Last week at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, Facebook Chief Information Officer Tim Campos announced that Facebook deployed Microsoft Office 365 for a handful of reasons. From the Business Insider article:
“… key aspects of our culture are things like ‘be bold, move fast… Most importantly, ‘move fast.' That aspect of our culture is most important, and that's where Office 365 comes in.”
Campos also praised Office's ability to help Facebook's employees deal with the mounds of data that they generate both internally and externally by way of artificial-intelligence-driven tools like Microsoft Delve and Microsoft Exchange's Clutter feature for filtering unimportant messages.
The Clutter feature is nothing new, and it's been enabled by default in Office 365 for over a year. The idea makes sense: items identified by Office 365 as irrelevant – spam posts that get through, or mail that’s never read or accessed – gets placed in a Clutter folder, and doesn’t fill up a user’s mailbox. This can be very valuable to a company like Facebook, that has “mounds of data” to work with.

Clutter uses machine learning and user interaction to ensure that important messages get to your inbox, while low-priority messages get set aside for processing later. Administrators can also configure Clutter retention policies, as well as create rules to allow specific senders and messages to bypass Clutter completely.
What do you think? Is Clutter a helpful feature? Do you use it? Let us know.
Rich is the Director of Public Cloud Product Marketing at Barracuda. He joined the team as part of the acquisition of C2C Systems in 2014. Rich is one of Barracuda’s public cloud experts – he works directly with the cloud ecosystems and has been quoted in eBooks from Microsoft on public cloud security. He is also a frequent contributor to Barracuda’s own cloud blogs. For our cloud motions, he helps develop strategies and execution with our partners and sales teams.
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