Cheshire police arrest email growth

Constabulary finds new tool to deal with attachment explosion

Cheshire Constabulary has installed a system to more efficiently deal with email attachments.

The force had been grappling with 1.5 terabytes of data residing within its email system, with back-ups taking nearly 24 hours to complete.

Cheshire has now started using a system that automatically archives all email attachments over six months old which has reduced inbox sizes by 90 per cent in some cases.

A spokesman for Cheshire Constabulary says the IBM Commonstore system, installed by Neocol, has allowed the force to start using email properly once again.

'From a user perspective, the solution has decreased the amount of time it takes to replicate mail files when employees work away from the office,' he said.

'From an IT perspective it has delivered untold time efficiencies, whether running jobs on servers or undertaking admin jobs like moving email accounts between locations for staff.'

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