Oct 29

When to send your email to the cloud

Cloud Computing, Email Cost, SaaS View Comments

Some interesting analysis from the Gartner IT Symposium in Orlando last week.  Gartner expects 20% of corporate email seats to be either SaaS- or cloud-based by 2012.

The transition is well under way and is led naturally by smaller organizations, but larger enterprises are following.  The decision to move email into the cloud is mainly based on the promise of 50% savings.

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Aug 13

The cloudy future of hosted enterprise email

Email, Email Cost, Risk Management, SaaS View Comments

Hosted email has been available for quite some time, but the arrival of new “cloud-based” solutions offered by technology heavyweights such as Google (GoogleApps), Microsoft (Microsoft Online Service), Apple (MobileMe) and even IBM (Bluehouse) are stirring up a renewed debate of the pros and cons of using these services at an enterprise level.

Last week’s outage at Google, recent repeat problems at Amazon’s S3 storage services and Apple’s “insanely grating” MobileMe launch highlight the need to carefully consider all aspects when weighing hosted vs. on-premise solutions.

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