Compass Says Increasing Size and Volume of E-mails Straining IT Resources

This just in from the “This is no Surprise” department:

Recent research from the global IT and business consulting group Compass shows that the size and number of e- mails are skyrocketing. This growth can have a significant impact on business communication, and has serious implications for executives responsible for planning and budgeting IT resources.

Two factors are driving the growth of e-mail: larger and larger files are being sent as attachments, and more and more people are storing these large files as messages in their inboxes. The weekly volumes of e-mail have tripled in the last three years and the average file size has grown from 81K in 2004 to 124K in 2006.

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