Oracle Court Decision Shows Need for Email Archiving
Yet another email snafu. Oracle Corporation is the latest company to illustrate the need for email archiving. Acording to a Bloomberg report today, Oracle’s Chief Executive Officer Larry Ellison:
deliberately destroyed or withheld e-mails and failed to preserve tape recordings that should have been turned over to lawyers for shareholders suing him, a judge ruled.
U.S. District Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco said that email, as well as 135 hours of recorded interviews from March 2001 to August 2002 were willfully witheld.
Organizations of all sizes rely on email to conduct business. For most, email has become a primary source of communication, capturing important information and organically growing into a vital knowledge base that can be used for a range of business purposes.
Intentional or not, failure to produce email records when prompted for legal discovery is not tolerated by the courts as evidenced in this Oracle case.
Beyond e-discovery, email archiving offers significant benefits for organizations and their employees. Everything from having on-demand access to a searchable index of all email for employees and make them more productive, to IT resource optimization, storage management, backup and business continuity.
