Majority of users unsatisfied with their e-mail experience

Wide Area Networking This newsletter is sponsored by Arsenal Digital Solutions Traditional Backup vs. On-Demand Data Protection Services: Critical Questions for IT Decision-Makers When deciding on a data protection solution, budget limits, service quality, and compliance requirements all weigh on the minds of IT leaders. A single overlooked issue can mean the difference between disaster and continuous operations. In this Webcast, Doug Chandler of IDC will explain how many companies have evaluated their data protection choices in today's market and made a successful transition from in-house backup and recovery operations to service-based solutions. Click here to listen to this webcast today! Network World's Wide Area Networking Newsletter, 07/10/07 Majority of users unsatisfied with their e-mail experience By Steve Taylor and Jim Metzler Arguably the most annoying factor for all of us is that constant stream of offers for products boasting that it will “enhance” our lives in one way or another. And even more amazing is the fact that *somebody* must respond to these spam ads; otherwise the spammers wouldn’t bother to send them! That aside, spam continues to be one of the biggest Internet bandwidth hogs, and most products designed to deal with spam are marginally effective at best. And even the best products still must be implemented on your servers and you have to download all of the traffic before you can filter it. (Yet another case for the oft-resisted move to network-based services?) Our colleague Peter Brockmann of Brockmann & Company recently published the results of some research on exactly how much spam is affecting our lives, and the results are quite impressive. The first finding is that there is a tremendous gap between the extent to which e-mail is important to the respondents’ business, with 83% reporting that it was “very important,” while only 21% of the respondents are satisfied with their e-mail experience. Manage Insider Security Threats Experts say 75% of security threats come from inside your organization. Watch the latest Network World Editorial Perspectives Webcast today, "Security From the Inside," and learn which technologies and processes best protect your intellectual property and assets inside the perimeter. Click Here to View In case anybody was wondering, e-mail is now by far the singular most important communications tool. In fact, according to Peter’s research, e-mail is a key tool for 86% of his survey respondents, while mobile telephony ran a poor second at 60%, and desktop telephony came in a very poor 45%. In the near future, we’ll hear directly from Peter concerning his proposed methodology for quantifying spam and its impact on productivity. In the meantime, if you would like to get a preview, you can get a copy of the report at Webtorials.   What do you think? Post a comment on this newsletter

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Contact the author: Steve Taylor is president of Distributed Networking Associates and publisher/editor-in-chief of Webtorials. For more detailed information on most of the topics discussed in this newsletter, connect to Webtorials, the premier site for Web-based educational presentations, white papers, and market research. Taylor can be reached at taylor@webtorials.com Jim Metzler is the Vice President of Ashton, Metzler & Associates, a consulting organization that focuses on leveraging technology for business success. Jim assists vendors to refine product strategies, service providers to deploy technologies and services, and enterprises evolve their network infrastructure. He can be reached via e-mail. This newsletter is sponsored by Arsenal Digital Solutions Traditional Backup vs. On-Demand Data Protection Services: Critical Questions for IT Decision-Makers When deciding on a data protection solution, budget limits, service quality, and compliance requirements all weigh on the minds of IT leaders. A single overlooked issue can mean the difference between disaster and continuous operations. In this Webcast, Doug Chandler of IDC will explain how many companies have evaluated their data protection choices in today's market and made a successful transition from in-house backup and recovery operations to service-based solutions. Click here to listen to this webcast today! ARCHIVE Archive of the Wide Area Networking Newsletter. BONUS FEATURE IT PRODUCT RESEARCH AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Get detailed information on thousands of products, conduct side-by-side comparisons and read product test and review results with Network World’s IT Buyer’s Guides. Find the best solution faster than ever with over 100 distinct categories across the security, storage, management, wireless, infrastructure and convergence markets. Click here for details. PRINT SUBSCRIPTIONS AVAILABLE You've got the technology snapshot of your choice delivered to your inbox each day. Extend your knowledge with a print subscription to the Network World newsweekly, Apply here today. International subscribers, click here. SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES To subscribe or unsubscribe to any Network World newsletter, change your e-mail address or contact us, click here. This message was sent to: networking.world@gmail.com. Please use this address when modifying your subscription. Advertising information: Write to Associate Publisher Online Susan Cardoza Network World, Inc., 118 Turnpike Road, Southborough, MA 01772 Copyright Network World, Inc., 2007