1. “Our Email is Always Down…”“Backup, Backup, Backup, do I need online storage?”Rackspace Hosted Email & Online Back up Solutions Overview Date: 04/16/2010
2. Facts About Email 90 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2009. 247 billion – Average number of email messages per day. 1.4 billion – The number of email users worldwide. 100 million – New email users since the year before. 91% – The percentage of emails that were spam. 95% – Peak spam levels late in the year. 24% – Increase in spam since last year. 224 billion – The number of spam emails per day (assuming 91% are spam Email stats from Radicati Group One could argue that Email is the number one form of business communication.
3. Issues with Email Non-profits experience the same email issues as for profit businesses Spam. Spam. And more spam. 2. Cost vs. Features 3. Archive Search and Retrieval 4. Viruses and Spyware 5. Content Security
4. What can I do to have a better Email Experience ? - Outsource Email Management Risk Reduction High Performance email solutions complete with multiple layers of email security Improved Staff Utilization Email requires a considerable amount of staff time due to the patching, fixing, updating, staying on top of spam/viruses, and so on. Staff is now free from dealing with Email issues to devote time to other high-value projects Lowered costs No Capital Expenses, no hardware or software to maintain, buy what you need, pay as you go Increased Service Levels and High Level of Accountability Providers have staff that will manage and monitor uptime of email systems Email retention and archiving Business continuity, regulatory compliance, legal response and e-discovery
5. Why Should I back up my computers and servers? Computer Disaster Hard drives fail, Computers crash Natural Disaster Flooding, Fire Human Disaster Accidents, Malicious employees, Theft
6. It’s all about being in control of your data.- Online backup solutions can help Why is this important? For Example Secure AES-256 Encryption + User Key