Spam causes financial loss and environmental damage - AMSTERDAM, 20th of January 2010. The amount of spam sent out last year caused an emission of carbon dioxide that is equal to drive around the earth 1.6 million times.
Spam causes financial loss and environmental damage
By Silvia Ott
Jan 20, 2010 - 3:20:10 AM
AMSTERDAM, 20th of January 2010. The amount of spam sent out last year caused an emission of carbon dioxide that is equal to drive around the earth 1.6 million times.
According
to a several investigations spam causes financial loss and damages
the environment. With a professional filter this can be reduced and
at the same time the environment is supported.
Spam
increases costs significantly, especially for larger organizations.
The German institute for Labor (IZA) calculated that the total cost
of spam for organizations is 1200 minutes (20 hours) of the working
time per employee per year.
Green
plans
According
to a recent survey, conducted by Forrester Research, 47% of the
respondents stated to have green IT plans or strategies. Another 30%
of the 900 IT-professionals that participated, were considering at
least one project. More than half
of all businesses ensure
that their technology purchases fulfill certain green criteria. “With
current technology changes, everything has to be adapted to support
the environment” according to Nils Decker from the email security
firm SpamExperts. “We can offer our customers our two strengths at
once: get rid of spam and reduce unnecessary waste”.
Professional
protection
With
a professional email protection the labor waste caused by spam will
be taken away entirely. According to a report of McAfee, the total
energy consumption related to spam could be reduced by 75%, if
everyone were to make use of a professional solution.
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