Reducing spam remains the No. 1 concern for IT professionals on the e-mail front, but security and migration issues are also top priorities for 2003, according to a recent survey. In a survey released by the Radicati Group Monday, roughly . . .
Reducing spam remains the No. 1 concern for IT professionals on the e-mail front, but security and migration issues are also top priorities for 2003, according to a recent survey. In a survey released by the Radicati Group Monday, roughly 52 percent of the 50 responding corporations said reducing spam is mission No. 1 during the next 18 months. On average, 24 percent of all incoming corporate e-mail is spam, according to Radicati's report titled "Corporate Messaging Survey, 2003-2005."

But that's not the only e-mail issue causing massive corporate headaches--and offering channel partners potential services opportunities. Roughly 30 percent of the IT professionals surveyed said improving security against information leaks and hackers is another major objective in the messaging and collaboration space, while 28 percent agreed that migrating and upgrading users to new messaging software is high on the list of things to do over the next year and a half.

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