{"id":20246,"date":"2016-02-02T00:17:36","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T00:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2016\/feb\/02\/gartner-argues-cloud-email-still-immature-gaining-traction\/"},"modified":"2016-02-02T00:17:36","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T00:17:36","slug":"gartner-argues-cloud-email-is-still-immature-but-gaining-traction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/gartner-argues-cloud-email-is-still-immature-but-gaining-traction\/","title":{"rendered":"Gartner argues cloud email is still immature \u2013 but gaining traction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(c)iStock.com\/merznatalia<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The cloud email market remains relatively immature with Microsoft ahead of Google in enterprise adoption, according to the latest figures from analyst house Gartner.<\/p>\n<p>According to email server domain records of almost 40,000 public companies worldwide, only 8.5% of firms polled use Microsoft, compared to 4.7% on Google&rsquo;s mail, with the remainder using on-premises, hybrid, hosted, or private cloud email systems.<\/p>\n<p>Gartner also argues a trend of industries using different vendors; regulated industries such as utilities, energy, and aerospace are likeliest to be Microsoft shops, while media, publishing and advertising companies are more Gmail-friendly.<\/p>\n<p>Nikos Drakos, research vice president at Gartner, argues that while it is still early days in cloud email adoption, growth is not slow. &ldquo;Companies considering cloud email should question assumptions that public cloud email is not appropriate in their region, size, or industry,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Our findings suggest that many varied organisations are already using cloud email, and the number is growing rapidly.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Gartner also found that wealthier organisations were more likely to use Microsoft; the Redmond giant has more of an 80% share of companies using cloud email with revenue in excess of $10 billion (&pound;6.95bn).<\/p>\n<p>This correlates with a study from BetterCloud, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2015\/jul\/08\/google-apps-or-microsoft-office-survey-argues-which-cloud-office-best-your-business\/\">published in July last year<\/a>, which argued a &ldquo;clear trend&rdquo; for larger organisations to run Office 365 as a cloud collaboration suite as opposed to Google Apps. For smaller businesses, the study argued, Google Apps was a more likely choice as it could be rolled out in one weekend, as opposed to Microsoft Office rollouts which were more of a hybrid deployment.<\/p>\n<p>One anomaly in the Gartner study was that, in industries such as travel and hospitality, the highest revenue firms were more likely to be on a cloud email solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(c)iStock.com\/merznatalia<br \/>\nThe cloud email market remains relatively immature with Microsoft ahead of Google in enterprise adoption, according to the latest figures from analyst house Gartner.<br \/>\nAccording to email server domain records of almost 40,000 pu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20246"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22899,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20246\/revisions\/22899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}