Wednesday, 8 October 2008

SaaS, MessageLabs and Symantec

Way back in the day, I recommended using a little known startup company to scan and filter email messages... They were a company who grew from where I grew up and seemed to have their fingers on the pulse. They were the first ones to notice and inform on a particularly virilent virus in the early parts of this decade.....and now they really have broken into the big league...bought out by Symantec....

MessageLabs were the first company I knew adopting the SaaS model before Servoy and now
Symantec sees the further potential of the SaaS model for security services and following the close of the acquisition which will establish MessageLabs as a dedicated SaaS product group featuring MessageLabs full suite of services and Symantec’s current SaaS services: namely online storage, online back up and remote access.

Whoosh - at last a bit of good news for UK businesses... SaaS is described as one of the most impactful trends in software with a current estimated market size of $5.71 billion (in 2007) reaching $16.98 billion by 2012, representing 24.4 percent CAGR according to IDC1

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