Why Consider Microsoft Exchange Hosting
Posted in Blog on February 22nd, 2010 by jasonlaloux – 2 CommentsNow that Microsoft Exchange 2010 is available, many business are looking at a considerable investment to upgrade their infrastructure. But the costs of doing so can be stifling. After all, in addition to actually migrating all your employees over to the new system, there also costs associated with ensuring that your IT staff are fully trained in how to configure and maintain the new system. Many businesses can get around this, however, by partnering with a reliable Exchange hosting provider and simply outsourcing all these headaches.
Why Upgrade?
When it comes to dealing with such IT upgrades, it’s easy for many business decision makers to say “well, if it ain’t broke, why fix it?” But there are actually 9 good reasons to upgrade to Exchange 2010 from whatever earlier version that your business is using. Specifically, Exchange 2010 offers:
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Reduced deployment cost: Exchange Server 2010 can help your business reduce costs by addressing common infrastructure requirements such as backup, e-mail archiving, mobile e-mail access, and voice mail.
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Simplified high availability and disaster recovery: Exchange Server 2010 has also introduce a mor esimplified approach to high availability and disaster recovery than previous versions, and this can help your business achieve new levels of reliability and reduce the complexity of maintaining business continuity.
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Easier administration and decreased help desk dependence: Another benefit of Exchange Server 2010 is that it provides new self-service capabilities that help your users (i.e. employees) perform common tasks without calling the help desk and taking up your IT team’s resources.
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Greater mobility: Exchange Server 2010 also offers a better universal inbox experience, letting your users with access all of their business communications from a single location.
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Decreased inbox overload and increased productivity: The latest release of Microsoft Exchange Servers also adds new productivity features that let your employees organize and prioritize their emails.
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Transformed voice mail: Microsoft Exchange 2010 can actually let your team creceive and preview their voice mail in text form right in their inbox.
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Simplified compliance: Microsoft Exchange 2010 also offers more efficient archiving, which will simplify compliance and discovery.
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Safeguards for sensitive information: Through centrally managed and enforced data protection and control features, Exchange Server 2010 makes it easier to encrypt, manage, and control your company’s communications.
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Reduced risk of malware and spam: Exchange Server 2010 features enhanced built-in defenses against junk e-mail and support for an array of third party security product.
Upgrading to Exchange 2010: Taking the Leap of Faith
If these are benefits that your business wants to enjoy, your decision to upgrade will then come down to some old fashioned number crunching. After all, as much as the upgrade is in an investment, and you’ll likely realize the ROI, we are in recessionary times, so some longer-term investments are better put-off until after the economy has rebounded before.
But there are ways your business can implement an upgrade, but not incur the costs of new hardware, data migration, and training your system admin and other IT staff. Specifically, by partnering with a recognized hosted exchange provider, your business can considerably reduce the costs of both the upgrade an ongoing system maintenance. read more »