GFI Software, an international IT security and messaging software developer, has announced new independent research into the status, progress and perception of e-mail archiving uptake in UK small to medium sized enterprises. Of the 408 IT managers, directors and consultants surveyed, 49 per cent have fully implemented e-mail archiving in their organisations and the majority of those respondents (31 per cent) are regularly taking less than one hour to find business-critical e-mail correspondence on request. However, the primary concern evident from the research is that of the remaining 51 per cent of organisations that have not implemented e-mail archiving, it appears that this is principally through lack of education. With budget restraints being the most popular reason for not purchasing (28 per cent), a further combined 32 per cent of those surveyed perceive it as unnecessary to their particular needs or feel too ill-informed to purchase.

A copy of the survey results can be found at: http://www.gfi.com/documents/rv/GFIarch-survey_UK.pdf