A recent email industry survey shows how businesses are reacting to email infrastructure being migrated to the cloud. Osterman Research found that security-related email functions are dominating the software as a service market today and that the functions most likely to be outsourced in the future, if not already, include anti-spam, bulk email, anti-virus an anti-malware.
What factors are holding companies back from migrating to the cloud? Findings show that more companies haven’t migrated to the cloud because of privacy concerns, data retrieval concerns (will they be able to grab that data back once it’s in the cloud?), because of regulatory compliance issues and because some companies are just plain scared of losing control. However, upon a closer glance at cloud computing - a full-fledged look at what cloud hosting can do would show that cloud computing advantages include more choices, agility, control and protection than what a standard IT infrastructure environment can provide, which is why more than 20% of the users surveyed have outsourced their email functions to the cloud already.
Here are some of the results of the survey:
I think the two year projections are somewhat low, but the general growth towards using cloud hosting for email functions and/or using virtual servers is evident. At BlueLock we’ve seen great success in migrating email to the cloud. For many companies it makes the most sense to get email off of their machines freeing up space for them internally and getting their IT people working on more strategic applications. Contact us today to learn more about migrating email to the cloud.
Read the original post about the survey.
What factors are holding companies back from migrating to the cloud? Findings show that more companies haven’t migrated to the cloud because of privacy concerns, data retrieval concerns (will they be able to grab that data back once it’s in the cloud?), because of regulatory compliance issues and because some companies are just plain scared of losing control. However, upon a closer glance at cloud computing - a full-fledged look at what cloud hosting can do would show that cloud computing advantages include more choices, agility, control and protection than what a standard IT infrastructure environment can provide, which is why more than 20% of the users surveyed have outsourced their email functions to the cloud already.
Here are some of the results of the survey:
- 40% of companies surveyed are outsourcing some or part of their email infrastructure
- Anti-spam (64%) and bulk email (46%) are being outsourced by most companies
- Today:
- 20% of users are served by a SaaS solution
- 22% of email servers run as virtual servers
- In two years:
- 38% of users will be served by a SaaS Solution
- 49% of email servers will run as virtual servers
I think the two year projections are somewhat low, but the general growth towards using cloud hosting for email functions and/or using virtual servers is evident. At BlueLock we’ve seen great success in migrating email to the cloud. For many companies it makes the most sense to get email off of their machines freeing up space for them internally and getting their IT people working on more strategic applications. Contact us today to learn more about migrating email to the cloud.
Read the original post about the survey.
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