The future of Email Archiving?

The Radicati Group released last year a study forecasting a strong growth in the email archiving, wireless email and instant messaging markets. They expect the email archiving market to grow from $800 million in 2006 to nearly $7.8 billion in 2010. The wireless email market is forecasted to grow from 14 million in 2006, to 228 million in 2010. And revenues in the Enterprise Instant Messaging market will increase at an average annual rate of 23% over the next four years.

They found not surprisingly that the size of email messages as well as volume are both increasing, which will drive corporate bandwidth and storage requirements up by 61 percent in 2006. This drives organizations to adopt email archiving solutions to reduce costs, but also to ensure compliance and discovery.

The Radicati Group also reported that an average corporate email user sends and receives about 16.4Mb of data every day, and this figure will rise to 21.4Mb by 2010. Worldwide email traffic will total 183 billion messages per day in 2006. Of these messages, 70% will be spam.

By Atle Skjekkeland.