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I don’t think it comes as a surprise to anyone to hear that Irish SME’s find IT too complex, but the results of a survey commissioned by o2 are music to MY ears!

The results highlight that 21% of businesses are turned off by virus issues and 15% are fed up with spam.

Why is this good for us? Reference my last post about hosted anti-virus and anti-spam services taking this pain away for businesses. Of course an SME isn’t going to have IT resources in-house to maintain and update the security of employees desktops (unless it’s an IT SME of course) and therefore relying on an internal IT ‘handyman’ to manage this on top of his existing work is a process doomed to ‘delusions of adequacy’ from the start.

Why not outsource this pain? Give it to a company who invests in world-class systems and provides 24×7 support and uptime for your email … screening out viruses and spam? Of course I’m pimping our wares here, but the fundamental principle to mean is the logical choice. Aside from all the other benefits of on-site engineers, great infratructure and access-anywhere email services, the annoying spam and virus emails will be banished - and it’s likely a cost-benefit analysis would show massive savings over using internal email systems.

(Ken our financial guy might have something more numbersy to say about that!)

It’s funny … when I joined hosting365 I had just setup Roundcube as my webmail client (I was a customer before I became an employee!) and it took about 30 mins (and I’m not a techie!), so naturally I thought it could be deployed within the same time for all customers.

Clearly I was wrong … there’s so much more to consider when innovating for a 30% of the Irish market than when playing with webmail for 1 person

However, after much work and testing (remember Roundcube is still beta) we’ve launched it for ALL OUR CUSTOMERS!

Just go to webmail.hosting365.com, and enter your email address and password - it’s that simple! No need to enter domains, no need to go through control panels.

In case you’re interested, the reason it couldn’t be launched in 30 minutes, is that we process 40 million emails a month, so you can image the impact of a IMAP based webmail client on our infrastructure!

Innovation is hard .. much harder in a big company .. but it’s worth it, and as you can see (ref: FREE BLOG PLAN !!!!) we’re really trying.

Expect to see more innovations over the coming months! In fact, why not use this blog for what’s it’s really mean’t - and post in the comments the kind of innovations YOU’D like to see from a hosting company. PLEASE!!!