Is Hosted E-Mail Right for Your Organization?

Another area of evaluation that should play to the natural strengths of hosted e-mail providers is that of scalability.

With data center space at a premium for many companies, sufficient resources for expanding user mailbox sizes and for conducting timely backups may be hard to come by.

The 25GB per account of storage that Google offers as part of its Google Apps Premier Edition is certainly on the high end among hosted mailbox providers, but it signals the sort of storage flexibility that's possible with the hosted model.

eWEEK Labs Executive Editor Jason Brooks can be reached at jbrooks@eweek.com.