Hosted Exchange How Outsourcing Exchange Can Improve Your Email Service

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2. Top Reasons to Outsource • Improve / Upgrade Existing Solutions • Focus IT Resources on Strategic Projects • Enterprise-Level Performance & Reliability • Mobilize Your Workforce • Predictable Monthly Operating Expenses

3. Improve / Upgrade Existing Solutions • Why Upgrade to Exchange 2007? • Better Functionality • Faster • More Reliable

4. Improve / Upgrade Existing Solutions • Why Upgrade to Exchange 2007? • Better Functionality • Improved Outlook Web Access • Improved Active Synch • Better Scheduling • Better Out of Office • Faster Searching

5. Improve / Upgrade Existing Solutions • Why Upgrade to Exchange 2007? • Faster • 64-bit Servers Improve Performance • Datacenter has 4 Gig-E Connections • Faster Searching

6. Improve / Upgrade Existing Solutions • Why Upgrade to Exchange 2007? • More Reliable • All Servers are in 4-Node Clusters • Improved Cluster Replication • Faster Searching

7. Improve / Upgrade Existing Solutions • Why Outsource to Hosted Exchange 2007? • Reliable • Simple • Fast • Predictable

8. Improve / Upgrade Existing Solutions • Why Outsource to Hosted Exchange 2007? • Reliable • Tier-4 Datacenter • Clustered Firewall servers • Clustered SMTP Gateway servers • Clustered Front-End servers • Clustered NetApp SAN • Redundant AD Domain Controllers • Clustered BlackBerry servers

9. Improve / Upgrade Existing Solutions • Why Outsource to Hosted Exchange 2007? • Simple • Keep Your Existing Email Addresses • System Already In-Place • Users are Added or Removed Easily

10. Improve / Upgrade Existing Solutions • Why Outsource to Hosted Exchange 2007? • Fast • Users can be Imported Today • Migrate at Your Own Pace • All at Once • A Few at a Time

11. Improve / Upgrade Existing Solutions • Why Outsource to Hosted Exchange 2007? • Predictable • Same Per-User Cost Every Month • No Surprises • No Overtime • No Unforeseen Hardware Costs • Far More Reliable Service

12. Focus Resources on Projects • Why Outsource to Hosted Exchange Rather Than Upgrade from 2003 to 2007? • Difficult • Expensive • Opportunity Cost

13. Focus Resources on Projects • Internal Upgrades from 2003 to 2007 • Difficult • Most Complicated Exchange Server • Difficult to Deploy • Difficult to Operate (No More GUI)

14. Focus Resources on Projects • Internal Upgrades from 2003 to 2007 • Expensive • Replace 32-bit Servers with 64-bit Servers • Exchange Server • Windows Server • Back-Up Software • Anti-Virus • Administrator (s) • Training for new Command Line Interface

15. Focus Resources on Projects • Internal Upgrades from 2003 to 2007 • Opportunity Cost • Major Project • Resource Intensive Design • Resource Intensive Deployment • Resource Intensive Maintenance

16. Focus Resources on Projects • Save Resources for Strategic Projects • Opportunity Cost • Major Project • Reallocate Resources for Other Projects • Other Projects Generate Revenue • Exchange is Utility

17. Enterprise-Level Performance • Maintain Top-Level Performance & Reliability • Fully Redundant • State-of-the-Art Datacenter • Fully-Focused Exchange Staff

18. Enterprise-Level Performance • Maintain Top-Level Performance & Reliability • Fully Redundant • Fully Redundant at Every Level • All Servers in 4-Node Clusters • Redundant Internet Connections • Redundant Power Supplies, etc. • Few Noticeable Hardware Issues

19. Enterprise-Level Performance • Maintain Top-Level Performance & Reliability • State-of-the-Art Datacenter • Tier-4 Datacenter • Hardened Physical Security • Redundant Internet Connections • Redundant Power Supplies • 24x7x365 Security

20. Enterprise-Level Performance • Maintain Top-Level Performance & Reliability • Fully-Focused Exchange Staff • Exchange is All Staff Manages • 24x7x365 Admin Staff • 24x7x365 Support Staff Change This if Your Staff is Not 24x7

21. Mobilize Your Workforce • Enable Your Users to Access Mail 24x7x365 • BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) • Active Synch • Good Messaging • Outlook Web Access 2007

22. Mobilize Your Workforce • Enable Your Users to Access Mail 24x7x365 • BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) • Full BES Functionality • Two-Way Wireless Synch • Synch Mail, Contacts, Calendars • View Office Documents • Encrypted Communications

23. Mobilize Your Workforce • Enable Your Users to Access Mail 24x7x365 • Active Synch • Two-Way Wireless Synch • iPhone • Windows Mobile • New Palm Treo

24. Mobilize Your Workforce • Enable Your Users to Access Mail 24x7x365 • Good Messaging • Two-Way Wireless Synch • Older Phones • Older Windows Mobile • Older Palm Treo • Phones that Need Outlook Mobile Access (OMA)

25. Mobilize Your Workforce • Enable Your Users to Access Mail 24x7x365 • Outlook Web Access 2007 • Users can Work Away from Office • Schedule Out of Office messages • Scheduling Assistant • Read Attachments in HTML • View Managed E-mail Folders • Search the Global Address List • Access Public Folders

26. Predict Monthly Operating Expenses • No More Surprising Expenses • No Emergency Maintenance • No Nights/Weekends Applying Patches • No Hardware Replacements • No Large Up-Front Investments

27. Summary • Improve / Upgrade Existing Solutions • Focus IT Resources on Strategic Projects • Enterprise-Level Performance & Reliability • Mobilize Your Workforce • Predictable Monthly Operating Expenses

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