Hosted Exchange Partners, Microsoft & related Professionals in the hosted services industry are gearing up to meet up at Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois, for HostingCon 2007, which has been scheduled from July 23-25, 2007. HostingCon 2007 tradeshow is focused on the hosted services industry. Read more..
I recently wrote a blog post about the importance of infrastructure in Hosted Exchange scenario. The post was all about hitting the right questions to the Hosters and validate whether hosters have the right infrastructure strength to host your MS Exchange messaging services reliably & securely.
What should you expect from them on the infrastructure side? Here are some of my takes in short:
- High Availability solutions such as fully clustered exchange servers offering maximum uptime.
- State of the art Data center facilities which secure and protect your information.
- They should be able to provide 24×7, 365 days support.
- Avoid single point of failure by all means – so fault tolerance, clustering and redundancy are key
- Facilities & systems should be highly secured as it hold your customers confidential
Read more here as I hope these questions can help you get answers to great deal.
Explosive growth in Hosted exchange industry shows the strong demand and trend among customers (including enterprise and large corporations) for Hosted Exchange services. The challenge here for the organization is in choosing the right partner for their Hosted Exchange Service needs. Sometimes, It’s confusing as there are many web hosting companies, data center firms and sometimes telecoms vendor’s beginning to offer Microsoft hosted exchange services. I am in the initial stage of preparing a guide to help you get a clarity in this field. These are the basic issues you must take into account when choosing your service provider in Hosted exchange. I will keep working on this topic to come up with a complete guide. Read more..
I am starting another blog section in msexchange.org - this is going to be exclusively on Hosted Exchange Service
Most of the time, I will be commenting on the Hosted Exchange industry, looking at pros and cons and express my thoughts focusing all the while on Exchange Hosting. My target audience in this blog is mostly Exchange administrators.
See you then!