E-mail crushing mobiles

​Oslo: Norwegian employees have spoken: If they have to get by without either e-mail or their phones for three days, mobiles go out of the window. “Norway would come to a standstill without e-mail,” says Eirik Pedersen, Proact’s Director of Sales and Marketing.

It is a popular notion that Norwegians are entirely dependent on their mobiles, and the more functions new mobiles have, the more naked we feel without them. This perception gets a shot across the bows in a new survey.

As part of the Storage Barometer, an annual report compiled by YouGov on behalf of storage specialists Proact, almost 200 Norwegian IT staff were asked “If you had to work for three days without either your phone or your e-mail, which would you choose to do without?” 68% answered that they were willing to manage without their phones, while just 32% were willing to dispense with e-mail. 

Productivity plummets

“The dependency a lot of Norwegians feel as regards their mobiles is peanuts compared with how we feel about e-mail. If e-mail is down one day at work, productivity plummets,” says Eirik Pedersen at Proact IT Norway.

The reason for this is obvious, according to Pedersen. “For many people, e-mail is by far their most important channel for maintaining contact with the rest of the world. Major decisions are made at meetings, while e-mail is used to determine and coordinate thousands of minor matters. In this regard, the phone is not a satisfactory replacement for a lot of people,” he points out.

120 billion

More than 120 billion e-mails were sent the world over last year, and the numbers of e-mails are increasing by 30% every year. This takes up huge amounts of storage; amounts which are steadily growing. In the Storage Barometer, more than one in three respondents named e-mail as one of the areas which has seen the greatest increase in storage over the past few years.

“E-mails with massive attachments are a problem. If you have a 10 MB file that you then forward to eight of your colleagues, you are actually copying this file eight times in addition to any copies that your colleagues may store in their own folders,” explains Pedersen.

He underlines the fact that intelligent solutions provide major potential for savings. One solution to this problem is what is known as deduplication, which ensures that files are only stored once. All copies saved of such files are just pointers in reality. “A lot of resources and space are saved in this way,” emphasises the storage specialist.

(Pressenytt)
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Contacts:

* Proact IT Norge AS, Managing Director Marit Fagervold, tel. +47 22 89 23 89 / +47 92 69 59 67

* Proact IT Norge AS, Eirik Pedersen, Director of Sales and Marketing, tel. +47 22 89 23 89, mobile +47 930 34134

About Proact Proact is a specialist in storage, archiving and securing large volumes of mission-critical information. As an independent integrator, Proact provides systems, support and consulting services within our focus area of data storage and archiving. The Proact Group has more than 300 employees and conducts business in Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. Proact was founded in 1994 and its parent company, Proact IT Group AB (publ) has been listed on Nasdaq OMX Stockholm since 1999 under the symbol PACT. Additional information about Proact is available at www.proact.eu.

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