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The advantages of using an oursourced hosted anti-junk mail server.

The amount of spam continues to go up and this means that a large share of an organisation’s capital resources and bandwidth are “stolen” from them. Outsourcing their e-mail to a hosted service will help them get their resources back and re-spend them on productivity.

Internet is a core resource and a vital daily part of both business and private acitivities, however, if it suddenly consists of a lot of ilegitimate email-s and junk, then its becomes irritating and frustrating to both the IT department, the users and in the end the entire company.

With the spreading of web and easily accessible and comprehensible to every age group people, the volume of spam e-mail has exponentially increased and with that, the cost of cleaning unsolicited e-mails from inboxes. The cost of deleting spam is usually underestimated by people as it takes a couple of seconds to remove a spam e-mail from inbox. But even imagine a situation of removing tens or hundreds of thousands of spam e-mails could be fearsome.

Unwanted e-mails do not just play the role of being annoying, they have a major side effect on the performance of an entire organisation ocuupying network and abusing bandwidth. Every single spam message increases bandwidth cost - worst case spam consumes more than 50% of your entire network.

Organisations - from big corporations with internal dedicated department handling IT security to small and medium companies, that only use a small share of the yearly budget on online security - are suffering from a slow and unproductive network In addition, both national and regional governments have taken serious actions towards passing spam preventing legislation, however, their this has proven to be insufficent because World Wide Web crime continue to run with new and more andvanced technology.

Spammer have set up their underground base with access to widespread networks of mail servers combined with advanced and custom technology. A number of studies have shown that spam are draining financial resources and posting security threats to organizations by exposing their networks to malware, spyware and other malicious codes.

These online threats highlight the need of installing effective hosted junk mail solutions on mail servers to reduce operation costs and to protect networks from collapsing. Businesses can better guard themselves against online threats by hiring services of outsourced hosted servers.

Outsourcing to a hosted service offers several pros e.g. the freed time that companies regain and the fact that you no longer need to handle any technical software, hardware, integration and maintenance issues. Trained and experienced personnel keep and eye on their systems 24/7 and ensure removal of all spam before it is passed to the company’s internal network and the end users.

The responsibility removing all spam before it reaches the end users is now placed at the outsourced hosted mail server, and understanding the entire process is now much easier for less technical users.

Author:Julia Sue-Beck