...And created a lot of revenue for storage companies and headaches for email admins. When MS Exchange rolled out, people discovered that email database size wa

...And created a lot of revenue for storage companies and headaches for email admins. When MS Exchange rolled out, people discovered that email database size was higher than typical for just email messages. A little bit of investigation revealed that PowerPoint slide decks and other multimedia was consuming the increased storage since Exchange made it much easier to send large attachments to others.