Buying Guide for Cloud-based E-mail

eSecurity Planet just published Diana’s Cloud-base E-mail security buyer’s guide:

Sit down with the IT security team of almost any organization these days and you’ll probably hear one hot topic come up again and again – cloud-based e-mail. Organizations have used cloud-based anti-malware and spam filters for years, but until recently most have been reluctant to move mail servers, such as Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange, out of the enterprise data centers. Concerns about security and control of the servers have outweighed perceived benefits of a cloud or off-premise solution.

No more. It’s a new decade and a paradigm shift is in full swing – e-mail is moving into the cloud at a rapid pace. The shift to cloud E-mail has been fueled by cost concerns and made possible by the rapidly maturing offerings in rich collaboration and communication suites like BPOS (Business Productivity and Online Standard Suite) and Google Apps. A wide variety of organizations and enterprises have already made the switch: Klamath County Oregon and Swedish Red Cross are BPOS customers, Capgemini, Genentech, Motorola Mobile Devices are using Google Apps for Business, and Northwestern, Notre Dame, and Wesleyan are Google Apps for Education users.

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