Many companies are starting to look at ways to either reduce or slow down the ever increasing spending on their messaging infrastructure. Not only has the amount of email traffic grown exponentially in recent years, new regulatory retention requirements for electronic communications are adding huge additional expense to IT operations and infrastructure budgets.

So how do you trim the fat? – Start looking for bacn bits.

Bacn the new term coined to describe the superfluous emails existing plentiful in corporate networks. Corporate bacn comes in many shapes and forms. Company email newsletters and announcements, CYA emails (the excessive use of cc and bcc), notifications from intranet applications (e.g. CRM apps) all add to the white email noise.

Most notably in many cases IT themselves generate the bulk of unnecessary traffic.

The top senders in virtually all corporate messaging environments are automated notification agents from system and network management applications. These constant system status messages that initially seemed like a good idea for keeping IT staff informed, very quickly become background chatter most often ignored, deleted or auto-filed. It is amazing to see how this steady trickle of small messages adds up over time.

Therefore, the next time you wonder how to reduce network, storage and archiving costs - look for the bacn bits, which are easily revealed with a complete assessment of your email traffic.

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