Outsourcing your e-mail server and spam removal to a hosted solution reveals several gains

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 necessity and an inevitable part of day-to-day activities but when it becomes a source of unsolicited junk e-mails or spam, then it could be very annoying and distressful to both the network administrators and those who own or manage a company.

The world wide web continues to spread out and becomes available to more and more people - young and old - spam follows this spread out trend resulting in increasing time and finansial resouces spend on filtering junk mail from legitimate mails. 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 unsolicited message delivered uses bandwidth and in some cases spam account for nearly 50% of the entire network.

Companies ranging from big names that have dedicated department of IT security to small enterprises, which spend a very small proportion of their annual budget on web security, are plagued by unproductive bandwidth. 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.

Spammer have set up their underground base with access to widespread networks of mail servers combined with advanced and custom technology. Analysis shows that spam drain both time and financial resources and organisations face security issues because they expose their internal network to e.g. malware, spyware and trojahns.

These severe security issues calls for effective outsourced unwanted mail shields for email servers in order to be able to prevent the security threat and reduce operation costs. Oursourcing all mail services can especialy help companies to remove the online threats caused by spam.

One strong feature of employing outsourced hosted server is time saving as companies do not need to be worry about hardware/software integration and maintenance of installed equipments. Trained and experienced personnel keep and eye on their systems 24/7 and ensure removal of all spam before it is passed to the company’s internal network and the end users.

The hassle of clearing user inbox everyday rests with the outsourced hosted server, which also provides valuable information that makes the process understandable to less tech-friendly users.

Author:Julia Sue-Beck