Last month, Network World predicted 2013 would be the year of the hybrid cloud. I think they’re right on.
We talked about the hybrid cloud at last year’s Sendmail EMEA User Symposium, and at our User Summit in Washington DC, where major financial, telco and other organizations presented their case for combining hybrid cloud architecture with our Sentrion platform for on-premises and in-cloud email management.
But while 2013 may be the year of the hybrid cloud, not everyone seems to have caught on. While 83% of organizations expect to move email to the cloud by 2014, only 22% plan to adopt the hybrid approach that Gartner Research, other analysts, and even the cloud providers themselves say is today’s simple reality. Only 22%.
Emails do a lot more than people think. More than half of them are now generated by machines—not people. They’re sent by airlines to confirm flights. They’re sent by copiers when low on toner. They even position satellites.
Managing this so-called machine-generated email in the cloud simply can’t be done without compromising security, compliance, system functionality, or even the entire messaging infrastructure. Heavily regulated organizations are at particular risk, because they have so many systems generating sensitive information.
To make it even easier for these organizations to adopt hybrid-cloud email, we partnered with Mimecast to provide a one-stop shop for hybrid-cloud email management solutions.
In fact, in looking back, I have to say Network World was not exactly right. The year of the hybrid cloud—for Sendmail, at least—started in 2012!
But don’t worry; we agree that it will explode in 2013, especially for email. And that 22% number–we expect that to increase significantly as enterprises begin to realize that a hybrid email architecture is the only viable way to reap the benefits of the cloud.
What are your cloud email migration plans?