According to experts at TrendLabs, spam now makes up close to 95% of all email and continues to grow. In the first three months of 2008 spam rates almost doubled over rates observed at the end of 2007 and TrendLabs predicts that average daily spam volumes will increase by 30 to 50 billion messages per day within the year.

Most companies already have some form of legacy antispam and email security product in place. These products are most often traditional email security appliances or software products with inherent hardware capacity limits to handle large spam volumes. Once the amount of spam exceeds this limit, the on-premise solution will rapidly become overloaded, which in turn significantly slows email delivery.

This traditional model also allows spam and other email threats to be introduced into the company’s network environment, and adds significant infrastructure costs, such as bandwidth and storage, as spam consumes staff and network resources.

Too often, organizations face a trade off between lower user productivity and having IT staff spend a greater percentage of each day maintaining, tuning and troubleshooting email security products.

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