Google Offers to Retain Emails for a Decade

Certain legislations like the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure have made e-mail archival very important for business enterprises. Furthermore, the whole business of e-mail retention is theoretically poised to benefit from the current financial crisis.

Google has announced that business users of its “Google Message Discovery” will now have the option of retaining their emails for up to 10 years for $45 per person per year – probably having sensed the boom. Hitherto, it only offered e-mail archival, retention for up to one year and charged $25 per user per year. The service is compatible with Microsoft’s Exchange and IBM’s Lotus Domino email systems.