If you’ve been keeping up with our news lately, you probably know that on October 13 and 14 we held our annual International Messaging Infrastructure Summit where we focused on “Is Cloud in Your 2012 Forecast?” Leading up to the event, Sendmail wanted to corroborate their own unique insights into the force and timing of some of the most significant drivers of IT and messaging of customers and other large messaging systems buyers. To do this, Sendmail worked with an independent research team to target IT professionals in large organizations in a survey conducted by the Internet Research Group (IRG) titled, “Email Backbone Survey.” Of those surveyed over 80 percent of the respondents were with companies with more than 1,000 employees, and 60 percent were in organizations with more than 10,000 employees. IRG covered areas such as:
Cloud computing
- Messaging as a Service (MaaS)
- Messaging as a component of application and service design
The survey focused primarily on testing the impact of different aspects of cloud computing on messaging. The results clearly show the importance of the shift and highlight multiple forms of the cloud, each with a different impact. From our perspective, some results of interest:
Companies with 10,000+ employees said 27% of their applications generate email
- Nearly 70% of organizations surveyed use email deployment via “on premise” servers
- Despite the buzz around the benefits of the cloud, more than 50% of organizations do not plan to move their email infrastructure onto virtual servers
- The majority of organizations polled plan to keep their email backbone systems in house for the foreseeable future
- More than half of the organizations surveyed had no plans to reroute email or adding a bulk email system
One of the key takeaways, and a message that we have heard ourselves from our own customers, is that messaging is a rapidly evolving application, with the influence of cloud computing alternatives, privacy and regulatory compliance, and the rise in application-generated email and the results we’ve seen here continue to back up the growing value of having an email backbone. To read the full whitepaper, click here.