You can leverage CommonStore as a tool to develop a compliance strategy for Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), HIPAA, and other important federal regulations that require e-mail archiving and storage.

E-mail Compliance and Archiving:

Did you know that five U.S. Banks were fined $1.25 million for being unable to retrieve subpoenaed e-mail – which were stored on backup tapes? A single legal discovery for e-mail can cost between $150,000 and $250,000. There is a solution that can get you- and keep you- in compliance, saving time and money. This is known as CommonStore.

Alpine can help your organization get prepared in advance to produce the required electronic information in a timely and complete manner during legal discovery proceedings. We will help you develop a compliance strategy that will make e-mail archiving and storage a requirement for fields such as legal, financial services, healthcare and insurance.
Utilizing CommonStore, you will be able to do the following:

• Find any e-mail…at any time…within seconds
• Optimize storage, reduces backup and restore times and allows for faster e-mail searches and recovery.
• Build a strong business case around this important compliance solution
• Quickly and efficiently put this technology to work
• And more…

E-mail archiving, discovery and compliance has clearly come to the forefront of corporate priority as a result of rigorous and sweeping legislation and regulation around business practices and processes. Widespread and high-profile corporate malfeasance and the heavily punitive nature of the penalties assessed – censures, fines, and even jail time – has caused today’s organizations to stand up and take notice. E-mail archiving, discovery and compliance initiatives have moved to center stage, particularly in highly regulated industries.

Maintaining Business Agility Despite Growing E-mail Volumes:

Your business needs to be agile to succeed, and e-mail has become the primary communication medium for enabling business agility. By now, users take the benefits of e-mail almost for granted: instant communication and collaboration, immediate access to critical information and the ability to mobilize people and resources rapidly to meet the requirements of a dynamic marketplace. One study shows that 75 percent of business at large enterprises is now conducted or confirmed through e-mail. Therefore, a tremendous amount of corporate information is contained in the e-mail system, but it is often not controlled and managed like other electronic information.

The explosive growth in volume and size of e-mail is wreaking havoc on e-mail systems. Search and discovery requests for e-mail have become commonplace, while the ability to retrieve e-mail from backup tapes has become more and more onerous. But if some think that the time, effort and cost of implementing a robust e-mail archiving, discovery and compliance solution is just too expensive, think again. The cost of one regulatory mistake or one lawsuit can damage company reputation, and may put some companies out of business. Don’t let it be you!