TMCnet Email Hosting Week in Review

“is currently the leading email platform for service providers, and with Oracle’s backing, we expect it will continue to see strong growth in this market.” Radicati expects the service provider segment to grow at a 15 percent compounded rate over the next four years.

More details are available in Radicati’s “Email Platforms for Service Providers – Market Quadrant 2011” report.

It’s a pretty well-known fact that businesses all around the world utilize email. However, did you know that as Web-based services continue to increase in popularity, email hosting as well as organization’s having their own email servers is a trend that is also continuing to rise?

Pretty easy to see why, as there are multiple benefits of powering email hosting in your own dedicated server with the major one being that you have the option to select exactly which features you need and those that you don’t, reported TMCnet’s Jamie Epstein.

However, according to a recent article by CloudTweaks, when you subscribe to a cloud email hosting service such as the one provided by SherWeb, users are no longer responsible for maintaining and upgrading the software they are using. Users will also see increased speed and much higher level of scalability with email that lives in the cloud. For more on this trend, click here.

Looking at email hosting news overseas, eight more Italian companies and public agencies have recently adopted Microsoft (News

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