
By Bharat Bhushan
Cloud hosted email services have come into wide use as the go-to communication and collaboration work tools for businesses far and wide.
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Digital native companies start from day one relying entirely on Microsoft Office 365 or Google’s G Suite and most established companies are in some stage of migrating to, or adjusting for, Office 365 or G Suite.
That said, Microsoft Exchange on-premises email servers – technology that once, not too long ago, dominated this space – remain in pervasive business use today.
In 2021, on-premises Microsoft Exchange Server mailboxes commanded a 43 percent global market share as compared to 57 percent for cloud Exchange mailboxes, according to this report from Statista. Some 11,800 computer software companies, 10,000 IT services vendors, 5,500 health care organizations and 3,200 financial services firms continue to maintain on-premises Exchange email servers, according to this report from Enlyft
What’s more, many of the organizations migrating to cloud IT infrastructure services are patching together hybrid email systems, part on-premises and part cloud-hosted.