Last week, Sendmail’s Vice President, Engineering and Chief Technology Officer, Greg Shapiro, spoke with Eric Lundquist and Tyler Pyburn of CIO Insight’s The Pulse Network to discuss what CIOs need to evaluate when it comes to what parts of their email infrastructure they should consider migrating to the cloud and what should stay on-premise.
During the live segment, Lundquist commented that email is such a central feature of companies and the way people communicate but that many email systems haven’t changed. Today, email is still the way most people communicate; however, we are seeing a shift in certain things in the email environment due to social media tools. When it comes to email in the cloud, Shapiro addressed key points such as:
- CIO’s need to understand the different layers of their email infrastructures
- While there are benefits of moving to the cloud, it’s also important to look at both the challenges and the risks
- Biggest concerns are security, privacy and compliance
- The easiest part of the email infrastructure to migrate is the external layer and the most difficult is the internal policy layer
- Discussed how enterprises can overcome these challenges and deploy an email system they can trust.
Shapiro also talked about the benefits of the Sendmail Messaging Architecture Review (MAR) – a program that is designed to evaluate a company’s existing messaging infrastructure. Through the Sendmail MAR, enterprises are discovering security vulnerabilities and scalability flaws, while also discovering significant cost savings.
To watch the full segment, you can view the video here. What parts of your email infrastructure have you moved to the cloud? As always, we look forward to your comments and thoughts.