Do You Know Benefits of Microsoft Hosted Exchange Servers

Hosted Exchange allows organizations and businesses of any size to benefit from the business-class email and collaborative features offered by Microsoft® Exchange without the headache and costs of an in-house server solution.

This hosted model is a pay-as-you-go cloud-based model, where there are no upfront investments in hardware and software. Another benefit is that with the hosted Exchange model, you have the so-called redundancy of Exchange servers. If the in-house Exchange server fails, or goes down, there is no backup Exchange server. Redundancy means that if an Exchange server goes down, your Hosted Exchange services continue to function.

The Hosted Exchange service is fully outsourced to a Hosted Exchange provider. One of the Hosted Exchange features is that it lets you access your emails, contacts, task lists and documents from anywhere, through any device, as long as you have access to an Internet connection. You will still enjoy the same features and benefits from your in-house Exchange server, but without the disadvantages that come with an in-house Exchange server.

For most small business owners, email is mission critical. In fact, Gartner and Symantec research shows that up to 75% of a company’s intellectual property resides in its email and other messaging applications.

Such an important part of your business, email simply has to work, be fast and always be accessible from anywhere. This means being able to access your email and calendar directly from your cell phone, BlackBerry or other mobile device, so you’re always connected to your business.

But as critical as email is to most organizations, it is important to remember that managing your email infrastructure (i.e., mail servers) is almost never directly related to the products or services you sell. It’s not the company’s responsibility nor strength to make sure your Exchange email is working, To manage this in-house can be both time consuming and expensive.

The good news is that there are Hosted Exchange providers that offer the hosted Exchange services for small businesses. These Exchange services were once only reserved for the biggest corporations only.

A Hosted service, also known as Software as a Service or SaaS, is software that you access through the Internet. Hosting providers store the information on their own servers and manage the entire system for you. This helps your to drastically reduce the time and energy you normally spent on keeping your email up and running.

When it comes to managing email, more and more businesses are turning to SaaS solutions for help. For example, many businesses are opting to deploy Hosted Exchange 2010, a cost-effective alternative to managing an in-house email server. However, not everyone has realized the benefits and features of the Hosted Exchange solution, and it’s proving to be an expensive lesson.

The fact is all businesses already have too much on your plate. Between meeting ever increasing needs of the customer, generating new business, worries about employee issues and managing the day-to-day finances of the organization, do you as a business owner really want to concentrate on whether your Exchange server has the latest online virus update installed? More and more small businesses are simply outsourcing the Exchange service, leaving the associated burden and headaches to a Hosted Exchange provider.

In most cases, if an organization had gone with Hosted Exchange 2010, they would have saved 88% and paid 60% less for his Exchange service in the first year while enjoying exactly the same features and benefits.