and storage of e-mail and other messaging data has affected companies in virtually all industries. “Failures in finding, saving and sharing e-mails are bedevilling large and small litigants, undermining their credibility with judges and affecting the outcome of high-stakes trials,” writes Don Clark in The Wall Street Journal. “New federal rules have reinforced companies’ obligations to produce electronic evidence, which has exploded in volume as e-mails replace phone calls and other business communications.”