Move Your E-Mail Hosting to the Cloud

Charlie Schluting’s latest article on Enterprise Networking Planet explains how and why you should migrate your e-mail to a cloud-based host:

The thought of switching a large (or even small) business’s e-mail to hosted providers like Google or Microsoft often meets with a lot of resistance. You might think security would rank as the number one concern, but in practice the big show stopper usually ends up being implementation. Moving millions of old e-mail messages and thousands of accounts is a daunting task.

Migrating all of your existing e-mail doesn’t have to be difficult. The big three providers, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo, all provide many options to help alleviate the pain associated with moving an entire company’s e-mail infrastructure.

He goes on to explain how to approach migration with a good overview of the steps involved. This article is a good read for anyone considering making the migration and illustrates just why you should bring your e-mail into the cloud.