02/03/2026
In 2000, email was simple.
You had an email server—maybe Exchange, maybe something else. It sat in your office. IT managed it. Email worked.
The decisions were straightforward: how much storage, how many users, done.
Now? Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace? Which license tier—and do you understand the seventeen different options? What about email security—because the built-in protection isn't enough anymore? Archiving for compliance? Data loss prevention? Encryption? Phishing simulation? Advanced threat protection?
And here's what most people don't realize: Microsoft 365 doesn't fully back up your email. If someone deletes something—or a ransomware attack encrypts your mailboxes—Microsoft's retention policies might not save you.
The vendors in this space? Dozens of them, all plugging gaps that Microsoft and Google leave open. All with overlapping features. All with different pricing models.
You just want email to work. But "email" hasn't been simple in years.
That's why we created VENSEARCH. We live in this ecosystem every day—the platforms, the gaps, and the vendors that fill them. We don't claim to know every option out there, but we're constantly learning so you don't have to navigate it alone.