Advent of Data Centers, and Cloud Computing opens up a whole new infinite window of opportunity for IT Infrastructure. It liberates us from small time computing and space constraints. I still remember how we treasured the fact when Yahoo! Announced to increase the mailbox size from 25MB to 100MB in April 2004. Google Mail used to lead the bandwagon by providing 2 GB space. And then almost every tom dick and harry email provider offered unlimited mailbox size.
I wonder when the IT companies will start looking at ways and means to making this available to an average employee. I am constrained with 100MB storage on Exchange Server and there is no way I can retrieve emails older than 6 months unless... I keep taking backup manually. It becomes really frustrating when I have to search something that I sent last year to my clients. Taking a backup on my PC and synchronizing the emails with Laptop again is a big pain.
E-mails is the most critical means of running every day business. I wonder if putting a restriction on email box for people will *not* have an impact on business. Every time I miss an email / have to re-create information in my email; I end up wasting my precious time. Either that gets billed to the clients or makes me work long hours if I don’t want that to happen. Think about the magnitude of effort when 80,000 employees spending 15 minutes every day re-creating information in emails. It will be 20,000 man hours i.e. 2500 man days. And if we look at it from Cost perspective; (Assuming average pay of US $150 per person per day) it will be US $375000. Let’s assume we are supposed to find opportunity cost of this time spent by assuming Clients are charged US $65 per hour for 8 hours per person every day. It will total to US $1,550,000 (1.55 Mil) worth of revenues *Daily*!
You see, now it makes sense to you.
Wouldn’t it be great if IT companies who brag about setting trends in the industry pay a little attention to bring the change in their own organization?
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