| E-mail outages rise significantly in 2003
For those in the South and East, e-mail outages took their toll in 2003, due to a worse-than-normal hurricane season and a range of power outages, including the wide-reaching Northeast Blackout. The survey findings revealed that 56.1 percent of those that work in the South and 54.3 percent of those in the East were without e-mail up to four times in 2003. E-mail is a critical tool for people at work, with nearly 40 percent of those surveyed indicating that they ‘can’t live’ without e-mail, while another 25.8 percent indicated that e-mail is ‘important’ for what they do at work. “These findings demonstrate that
e-mail has become critically important to our lives and our work,
but it remains vulnerable, with many workers inconvenienced and
unproductive because of e-mail downtime in 2003,” said Adam
Dell, founder and chairman of MessageOne. “Today’s businesses
must be prepared with an email continuity solution that affordably
solves the e-mail outage problem – guaranteeing e-mail will
be there when they need it – no mater what.”
•Date:
17th December 2003 •Region: N.America •Type:
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