I was reading through some other SMB technology focused blogs today and ran across Bill Russell’s blog for his company, Pioneer Solutions Group. Over the past couple months, he’s written a couple posts about outsourcing email (here and here).
I’m a big fan of hosted email solutions. Whether it’s Google’s service or a hosted Exchange solution, it’s a rare situation where email makes more sense to keep in-house. Even if you have HIPAA or SOX compliance issues, think twice before assuming you have to host your own email server. Vendors exist that specialize in providing compliance services in a more secure, more reliable, more cost effective manner than you can do internally.
