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November 25, 2009

Sendmail, Osterman Detect E-Mail Cloud Trends

By David Sims, TMCnet Contributing Editor


Sendmail, a vendor of e-mail and messaging infrastructures, with Osterman Research has announced industry survey results from a recently hosted Webcast on how businesses are reacting to e-mail infrastructure being migrated to the cloud.


The talk featured Michael Osterman, president of Osterman Research, and Greg Olsen, director business development, Sendmail, discussing about data results from two recent studies conducted by Osterman Research. 
 
“The survey results clearly indicate that more companies are outsourcing their e-mail filtering functions using a hosted or SaaS (News - Alert) model and there is continued growth toward using virtualization and blade servers within enterprise messaging infrastructures,” said Olsen.
 
The survey found 40 percent of companies are outsourcing some part of their e-mail infrastructure, and that anti-spam (64 percent) and bulk e-mail (46 percent) are being outsourced by most companies.

Today 20 percent of users are served by a SaaS tool and 22 percent of e-mail servers run as virtual servers, the study found. Osterman said in two years, “38 percent of users will be served by SaaS and 49 percent of e-mail servers will run as virtual server.”
 
The studies underscored the idea that “security dominates the SaaS market today.” Both speakers elaborated on what functions will most likely be outsourced in the future, noting basic e-mail security functions such as, anti-spam, bulk e-mail, anti-virus, and anti-malware as the most likely candidates.

“As organizations consider their approach to managing their e-mail infrastructure, the key is for them to have a clear understanding of what functions should be managed in the cloud and why,” Osterman said. “Our study reveals that the reasons more companies are not outsourcing vary from privacy concerns, concerns about retrieving data once it’s outsourced, concerns about regulatory compliance issues and because they believe they would lose control of their capabilities.”
 
Contrary to what some believe, he said, “moving commoditized services to the cloud provides enterprises with more choice, agility, control and protection -- which is why more than 20 percent of users surveyed are outsourcing some of their e-mail functions to a SaaS product. In two years, we foresee that number will grow to 38 percent.”
 
Also this week TMC had the news that Sendmail announced the completion of over 250 Messaging Architecture Reviews conducted with Global 1000 companies interested in finding security vulnerabilities and discovering significant infrastructure cost savings from modernising their e-mail messaging infrastructures.

David Sims is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of David’s articles, please visit his columnist page. He also blogs for TMCnet here.

Edited by Michael Dinan


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