Private Label Hosted Exchange is a perfect way to resell hosted Exchange to your customers without the need of having to host a complex exchange infrastructure. Some providers offer Fully Managed Private label Exchange hosting, which allows you to offer Exchange service to your client’s .Your customers will never know that you & private label hosting providers are involved each other. You can buy Exchange hosting at low prices and sell it to your customers at a profit without the hassle of managing Exchange infrastructure.
Businesses from small scale to large scale are exploring ways to drive efficiencies and hosted exchange is becoming its preferred option. Radicati has predicted that Microsoft Exchange will continue to increase its market share of the global messaging software with 200 million users by 2009. So exchange hosting companies are equipping them to tap this opportunity by increasing revenues from existing & new clients.Read more here..
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Leader in Business Email Supports Hosted Microsoft Exchange on iPhone
with the Addition of ActiveSync
New York, NY-June 9, 2008-Intermedia, the worldwide leader in business email services, today announced immediate support for business email and collaboration features on the iPhone 2.0 software, through the addition of ActiveSync capability. Available upon the launch of iPhone 2.0, iPhone users, with Intermedia’s cost effective and hassle-free hosting services, will be able to access all of Microsoft Exchange’s rich, productive and secure mobile features through the iPhone, including always-synced email, calendars, contacts and more.
For businesses, the addition of ActiveSync to the iPhone means increased security. iPhone users, eager to use just one device for work and home, have previously accessed their corporate email through IMAP/POP3 functionality and by doing so have compromised corporate security through an insecure connection. By instead accessing corporate email via Exchange through ActiveSync capability, businesses can rest assured that their information is synced securely. In addition, ActiveSync enables remote wiping, which allows the administrator to remotely erase all corporate email or data should the device be lost or stolen.
“Data security is a serious concern for all businesses,” said Danny Essner, Director of Marketing for Intermedia. “Our extreme focus on protecting our clients from any email security risks is a primary reason why customers choose Intermedia, and we are happy that we can now also provide a secure solution for iPhone users through hosted Exchange and ActiveSync.”
While Apple products have traditionally been considered consumer-oriented, Apple enthusiasts have always been eager to integrate products such as the iPhone into their business lives. According to leading IT analyst firm IDC, the sale of converged mobile devices, such as smartphones with entertainment-oriented features, will grow from 7.3 million units in 2005 to 63 million in 2010 - a 763% increase in just five years. Now, with hosted access to Microsoft Exchange from Intermedia, and the addition of ActiveSync to the iPhone 2.0, users can easily set up just one device for work and play.
Intermedia offers hosted Microsoft Exchange plans, now completely compatible with the iPhone, for small to midsized business with 3 to 1,000 employees. Users can quickly and easily access full Exchange collaboration capabilities on the iPhone by activating ActiveSync through their HostPilot™ control panel. To learn more about Exchange access on the iPhone, please visit http://www.Intermedia.net/iPhone.
Businesses looking for a more cost-effective and manageable solution for enterprise-class email and collaboration solutions through Microsoft Exchange, should visit Intermedia’s Web site at http://www.Intermedia.net/Exchange.
About Intermedia
Intermedia is the worldwide leader in business email services. More than 25,000 small and medium-sized businesses trust Intermedia to manage their email, calendars and address books. A Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Intermedia is committed to best-in-class service and ease of management for businesses that depend on MS Exchange. Intermedia is headquartered in New York, NY with offices in Sunnyvale, California and St. Petersburg, Russia. For more information, visit www.intermedia.net.
GULF BREEZE, FL, June 2, 2008 - AppRiver, a leader in managed email security and messaging collaboration services, today announced that it has partnered with Florida Chamber of Commerce to help businesses in the state avoid the loss of critical email messages because of hurricanes or other natural disasters. This is the fourth consecutive year that AppRiver and the Chamber have teamed up to offer this service in conjunction with the arrival of hurricane season.
Since it first became available in 2005, the “Digital Disaster Preparedness” program has become an essential item on many companies’ disaster preparation checklist. “The Digital Disaster program allows businesses in harm’s way to quickly reroute their inbound messages to AppRiver servers where they will be securely held. Once the danger passes, or communications are restored, all held messages can be released and delivered to the corporate mail servers,” said Blake Gehres, Chief Technology Officer for the Florida Chamber of Commerce.
Registrations is very simple, it lakes less than 10 minutes, and once completed will enable AppRiver to monitor a company’s email server activity. If the receiving server is affected by a hurricane, AppRiver will begin queuing the business’ incoming email messages in one of its own securely located data centers until that company’s email servers are up and running again. Additionally, the company can also request for its email to be redirected elsewhere or made available online, so the business can remain functional during the storm and the post-storm recovery period.
According to CEO Michael Murdoch, AppRiver’s own experience during Hurricane Ivan was a key reason why the company developed the program.
“When a hurricane is headed your way, there are a lot of things business owners need to worry about” said Murdoch. “Our goal is to let them quickly and effectively protect their email - and still have time to take care of their families and employees.”
To access the free service, businesses need only visit the Florida Chamber web site (www.floridachamber.com) or the AppRiver web site (www.appriver.com) and click the button marked “Digital Disaster Preparedness.” Users will be guided through a simple process from that point or they can call AppRiver at 1-866-223-4645.
About AppRiver
Founded in April 2002, AppRiver - based in Gulf Breeze, Florida - is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider offering secure messaging solutions to businesses of all sizes. In addition to spam and virus protection, the company provides a complete managed service for Microsoft Exchange. With more than 30,000 customers around the world - and an impressive 97 percent customer retention rate since its inception - AppRiver is one of the largest email security managed service providers worldwide. In 2008, Red Herring magazine named AppRiver one of its top 100 companies to watch. The company was also named to CRN Magazine’s 2007 Emerging Tech Dynamos list. For more information, visit www.appriver.com.
Media Contacts:
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REDMOND, Wash. - May 27, 2008 - Microsoft Corp. is adding no-cost Microsoft Exchange Labs e-mail for students and alumni to its Live@edu online communication and collaboration applications tailored for educational institutions. Live@edu with Exchange Labs gives students and alumni access to a reliable and security-enhanced e-mail experience similar to what they may use in the workplace, while university IT administrators can benefit from additional security features and simplified deployment. By bringing proven technologies to current education systems, Microsoft is helping IT administrators build closely connected infrastructures and create exceptional experiences for students and educators.
Microsoft Exchange Labs Benefits IT Administrators, Students and Alumni Alike
Live@edu now offers institutions the option of giving their students and alumni an Exchange Labs inbox. Live@edu offers the following benefits to universities and students:
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Reliable communications. Universities can provide students with hosted e-mail, featuring up to 10 GB inboxes and 20 MB attachments. Students can also access their e-mail, contacts and calendar from Outlook Web Access and Microsoft Office Outlook, as well as from Web-enabled mobile phones, similar to what they may experience in the work force.
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Building blocks for collaboration. Additional Live@edu services that can be used for on-campus collaboration include shared calendars with free/busy lookup between students, student directories with administrative control to create distribution lists, and the ability to add faculty and staff who are using Exchange on-premise to student directories.
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Additional security. Live@edu with Exchange Labs also now allows message tracking to confirm urgent e-mail was delivered, and content filtering, which gives administrators the ability to block e-mail with objectionable content.
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Institution identity. Schools can deepen the relationship with students and alumni through an e-mail inbox with the school’s logo, a custom theme created by the institution and a school-branded e-mail address that students can keep after they graduate.
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“Having secure and reliable communications with our students is important to us,” said Russell Wood, IT director at Hinds Community College. “Microsoft Live@edu gives students an e-mail experience similar to what they will use when they graduate and gives the IT administrators more control over message security.”
Worldwide Momentum for Microsoft Live@edu Increases
Microsoft Live@edu, which also includes Windows Live Hotmail, Microsoft Office Live Workspace and Windows Live SkyDrive online storage, helps students manage their studies, share information and photos, collaborate with other students and faculty on projects, and stay connected easily with friends and family on campus and after they graduate.
As Microsoft continues to assist universities in better meeting their technology demands in an increasingly Web-connected world, institutions are signing up for Microsoft Live@edu around the world, from Japan to South Africa to Brazil to the United States. Since the launch of Live@edu in March 2005, thousands of universities, colleges and schools in 86 countries have enrolled in the program, and momentum continues to grow as universities discover the numerous benefits of deploying Live@edu.
“Providing our students with communication services marked by the UNINOVE brand and identity has been a dream and aspiration for us for a long time,” said Jorge Luis Romano, IT infrastructure manager at UNINOVE, a large university in Brazil, where more than 70,000 students now benefit from Microsoft Live@edu. “We considered several options and chose Microsoft’s Live@edu solution because it overachieved all of our expectations at zero cost. We now have the tools to develop a collaborative community with our own identity without having to worry about infrastructure.”
Another advantage universities have found with Live@edu is the ability to keep up with discerning students’ technology needs. Because students are more technologically savvy than ever before, they expect their school environments to have rich, high-quality communications capabilities, like those they use in their social lives. Limited budgets and prolonged deployment cycles, however, have made it difficult and time-consuming for colleges and universities to provide students with innovative communications. With Live@edu’s no-cost, Web-based technology, universities can now easily meet students’ technology expectations and, in turn, focus on providing students with the education and experience they need to learn and grow. Universities’ needs are as diverse as the students they attract, and Live@edu offers everything from basic e-mail to more sophisticated collaborative applications.
“Kagoshima University deployed Live@edu for its 16,000 users because of its operational excellence for managing large scales of e-mail and the value of comprehensive services, including SkyDrive,” said Professor Masato Masuya at Kagoshima University in Japan.
“The way students use technology is constantly evolving. E-mail, social networking, IM and texting are now all part of their digital experience,” said Anna Kinney, group product manager for Microsoft Live@edu. “Universities want to adapt to these changing e-learning dynamics, and Microsoft Live@edu innovations help ensure they are prepared for that challenge.”
Representatives from schools around the world will visit the Microsoft campus June 23-24 for Live@edu World, a gathering for Live@edu customers and technology leaders to discuss how they are utilizing the Web-based applications in the Live@edu suite to connect their students, faculty, staff and alumni for greater communication and collaboration.
“We are excited to partner with educators from around the world who are bringing the power of the Web to their campuses; Live@edu gets better year after year because of their input,” said Bruce Gabrielle, senior product manager for Microsoft Live@edu.
More information about Microsoft Live@edu can be found at http://get.liveatedu.com.
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Exchange Hoster’s Pain points with bandwidth
Exchange Hosting industry is becoming popular day by day, with growing number providers everywhere provide Messaging & collaboration services to customers around the world, these customers are mostly SME’s. Microsoft Exchange being the core component of this service, it has been evolving from old versions consistently to provide better functionalities, features and user experience. Now with Exchange 2007 server, users can do even better. However, what about the performance? Customers by and large work from different locations, such as on the road, in a meeting with their customers, while commuting etc. And these users often complain about slowness in accessing email client (e.g. Outlook). In exchange hosting scenario, all your customers have internet connections and this could high bandwidth ADSL or slow connections depends on customer’s location and internet infrastructure readiness. So, no matter the hosting providers increase the bandwidth and no of servers in its datacenter, customers still stuck with this basic performance issues - Latency, a nightmare word for every customers as well as hosting providers. Read more here.
AppRiver LLC (www.appriver.com), a leading provider of email messaging solutions, has been selected as one of the Red Herring 100, the most innovative private technology companies based in North America. The Red Herring editorial board selected AppRiver as one of 100 winners from a pool of more than 1,500 applicants. Nominees were closely evaluated on both quantitative and qualitative criteria such as financial performance, technology innovation, quality of management, execution of strategy, and integration into their ecosystem.
“We can see the exciting evolution of the technology sector reflected in the quality and variety of exceptional companies that we had to choose from in putting our list together,” said Joel Dreyfuss, editor-in-chief of Red Herring. “It was tough to choose just 100 winners from such a large list of excellent contenders, and we are very happy with the quality of the companies we selected as finalists.”
The 100 winning companies were announced today at the Red Herring North America event in San Jose, California, where the CEOs of the winning startups have been presenting their innovative ideas and technologies to an audience of leading entrepreneurs, financiers, and corporate strategists all week.
“We are pleased to be among the high-tech industry leaders and innovators represented by the Red Herring 100,” said Michael Murdoch, CEO and co-founder of AppRiver. “We got here by anticipating our customers’ needs and providing them with cost-effective on-demand solutions. That will remain our primary focus in the years ahead.”
About AppRiver
Founded in April 2002, AppRiver - based in Gulf Breeze, Florida - is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider offering secure messaging solutions to businesses of all sizes. In addition to spam and virus protection, the company provides a complete managed service for Microsoft Exchange. With more than 30,000 customers around the world - and an impressive 97% customer retention rate since its inception - AppRiver is one of the largest email security managed service providers worldwide. In 2006, Red Herring magazine named AppRiver one of 10 private security companies to watch, and more recently the company was named to CRN Magazine’s 2007 Emerging Tech Dynamos list. For more information, visit www.appriver.com.
AppRiver Contact:
Michael Hamstra
Director of Marketing
850-932-5338
mhamstra@appriver.com
About Red Herring
Red Herring is a global media company which unites the world’s best high technology innovators, venture investors and business decision makers in a variety of forums: a leading innovation magazine, an online daily technology news service, technology newsletters and major events for technology leaders around the globe. Red Herring provides an insider’s access to the global innovation economy, featuring unparalleled insights on the emerging technologies driving the economy. More information about Red Herring is available on the Internet at www.redherring.com.
Red Herring Contact:
Anam Alpenia
Red Herring, Inc.
650-428-2900
aalpenia@redherring.com
groupSPARK, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and the leading provider of private label hosted software services including hosted Exchange Server 2007, hosted SharePoint Services v3.0, and hosted Dynamics CRM, announced today that groupSPARK senior executive officer, Ravi Agarwal, will be speaking at the ISPCon Spring 2008 conference and trade show.
ISPCon Spring 2008 will be held at the Donald E. Stephens (Rosemont) Convention Center in Chicago, Illinois from May 13-15, 2008. The event brings together 2500+ internet industry professionals including ISPs, webhosting providers, VoIP providers and numerous other internet industry professionals to discuss all facets of internet business including ways to increase revenue and develop new business opportunities.
Ravi Agarwal, groupSPARK senior executive officer, will speak to attendees on Thursday, May 15, 2008 on ways for ISPs and the service provider community to successfully compete in the expanding hosted services arena. His presentation titled SaaS vs. Software + Service: How You Can Survive Microsoft’s Entry into the Hosted Services Market, will speak to the trepidation now felt by resellers of hosted services worldwide regarding Microsoft’s decision to enter the market with their own hosted services offerings. Mr. Agarwal will address the explosive growth in the market and offer strategies resellers can employ to stand apart from the competition and provide value added products and services to their small and mid-size business customers.
“The hosting industry is growing dramatically as more and more SMBs discover that they can pay a small monthly fee and achieved the same level of productivity as large companies by using enterprise class messaging and collaboration tools in a hosted environment. As a result, resellers are looking to take advantage of this trend and offer these services to their customers. However, the recent press surrounding Microsoft’s entry into the hosted Software as a Service market is making many resellers reconsider their decision as they are unsure whether they will be able to compete,” said Ravi Agarwal, senior executive director, groupSPARK division of mindSHIFT Technologies, Inc. “This fear is completely unfounded. There are many ways resellers can differentiate themselves and continue to thrive in this rapidly growing market. There is enough room for everyone to be successful.”
One of the ways that groupSPARK continues to thrive in a competitive market is to offer a full breadth of private label hosted software services through their reseller channel to SMBs who would otherwise be unable to deploy the applications in-house due to their significant cost. Services include hosted Exchange Server 2007, hosted SharePoint Services 3.0, and hosted Dynamics CRM as well as 2-way wireless synchronization with BlackBerry Enterprise Server®, Windows Mobile and Good Mobile Messaging. groupSPARK also offers all resellers live 24 x 7 technical support via phone, email and online chat which is staffed by experts based in the United States.
About groupSPARK
Located in Burlington, Massachusetts, groupSPARK, a mindSHIFT company, is a leading provider of SaaS services, such as Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services v3.0, and Dynamics CRM, which can be completely private labeled and resold by partners as a part of their own product offerings saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in development and support costs.
Its partners utilize groupSPARK’s turnkey private label platform to provide hosted services to their users in minutes. Partners are able to address scalability and uptime concerns by leveraging groupSPARK’s 100% uptime SLA, private label 24×7 U.S.-based support and proactive hardware and software monitoring capabilities. For additional information, visit www.groupSPARK.com.
IKANO Communications Inc., the nation’s leading aggregator of IP services, and DSLExtreme, California’s leading Internet service provider and a division of IKANO, announced today the launch of DNAmail.com. The new service will help small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) and organizations utilize web-based communication and collaboration tools including Microsoft Exchange 2007 Email, SharePoint Intranet , and Blackberry Enterprise Service.
“IKANO is now offering more solutions for businesses as our customers have asked for more,” said George Naspo, CEO of IKANO. “We are dedicated to delivering a variety of solutions that allow mid-sized businesses to utilize the same computing technologies as large enterprises, without the hosting costs. This is important launch for IKANO as we embrace ‘cloud computing’ in collaboration with leading technology companies for the benefit of our partners and end users.”
DNAmail provides Microsoft Exchange 2007 email technology to enable businesses and organizations a communications platform to enhance collaboration and productivity. Connecting employees to a secure central area for messaging, calendaring, and contacts also enables freedom for multiple office locations, employees and devices. DNAmail is a Blackberry Alliance Member and a Microsoft Certified Partner, with IT professionals that specialize in maintaining guaranteed uptime, spam filtering, and reliability of communication services.
“We are excited about the launch of DNAmail since we realize small businesses have evolved with the use of new technology and are looking for providers to help their email evolve as well,” said George Mitsopoulos, VP of DSLExtreme. “What business owners want is a mail server and communications platform they don’t have to manage or worry about. DNAmail will help businesses reduce technology and support expenses and maintain their existing branding.”
Small businesses can now have the same advantages large organizations do with Microsoft Exchange 2007 and Blackberry messaging support for everyone in the office at a low cost. DNAmail will also provide live and local phone support for employees. Plans start at $9.95 a month, with a 30-day free trial.
DNAmail also announced today a wholesale offering for organizations interested in reselling Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint intranet portals, and customer support services under their own brand.
“IKANO has invested serious time and technology to ensure the Exchange Email and Blackberry services are solid for our customers,” said Bonnie Bird, Director of Sales and Exchange Evangelist at DNAmail. “More and more companies are seeing the benefits of outsourcing their mail to specialists who can guarantee uptime and spam avoidance.”
DNAmail will also be launching additional services this year to assist SMBs with network productivity and maintenance. Visit DNAmail at HostingCon 2008 (Booth #322) on July 28-30 in Chicago. Call Bonnie Bird at 818.435.1107 or visit DNAmail.com to find out how DNAmail can help your business evolve with you.
About IKANO
IKANO, founded in 1999, is a provider of IP solutions including Internet access, billing, customer support, hosting, portal, and email services. IKANO makes it easy for service providers to maintain a unique brand while eliminating the hassle of maintaining network contracts, servers, and call centers. Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, the company has offices in Los Angeles, Seattle, and Toronto and offers services in the United States and Canada. IKANO is backed by leading industry investors, including Insight Venture Partners. Companies interested in learning more about IKANO should contact info@ikano.com, or call 877.492.0121. For more information, visit www.ikano.com
About DSLExtreme
DSLExtreme is the largest private DSL service provider in California. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Los Angeles, DSLExtreme offers a suite of online products and services for consumer and business customers throughout the United States. Services include broadband Internet access, email, Web hosting and data circuits, with superior quality connectivity and minimal drop-off. The DSLExtreme network serves tens of thousands of clients in over twenty-one major metropolitan areas across the country. For more information, visit www.dslextreme.com.
Once you have selected your Exchange Hosting provider, give some time on analyzing your hardware desing, though this part is done by your hoster. One of the key design elements which ultimately can improve the efficiency of Exchange is by isolating the Exchange database and the Exchange logs onto a different hard drive volume. This is because logs does write operation & databases read mostly. Hence separating these elements onto different volumes increases server performance substantially. This best practise should be followed even in smallest Exchange server implementations.Below figures shows some examples of how the database and log volumes can be configured.
On Server1, the OS and logs are located on the same mirrored C:\ volume and the data base is located on a separate RAID-5 drive set, although in a different channel. OS partition is cornerstone, doing many type of operations and consume more processing power. Putting Exchange logs along with it is not a good idea. Read More here
Exchange hosting providers are now offering hosting services based on Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 to its customers. Most of the customers have been waiting for SP1 before considering a complete move to Exchange 2007 from its previous versions (Exchange 2000/2003).
So what does the customer get as new features? Isn’t it the same old email, outlook web access, and mobile messaging? What else?
More or less the same as far as the basic user is concerned - the same old email, calendar, outlook web access but with a greater level of user experience. To those who run the business rather, IT managers, I would particularly highlight those features in terms of Disaster Recovery, Security and other aspects which could improve business functions. We will get into these new features & enhancements now. Read more
