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Believe it or not, email archives and Zombies have quite a lot in common. Below is my list of common archives/zombie issues. We would love to hear your horror story with regards to a legacy email that you’ve had problems with during a migration. Send your best migration horror story to marketing@archive360.com. (All names will be removed to protect the innocent.)
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What do Email Archives and Zombies have in Common?
1. They are both DEAD!
The original on premises email archives were a product of Microsoft
limiting Exchange mailbox sizes to 500MB or less. They were all the rage in an era long passed. Many went on to be resuscitated as “cloud” solutions but are essentially the original code base with some modifications. Both the Microsoft limitations and the original archiving products are no longer relevant. Today, we get unlimited mailbox capacity with our E3 or E5 licenses. And the majority of the original email archiving products are now defunct.
2. They are BOTH really scary!
Have you ever tried to manage an old, obsolete email archive? Pity the poor system admin who arrives at a new job and is facing a legacy email archive. 
You can be certain that the system is likely failing, no longer receiving security updates (increasing your organization’s data breach exposure), and you can expect little (or no) support from the manufacturer (if they’re still around). And good luck trying to figure out who the manufacturer is! Most old archives have been bought and sold 2-3 times, and vendors extract customers blood (money) to return data.
3. They are BOTH dangerous to get rid of!
Ever try to de-commission a legacy email archive? Forget the notion that you can just turn it off or let disposition take its course by aging out the
archived messages. The archive potentially contains email data and attachments that are subject to regulatory retention requirements, data potentially relevant in current or future anticipated lawsuits (the messages may already have been placed on legal hold), or data subject to data privacy regulations. It may also be messages that employees need to access.
Email Archive Migration - The Cure for Zombie Archives
Legacy email archives rightly strike terror in most IT administrators. While many have completed or begun the process of migrating their archives to the cloud (we should know, we’ve completed more than 2,000 legacy email archive migrations), many are yet to begin the process or still have archives that they need to address. For instance, SourceOne customers are facing a 2024 end of support deadline and need to finalize plans now to retire their SourceOne email archives and migrate the data.
At Archive360, we’re the experts in helping organizations migrating their legacy data and managing it in the cloud.
So if retiring your legacy email archive (or any other systems – applications, file shares, etc.) and migrating the data feels like THE MIGRATING DEAD; Painful, Slow, and Risky, … Stop running and fight back with Archive360!
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George Tziahanas, AGC and VP of Compliance at Archive360 has extensive experience working with clients with complex compliance and data risk related challenges. He has worked with many large financial services firms to design and deploy petabyte scale complaint books and records systems, supervision and surveillance, and eDiscovery solutions. George also has significant depth developing strategies and roadmaps addressing compliance and data governance requirements. George has always worked with emerging and advancing technologies; introducing them to address real-world problems. He has worked extensively with AI/ML driven analytics across legal and regulatory use cases, and helps clients adopt these new solutions. George has worked across verticals, with a primary focus on highly regulated enterprises. George holds an M.S. in Molecular Systematics, and a J.D. from DePaul University. He is licensed to practice law in the State of Illinois, and the U.S. District Court for the Norther District of Illinois.
