Curious facts about email
While browsing around, I ended up following a link that took me to an Exchange hosting company, Intermedia.NET (by the way, I'm in no way affiliated with this company). What I found curious and decided to blog about is that the Intermedia.NET site displays in the footer some Industry Facts about email and messaging systems in general. Hoping that I don't violate some sort of copyright stuff, here's the list of those curious facts:
- “Microsoft Exchange is the dominant email server for middle market companies”
- “A week without E-mail is more stressful and traumatic than either a minor car accident or divorce”, CFO.com, John McPartin, CFO IT June 22, 2004
- “Email administrators spend an average of 2 full days/week managing email server backups, 1 full day/ week recovering archived messages and attachments for end users”
- “31% consumers rely on spam blocking software”, E-Quad News
- “60% of an organizations’ intellectual property is in the Email System”, StorageInc. Magazine, Greg Arnette September 2003
- Osterman Research: “The typical user stores more than one-half of his/her critical business information within the confines of the messaging system”
- “Worldwide storage of compliant records will increase from 376 petabytes in 2003 to more than 1,600 petabytes in 2006”
- “Average corporate E-mail user sends and receives about 10 megabytes of data per day”
CFO.com, John McPartin, CFO IT June 22, 2004
- “Estimated cost to recover email from up to 823 back-up tapes… $1.1 million - $1.7 million”, NewGov Solutions, Christopher Mauldin, 2003
- “It takes 77 minutes a week for an employee to manage his/her mailbox, such as cleaning out old messages, filing old messages or attachments, etc”
- “62% of Fortune 1000 are standardized on or moving to Exchange.”
- “It takes 27 minutes for a user to delete or archive enough messages in order to be able to use the messaging system again after hitting a 'quota Limit'”
- “It takes 8.2 minutes for a user to find an email that is older than two weeks”
- “In 2001, the average business user spent 2.6 hours per day reading and managing email”, Ferris Research
- “In 2003 SPAM Cost US Businesses $10 - $87 Billion Dollars”, Ferris Research/Nucleus Research
- “60% of business critical information is stored within corporate messaging systems, up from 33% in 1999”, StorageTek Survey
- “The average business user receives 25 email messages per day; increasing 10% per year”, IDC, Worldwide Email Usage Forecast 2002-2006
- “Email traffic is growing between 10%-25%”, IDC, Worldwide Email Usage Forecast 2002-2006
- “A typical 3,000-user email system will handle more than one terabyte of message traffic annually”, IDC, Worldwide Email Usage Forecast 2002-2006
- “Managing a typical email system for a 100 person company takes 85% of a senior technician's time”