A little over a decade ago there were limitations on being able to access e-mail that was not within the purview of virtual private networks. However, technology continues to grow all the time and now there is a massive explosion of cell phones and cloud computing solutions that will provide you with easy access to hosted Exchange e-mail.

The added benefit is the several measures that are taken for security. This works at bringing down the extensive number of networks that an IT administrator will have to supervise. The first version of Quest Software’s (News - Alert) MessageStats was released in 2001. The main idea was to provide assistance to core business requirements. This has been done with an impetus to messaging. Recently they celebrated a decade of innovative e-mail reporting and analysis.

In a release, Nick Nikols, vice president and general manager, Windows Business Unit, Quest Software, said, “The continued innovation of MessageStats over the past decade has met the needs of more than 17 million users who needed help completing a wide variety of projects -- everything from assessing the need to support a mobile device platform, to analyzing the impact and size of assets to be migrated to a new messaging platform. At Quest, we are proud to have been the source of this help for 10 years, and we plan to continue innovating to meet the messaging challenges of the future."

With the constantly rising number of mobile phones in use, as well as increase in the demand for cloud computing, it is quite the possibility that enterprise IT departments will soon lose momentum over their own corporate network. This fact and the constant reduction in budgets requires that IT managers do more with less.

Ulf Trolle, service area manager for Unified Communications (News - Alert) Projects, Logica, said, “MessageStats provides the reports we need from a single interface, which saves us a great deal of time. We can even have reports generated automatically. Our operations staff has found MessageStats very easy to use. It is very easy to generate any new report that we need."