123Together.com: Hosted Exchange

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>>123Together.com: Hosted Exchange

According to one hosted Exchange provider – Burlington, Mass.-based 123Together.com, “As a small or mid-sized business, it is important to look for a reliable and reputable hosted Exchange provider to ensure data security, scalability and guaranteed uptime which will help take your business to the next level of productivity and growth.”

But what are the advantages of using Microsoft Exchange as a hosted service? Like other SaaS (News - Alert)-based solutions, outsourcing e-mail communication to a hosted Exchange provider as opposed to deploying Microsoft Exchange in-house can save companies tens of thousands of dollars in costs, including the purchase of new hardware and software, maintenance support contracts, storage costs, hiring and training new personnel, ongoing administration and maintenance costs and system monitoring, including anti-virus and anti-spam filtering.

With a hosted Exchange provider, a company could be up and running with the latest version of Microsoft Exchange Server in minutes. (Consider that it could take weeks or months to implement an in-house solution.)

The company uses Internap’s (News - Alert) Tier-4 data center and its “Performance IP” service which reduces latency and routes customer data over redundant, high-speed backbones to provide faster delivery of e-mails around the world. It also uses the Microsoft HMC platform – the only platform design, tested and approved by Microsoft for Exchange Server hosting.