Frost & Sullivan: Hosted Email Adoption in Asia Pacific to Accelerate as Service Gets Integrated into Cloud

Frost & Sullivan: Hosted Email Adoption in Asia Pacific to Accelerate as Service Gets Integrated into Cloud PR Newswire SINGAPORE, July 17, 2012 - Data Security Concerns Need to be Addressed for the Hosted Email Model to Gain Wider Acceptance SINGAPORE, July 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Hosted mailboxes are gaining wider representation in the mix of total mailboxes in the Asia Pacific, though its share was only 6 to 9 percent in 2010. Its lower cost of ownership, ability to improve employees' mobility, and multiple devices accessibility are helping it steadily build on the foothold it gained in the market. Significantly, hosted email's shift to cloud computing – both public and private cloud – has reduced its overall costs and enhanced its capability of disaster recovery and data protection. New analysis from Frost & Sullivan (http://www.enterprise.frost.com), Analysis of Asia Pacific Hosted Email Market, finds that the market earned revenues of US$101.4 million in 2010 and estimates this to reach US$234.7 million in 2017. "Enterprise hosted email service providers need to move their offerings into the cloud space and integrate them with other hosted/cloud unified communications (UC) components," says Frost & Sullivan Senior Industry Analyst Jessie Yu. "It also offers the advantages of greater efficiency, larger mailbox space, and not needing expensive software email license.