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Tuesday, 11 October 2011 15:13 |
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While the benefits of cloud email are widely recognized, it still holds a minority share of the market. According to Gartner, the share of cloud email is just around 4% right now. However, Gartner has predicted that this will increase to around 10% by 2014. Mass adoption will take some time to come about, when the numbers will hit around 55% in 2020. The time this will take comes as a surprise, especially given the widely accepted fact that email is the most ripe enterprise for being migrated to the cloud. Gartner calls this "asset inertia" where companies using messaging servers like MS Exchange, have invested big amounts in infrastructure and software, and moving off to different systems is not easy. Security and confidence in the cloud are other probable reasons. However, even Gartner has now vetted cloud email a viable alternative to Exchange and other enterprise email servers.  Â
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