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Posted: 01 Oct 2011 11:52 AM PDT

Over the past five years, the amount of spam being delivered to email servers around the world has increased dramatically; currently over 90 percent of emails delivered worldwide are spam emails. This means that whilst you may be able to effectively filter emails in house, it will require increasing resources, to manage and maintain. Consider this; your enterprise receives 20,000 emails per day. That's 18,000 emails that must be analysed and inspected by your anti-spam software each day; then another system must scan each email and its attachments to ensure that they do not contain malicious software. At this point, an organisation should start to think about implementing a gateway type anti-spam server on separate hardware to deal with this burden. Whilst there is nothing wrong with this type of solution, it has its limitations. First, it's another piece of hardware to run, cool and keep secure – the server must be licensed and up to date at all times. It also must be monitored and kept under warranty. All of these costs can be avoided by moving to services that filter and deliver email in the cloud. Moving these services into the cloud can also have other benefits. In [...]