Should Your Email Live in the Cloud?: An Infrastructure and Operations Analysis

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Date:

05-01-2009
Vendor:

Forrester Research
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Whitepapers
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857.8 KB
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PDF, Acrobat Reader
Pages:

21

Publisher’s description

There isn't much that hasn't already been said about the criticality of email in business today - but the cost of hosting and managing one's own email infrastructure is probably reaching the breaking point. Google's $50-per-user annual fee has set a new floor in email pricing and is driving organizations to look inward at their situation and then outside at the hosted and cloud offerings. Companies are looking at upcoming email migrations, consolidations, and upgrades as times to potentially make a change. Before making a service architecture change, one should examine the needs of the different user constituencies, profile the applications that either integrate or work in concert with email, and understand the real costs of keeping email in one's data center and running it them self.

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Should Your Email Live in the Cloud?: An Infrastructure and Operations Analysis