Article: Email banter behind data explosion
https://www.itnews.com.au/News/NewsStory.aspx?story=65986
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Companies are failing to identify the real culprit behind a lack of storage space and the huge volumes of data being hoarded, according to a new report..
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But consulting firm Detica believes that the real culprits of corporate data overload are employees chatting and sharing jokes and photos via email.
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"Email is widely used for office banter, social chats and group discussions about after-work drinks, or to circulate large digital files with cartoon jokes, MP3 files or photographs."
Saunders explained that there may be nothing wrong with this in itself, but that the data can quickly mount up, especially if teams also email large project files such as PowerPoint presentations every time they make a small change.
This is one of the benefits of having a full UC stack including IM and document sharing - reduce conversational emails being stored on your Exchange server (because after all Exchange is probably using the most expensive storage in your network), and provide a more efficient system than email for collaborating on documents.