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19th May 2006
May 19th 2006, Warrington UK. If your company hosts its email outside yourorganisation, youÂ've joined a fast growing club. Several industry reports have beenreleased forecasting strong growth in companies out sourcing their email/messagingrequirements to specialist hosting companies.
One report from Radicati expects the business market to grow to 59 million accountsby 2008, an increase of 51 per cent in 4 years.
In another from Osterman Research, the average email user sends and receives amedian of 85 emails in a typical day, sends 17% more and 25% more emails in 2006compared to 2005, classifies 56% of the email they receive as critical and spends34% of their day working in an email client.
The factors driving the urge to outsource email? Radicati believes they are storagepressures, compliance requirements and spam and virus problems. Also a lot ofindustry experts believe that MicrosoftÂ's Exchange 2003 product is a driver for thehosted business email market. Exchange makes hosting business email more efficientand affordable for small to medium enterprises.
There are several compelling arguments for companies to outsource their messagingsystems according to Bill Unsworth, chairman of Simply Mail Solutions  SMEs arebetter off with a hosted solution. A simple  5.99/user/month cost buys thementerprise class collaborative email with anti-spam, anti-virus, guaranteed uptimeand plenty of storage. In addition they donÂ't have to worry about upgrading to thelatest and greatest messaging system, because providers generally have to stay ontop of that due to competitive pressures. Add to that the costs of installing anin-house system and hiring one or more administrators to manage and maintain thesystem.Â
Whilst larger businesses are typically more sensitive about giving control of emailto a 3rd party, he believes that spam and security related issues are drivers ofhosted email solutions as the complexity of in-house messaging solutions grows. more and more companies are saying  forget it, letÂ's outsource all thisÂ'Â
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Notes to Editors:
SMS is a new hosted email provider located in Warrington, Cheshire and offersMicrosoft Exchange amongst its product portfolio.
Bill Unsworth is well known in the industry and initiated and was a founder of U-NETone of the very first UK ISPÂ's and MANAP the Manchester based Internet ExchangePoint where ISPÂ's exchange traffic which is an important but invisible part of theinfrastructure of the UK Internet.
