While standard E-mail hosting providers like your major ISP provider or a low-cost, budget re-sellers are usually fine for home and personal use, the demands in a business environment are very different.  Simply put, major providers focus on volume and are typically not managed services.  Additionally, they provide little, if any, personal support or customized filtering to suit business requirements.

The largest number of complaints we receive from businesses that are utilizing unmanaged
E-mail hosting services is the huge amount of SPAM they receive on a daily basis.  Coincidently, this is just the tip of the iceberg to a much larger hidden network problem they are unaware of.  If a typical business receives an enormous amount of SPAM, then its likely that a number of those SPAM E-mails contain Viruses, Trojans or other malicious security threats.  One mistaken click-of-the-mouse by an unsuspecting user could trigger a malicious operation and open the door of your entire network to the rest of the world and certainly the unscrupulous hacker that sent the e-mail.  Additionally, open holes in your network security would certainly leave your business vulnerable by exposing sensitive information or providing unauthorized access and loss of network control to anyone exploiting the security breach.

Consider this:  If a typical business employee spends half-an-hour a day on business E-mail, and 75% of the messages received are SPAM.  Then it’s a safe assumption that the majority of the employees time on e-mail is spent sorting-out the SPAM from the legitimate messages that need attention.  If a typical employee earns $30,000/year,  then the actual cost to the business is $5.40 per day to have that employee filter SPAM and make network security decisions on behalf of the business as to whether or not to click on that tempting “valuable offer” they received.  That’s over $ 1,400.00 per year just to filter through SPAM.  Multiply this by the number of employees utilizing E-mail and you can easily see that unmanaged E-mail hosting is actually an enormous expense and a legitimate security risk to businesses. 

Computer Associates recognizes that businesses need both reliable E-mail and advanced E-mail filtering.  Our Managed Business E-mail Service utilizes customized, Multi-layer filtering with automatic trends detection and learning capabilities to ensure unwanted SPAM is caught and removed before ever reaching the E-mail server and its ultimate destination allowing only justified E-mail pass through.

CAi Business E-mail is affordable and reliable and there is no need to change current business
E-mail addresses.  Please contact our sales office to receive pricing on E-mail hosting or include Business E-mail with one of our Website Packages or NetCare Service plans.