Hosted Exchange – Can You Afford Not To?
- More than a quarter of SMBs believe that sales would be impacted after only 1 hour without email.
- A third of major in-house email outages leave staff without email for more than 24 hours.
- 35% of email outages come as a result of server failure.
Email is now an essential business tool, so downtime is a serious problem. This is why companies are increasingly turning to ‘hosted’ Microsoft Exchange. Here are four compelling reasons:
Total cost of ownership
As well as vastly superior uptime, quick implementation and easy maintenance, hosted Exchange also offers smaller companies a much lower total cost. Consider the following comparison:
| Total cost of solution over 2 years for 25 users | In-house Exchange solution |
Hosted Exchange from Integrity IT |
|---|---|---|
| HARDWARE/SOFTWARE | ||
| Front-end Server | $4,500 | Included |
| Exchange Server hardware | $5,500 | Included |
| Backup domain controller | $4,000 | Included |
| Exchange 2007 Server license | $699 | Included |
| Windows 2007 Server license | $999 | Included |
| Bandwidth | $500 | Included |
| LICENSING | ||
| Exchange 2007 user licenses | $1600 | Included |
| Windows 2007 user licenses | $800 | Included |
| Anti-virus | $750 | Included |
| BACKUP HARDWARE/SOFTWARE | ||
| Backup server | $2000 | Included |
| Backup software | $1000 | Included |
| PERSONNEL | ||
| Administrators/Technical support ($40,000/year salary) | $80,000 | Included |
| TOTAL COST OVER 2 YEARS: | ||
| Total cost: | 25 users @ $24.99 /user/month |
|
| $98,948 | $14,994 |
Hosted Exchange add-on services
One huge benefit of hosted Exchange is the range of simple and cost-effective add-on services. Where companies with in-house Exchange face huge IT management complications, hosted Exchange makes these headaches disappear.
- BLACKBERRY
- GOOD MOBILE MESSAGING
- ACTIVESYNC
- ANTI-SPAM
- ARCHIVING
- FAX VIA EMAIL
- ADDITIONAL DISK SPACE
Hosted Exchange gives your business cost-effective, enterprise-grade email on demand – plus add-on services previously available only to large corporations.
Our Hosted Exchange Datacenter
When you host your business-critical email system with Integrity IT, your email and data will be hosted in one of the world’s premiere datacenters. It includes all the latest technology in server, data connectivity, power, cooling, security and infrastructure.
The datacenter is equipped with the latest environmental control units that give a 100% SLA-guaranteed temperature and humidity within a certain range. It also uses the most advanced fire-suppression systems available. The datacenter has an 18-inch raised floor and is zone 4 certified for earthquakes.
Our datacenter is a carrier-neutral facility with two diverse network entry points and a direct Internet backbone connection. Failover arrangements ensure that data connectivity never goes down. With our hosted Exchange, you always have reliable access to your server, both from your desktop or via Outlook Web Access wherever you travel.
As a world-class datacenter, our premises are closely monitored and guarded, 24x7x365. Sophisticated pan/tilt CCTV cameras cover every part of the datacenter and access to our servers is restricted to a limited number of authorized engineers.
Security is strictly enforced using the very latest technology, including man-trap technology between lobby and datacenter, motion sensors and controlled ID key-cards, as well as security guards stationed at every entrance to the site.