84 million emails are going to be sent in 2006. 33 million of them will be spam.


IDC, in a study, has predicted that almost 84 million emails are going to be sent in 2006. 33 million of them will be spam.

Mark Levitt, research vice president for IDC’s Collaborative Computing service, said, “Email has faced its challengers ““ viruses, spam, regulations ““ and emerged with its reputation bruised, but intact. Except among teens and young adults and inside certain fast-paced work environments, email is staying ahead of instant messaging in terms of usage.” [Source]

The size of business email volumes sent annually will be more than 3.5 exabytes in 2006.

According to IDC, the factors that determine the future status of email are:

– Preserving the value of email throughout its life cycle while reducing the associated costs and risks.
– Minimizing the impact of real-time communications by providing low or no cost access to corporate and consumer email.
– Retaining a crucial role for email throughout the collaboration process.
– Raising the visibility of email content so that it parallels that of other enterprise application data and business processes.

The study provides information on the change in email usage based on email boxers and users by type, primary email box access methods, sent volume by purpose and type, and by size.

 

 

 

 

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