Thursday 29 July 2010
The number of respondents who deployed hosted security services grew by nine percentage points since last year. Over the next 12 months hosted anti-spam services, such as those offered by Kaspersky, Trend Micro and more recently Microsoft, are also expected to show their greatest growth. At the same time, today’s economic climate favors cost-effective solutions. IT expects to spend significantly less in 2009 than in 2008 on messaging. Nearly half (47 percent) of respondents expected IT spending to be lower in 2009 versus 18 percent who made similar projections last year.
Comprehensive security solutions will be particularly hot over the next 12 months. Although the vast majority of enterprises today deal with separate vendors for their various best-of-breed solutions (71 percent), the number of respondents preferring a consolidated comprehensive centrally managed messaging security solution double while individual best of breed solutions dropped significantly (to 33 percent of respondents). While enterprise users continue to spend a large percentage of their workday involved with messaging activities, the Internet remains a dangerous place for users.
