Outsourcing your mail server and junk mail protection to a hosted solution reveals several positive side effects

The amount of spam continues to go up and this means that a large share of an organisation’s capital resources and bandwidth are “stolen” from them. Outsourcing their e-mail to a hosted service will help them get their resources back and re-spend them on productivity.

Internet is a core resource and a vital daily part of both business and private acitivities, however, if it suddenly consists of a lot of ilegitimate email-s and junk, then its becomes irritating and frustrating to both the IT department, the users and in the end the entire company.

With the spreading of web and easily accessible and comprehensible to every age group people, the volume of spam e-mail has exponentially increased and with that, the cost of cleaning unsolicited e-mails from inboxes. The cost of deleting spam is usually underestimated by people as it takes a couple of seconds to remove a spam e-mail from inbox. But even imagine a situation of removing tens or hundreds of thousands of spam e-mails could be fearsome.

Junk mails are more than just irritating in their nature, they also put significant stress on the entire operation of a company because they occupy network and waste bandwidth. Every single spam message increases bandwidth cost - worst case spam consumes more than 50% of your entire network.

Organisations - from big corporations with internal dedicated department handling IT security to small and medium companies, that only use a small share of the yearly budget on online security - are suffering from a slow and unproductive network In addition, both national and regional governments have taken serious actions towards passing spam preventing legislation, however, their this has proven to be insufficent because World Wide Web crime continue to run with new and more andvanced technology.

Spam e-mailers have formed their own underground community equipped with networks of hosted computers and innovative attack methods. A number of studies have shown that spam are draining financial resources and posting security threats to organizations by exposing their networks to malware, spyware and other malicious codes.

These online threats highlight the need of installing effective hosted spam mail filters on email servers to reduce operation costs and to protect networks from collapsing. Oursourcing all mail services can especialy help companies to remove the online threats caused by spam.

A strong argument for using outsourced hosted services for mail is the amount of time companies save becayse the no longer have to worry about handling hardware, software, integration and maintenance of the spam filter. Qualified and skilled professionals keep round the clock watch on their systems and ensure complete elimination of spam before sending e-mails to their networks.

The responsibility removing all spam before it reaches the end users is now placed at the outsourced hosted mail server, and understanding the entire process is now much easier for less technical users.

Author:Martin Faklor