Email is now an essential business tool.  Many companies simply couldn't function without it.  The research body The Radicanti Group estimates that approximately 210 billion emails are sent per day worldwide.  If even half of those are business related, it equates to a storage nightmare for the companies involved.

Exchange storage management is essential to keep your users mailboxes a sensible size.  It also ensures your mail server performance doesn't get mired in mailbox management.  The more time your mail server spends managing user's mailboxes the less time it has to process mail.

Companies like www.archivecompliance.com are one such outfit that handles these types of issues.  For a set monthly fee they can provide a reliable, resilient and cost-effective email archive solution to fit almost any situation.  This leaves business to do what they do best, do business.

From a customer viewpoint, hosting is a very cost-effective way of working.  All of the hardware and support of the product is handled by Archive Compliance, meaning a much lower IT footprint.  This saves time, money and building space as you don't need hardware or the support staff to maintain the service.  Many companies view IT systems as a necessary evil, not a tool to accomplish their goals.  Outsourcing as much as possible allows you to concentrate on your business without the unwanted distractions technology can provide.