C2C survey.

C2C has released the results of a third-party survey including IT and non-IT personnel from organisations of all sizes, showing that the majority of corporate email users are responsible for managing their own mailboxes, resulting in significant loss of productivity. Almost a third of respondents have mailbox capacity limits set at less than 100 megabytes - very low considering today's email attachments can be several megabytes each.

Key survey findings:

*65 percent of survey respondents contend with mailbox quotas, and are forced to self-manage their email to stay operational.

*66 percent take their own measures to save email messages in order to ensure they aren't lost, with a majority storing email outside their company email system, in some cases even in personal/home email accounts.

* 67 percent need to search for an email that is more than three months old at least once a month, with 28 percent spending time searching about once a week or even daily. The survey also found that those who self-manage email to stay within quotas frequently delete messages, delete attachments, and/or create a PST file--a method used in more than half of organisations surveyed. h traditional technologies.

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