Posted by Amy Dugdale on Wed, Oct 07, 2009 @ 12:51 PM
Once in awhile, a blog post rolls around that is so profound, you can't help but blog about it. Eric Knorr - you rock. The excerpt from your entry that follows below is simply poetic -
It's time for e-mail to go. Out of the datacenter, pronto. Get the hand trucks, hold the door, and roll those mail servers outta here. Email is a storage hog, a time-suck to manage, a compliance liability, and about the least strategic thing imaginable. It's one of the few "services" that seems absolutely perfect for the cloud: a commodity with a well-known, pedestrian set of expectations. Please, let somebody else handle it.
And, then there's this ...
I just want e-mail to be isolated as an enterprise-class cloud service, with all the modern archiving and anti-spam and compliance features you could ask for and a massively scalable underlying server infrastructure IT never has to worry about. Why is that so hard? Yes, I know some companies can't outsource messaging for compliance reasons. But for everyone else, the time has come to show e-mail the door.
This all sounds familiar ... we hear the same thing from many of our clients each day. They are done managing email and archiving on-premise. If there's one service they're willing to move into the cloud - it's email - and understandably so.
On a related note, we're excited to see IBM throwing their hat into the cloud email ring with the intro of their new Lotus Live iNotes offering. Dear Lotus Notes -- Welcome to the cloud! There's plenty of room and the view is good. -- Sincerely, Your Friends at LiveOffice