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Anti-Spam Market Growing at a Rate of 50%
A new study by the Radicati Group, Inc. shows that demand for antispam solutions grew by 50% in the last 12 months.
The latest study by the Radicati Group, Inc. "Anti- Spam Market Trends 2004 – 2008" provides market size, four- year forecasts, technology trends, emerging legislation, industry standards, and competitive information for the Anti-Spam market.
According to the study, the number of spam messages worldwide has grown an astonishing 115% from 15 billion in 2003, to 35 billion spam messages in 2004. Despite recent legislation, such as the US federal CAN-SPAM Act of 2003, corporate organizations and consumers are investing more than ever in anti-spam technology. The market for anti-spam solutions (including both anti-spam vendors and anti-spam outsourcers) is expected to top $979 million in 2004, an increase of over 50% from 2003. The market is expected to grow to over $1,740 million by 2008.
35 billion spam messages in 2004
In many cases, both corporate and consumer mailboxes are protected by more than one anti-spam solution, with a typical mailbox including 2-3 layers of ant i-spam filtering technologies. By year-end 2004, we expect 55% of all active mailboxes to have deployed an anti-spam solution.
According to our research, SPIM (IM Spam) will triple from 400 million messages in 2003 to 1.2 billion messages in 2004 as a result of a growing number of corporate and consumer IM users and a sharp increase in published IM names in corporate and public directories.
Overall, the anti-spam market is ready for consolidation as the market continues to transition from single solution providers to broader, more comprehensive secur ity platforms.05/2004, The Radicati Group
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