Should Your Email Live In The Cloud? A Comparative Cost Analysis

Air Date: Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Cost: $250

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Who should attend: Information & Knowledge Management professionals

Description:

Cloud-based collaboration services have come of age. Microsoft's entry into the market for hosted Exchange and SharePoint, IBM's announcement of cloud-based Lotus Notes and Bluehouse, and Google's maturation as a supplier of enterprise email in the cloud signal the arrival of enterprise.

Now that our analysis of costs and workloads is complete, we are presenting two teleconferences on alternate days to answer the question — should your email live in the cloud?

The first teleconference on Monday, January 26, 2009, focuses on the email delivery alternatives and which email workloads and applications you should consider running in the cloud. The second teleconference on Wednesday, January 28, 2009, focuses on the fully loaded costs of running email on premise versus in the cloud.

This teleconference presents a comprehensive model for calculating the true costs of your on-premise email system and compares the costs for providing email services to different kinds of workers — mobile executives, information workers, and occasional users. The model further allows you to model your workforce and email ancillary service needs and calculate the differences between on-premise and cloud-based solutions.

Agenda:

• What are the fully loaded costs of running your email system on premise?
• Can cloud computing service providers beat that price?
• What should firms large and small do to take advantage of cloud computing costs?

Vendors mentioned: Google, IBM, and Microsoft

Related Research:

Talking To Your CFO About Cloud Computing

by Ted Schadler, October 29, 2008

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