By Stefan Mehlhorn, President and CEO, Maria Tricca, Marketing Manager, and Roger Matus, Vice President of Marketing, Permessa Corporation

There are six practical best practices that most enterprises can implement to reduce the impact of email by up to 80%, without changing the culture or operations of the business. These steps will significantly reduce storage and bandwidth costs, and help reduce the information overload that is stifling employee productivity.

Email currently consumes vast amounts of IT resources.

The average corporate email user sends and receives 149 valid emails per day, according to Osterman Research, a well regarded messaging research firm. At a 10,000 person organization, these messages currently consume 51.2 gigabytes (GB) of storage per day, Osterman says. By 2010, they predict that the storage need will grow by 60% to 81.9GB per day. Not surprisingly, message volume is a major IT concern. 59% of organizations indicated that messaging storage growth is a serious or very serious problem, according to a survey conducted by Osterman. 

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