{"id":945,"date":"2014-02-13T15:00:58","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T15:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/?p=945"},"modified":"2014-02-13T15:00:58","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T15:00:58","slug":"will-your-small-business-email-be-hosted-or-in-the-cloud-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/will-your-small-business-email-be-hosted-or-in-the-cloud-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Will your small business email be in the cloud this year?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"smb-tech-trends\"<\/a>Is your email on premise or hosted? Any plans to make a change this year? \u00a0In its \u201cCatching up to the Clouds\u201d<\/a> report issued last June, IT pro community Spiceworks noted that among small businesses \u201cemail is getting some new digs.\u201d \u00a0Among the 500 IT professionals from small and midsize businesses in North America and EMEA surveyed for the report, hosted email deployments grew to 46 percent in 2013 from 42 percent in 2012. Over the same period, on premise email deployments decreased to 49 percent from 52 percent.<\/p>\n

The move to hosted services reflects the growing adoption of cloud-based <\/a>services on the part of small and mid-sized business for a number of reasons, the Spiceworks survey points out. Most notably cloud-based email:<\/p>\n