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Published on Tuesday, 02 August 2011 18:32

Written by YJ

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Because email and messaging capabilities are so critical, they have in some respects
become like a utility:  for example like electricity. Email is so critical to the operation of
any organization that it no longer provides any substantive competitive differentiation
between companies. Like other utilities, then, the goal is to

1. ensure that service remains available as close to 100% of the time as possible while
2. simultaneously being provided as inexpensively as possible.

For many organizations, managing email internally is a thing of the past, just like producing one’s own electricity is a concept of the past.

A growing number of organizations are finding that the way to accomplish this is through the use of Microsoft Exchange as a hosted service, a model in which a remote third party provider manages all backend services for a flat monthly per user fee. The advantages of this approach for organizations that want to realize the benefits of Exchange are that uptime of the Exchange infrastructure can be very high and the cost of managing Exchange can be reduced significantly – typically more than 50% compared to on-premises management.

Further, the use of a hosted Exchange service allows an in-house IT staff to be deployed to other projects that will provide more value to the organization as a whole.

To find out more read "The Case for Hosted Exchange"

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