The future of email storage is in the cloud

Grazed from Bizjournals. Author: Richard Pinson.

Although it has been around for some time, cloud computing has gained popularity over the past few years, and the business world is embracing it. One of the fastest areas of the shift to the cloud is with email. The demand for remote access from a variety of devices — tablets, smartphones and laptops — has contributed to this trend, as has widespread usage of cloud-based email solutions such as Gmail.

There are numerous benefits to moving to cloud-based email services. Maintaining in-house email servers require higher expertise and security knowledge that ultimately becomes prohibitively expensive. Moving away from an in-house solution allows IT staff more time to focus on other initiatives. The cloud service provider that handles email is responsible for the ongoing hardware and storage maintenance, administration and security requirements…

With cloud storage, the user is also able to copy virtual images from the cloud to the on-premise location and vice versa, allowing for an abundance of storage…

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