The common wisdom concerning e-mail these days is that it’s all heading into the cloud. After all, it’s difficult to manage and, as a basic utility of computing, in and of itself it doesn’t provide a lot of strategic value.
But Sendmail CEO Don Massaro would beg to differ with conventional cloud computing wisdom when it comes to e-mail in large enterprises. While Massaro concedes that e-mail delivered via the cloud will be a fairly common approach for small-to-medium (SMB) businesses, larger corporations are going to think long and hard about the legal and regulatory implications of such a move.
The issue that Massaro says will result in most large corporations refraining from putting too much data in the cloud is the existence of “Federal Letters,” otherwise known as National Security Letters. Under the provisions of the Patriot Act, these can be used to require carriers to turn over records and data concerning individual customers if asked to do so by the Federal government.
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Source: itbusinessedge.com
By: Michael Vizard
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