Archiving email is more important than ever now that new regulations require it and Datacraft has unveiled a new policy-driven solution for taking care of the task. It addresses the top concerns regarding email archiving, including the massive volume of email to be backed up, the time wasted in trying to manage email, inefficient use of storage resources and companies’ risk exposure. The Datacraft email archival solution works with Microsoft Exchange and IBM Lotus Domino enterprise email systems and enables companies to create a searchable archive for the retention, management and storage of corporate email. According to the Radicati Group, the average incremental email storage requirement for a 1,000-user company will grow from 200 GB per month in 2004 to 320 GB per month in 2008, creating an on-going storage and backup challenge. Faced with storage quotas, end-users often create an email database on their PC, leading to problems with security and reliability. Datacraft’s solution enables these decentralized mail stores to be "ingested" into the email archive to protect existing and historical email according to corporate policy. Incoming email is automatically processed by the archive appliance which checks it for duplication and the need to comply with policy. Email is captured in the Compliance Archival Storage and kept in a compressed format. Together, these measures are said to reduce email storage requirements by at least 50% which, in turn, relieves the load on tape backup systems. In addition to handling policy-based archiving, the appliance also maintains a complete index of email in storage. Datacraft provides professional services as part of the overall solution, ranging from detailed assessment of archiving requirements, to deployment and annual checkups to ensure the system remains in synch with changing needs and regulations.