Hosted Exchange Solution
We are excited with our newest cloud base hosted exchange solution for small midsize business with 5 or more users.
What is Hosted Exchange Solution?
Hosted Exchange email, collaboration, scheduling, calendaring is an enterprise communication tools that have become a critical factors to the success of any business. Unfortunately, small- and mid-size businesses (SMBs) often lack a large IT budget or in-house team to implement and maintain the sophisticated messaging software they need. Yet SMBs need this critical toolset in order to succeed in the marketplace.
Microsoft Exchange is used by the majority of large corporations for their email, calendars, contacts and files. Exchange powers the full collaboration functions of Microsoft Outlook 2007, such as group calendars, contacts and file-sharing.
Through our unique partner relationship, only Smarthost Design Technologies can offer hosted Exchange 2010 before it release at this time. You will get a free copy of Outlook 2007/Entourage, plus Outlook Web App 2010. Add-on BlackBerry, iPhone or Windows Mobile devices/ Windows phone – all for a flat fee.
Here are four reasons you should run your business on our hosted Exchange 2010 service versus the competition’s out-of-date service:
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Our partner Multi-million-dollar infrastructure. As part of our 99.999 percent uptime SLA, we now offer a 100 percent data protection guarantee. This assures there are multiple copies of your customers’ database, stored across multiple different SANs, located in two geographically dispersed data centers, plus back-up copies of your company databases in each data center. It’s a level of protection for your data that is unmatched in the industry. Smarthost Collocated partner is SAS 70 Type II Certified, giving you the confidence that your company email/data are with a world-class secure platform.
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The power and reliability of Exchange 2010 with our migration support. Move your company’s email data to the latest version of Exchange 2010, with support and specially-designed migration tools and resources to simplify the process.
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Offer your controls with our control panel. Your can add or delete users, distribution lists, mobile devices or company contacts anytime via the web using a out control panel no more waiting for the IT support team.
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Expert support standing by. We provide you support business level support. We support you so you can focus on your customers and build your business.
Three options for you to choose from: Standard, Advanced and Business Productivity Suite (BPS)
Standard plans are ideal for businesses that require ready-to-go Exchange hosting with few or no add-ons. Add-ons are offered a la carte so you can select and pay for only the features you need giving you a cost reductive option.
Advanced plans are for businesses requiring advanced controls, data center selection to accelerate email delivery, integrated user management, compliance options, and more.
Business Productivity Suite (BPS) plans are ideal for companies who require productivity and collaboration features. With this offering, critical enterprise services are included in price per mailbox as well as SharePoint and Office Communication Services (OCS).
What’s included in hosted Exchange 2010
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Hosted Exchange from Smarthost |
In-house Exchange and IT staff |
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Software licenses |
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Enterprise-grade hardware |
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24×7 support |
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Unlikely |
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100% Data Protection Guarantee as part of our overall 99.999% SLA |
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Tier-4 data center with redundant power, cooling and network connections |
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Regular backups |
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Possibly |
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Anti-virus, anti-spam |
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Possibly |
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Wireless options |
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Separate licenses and servers needed |
WHAT THIS MEANS FOR YOUR EMAIL
People running Exchange as their email server typically use Outlook as email. Among many advanced features, this lets them:
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Securely access email remotely via the web or a mobile device like a BlackBerry or iPhone
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View colleagues’ up-to-date calendars and schedule meetings
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Assign and manage company tasks on central ‘to do’ lists
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Manage contact information of employees and customers and access it anytime
Exchange is a quantum leap from basic POP3 or IMAP4 email, which is most suited for home and personal use, and makes your team much more productive through constant access to email, shared calendars and contacts
To help you understand the productivity-boosting options that hosted Exchange 2010 offers, here is a comparison of Outlook/Exchange 2010 versus basic email options:
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Exchange Server 2010 |
POP 3 / |
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Group scheduling |
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Send out meeting requests, then track and update them |
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Shared calendars and side-by-side calendar views |
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Access to personal and shared address books from remote locations |
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Single sign-on for email and network access |
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Connections over the Internet are secure |
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Some solutions |
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Server-side spam filtering |
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Some solutions |
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Ability to categorize email and flag it for follow up |
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Partial |
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Ability to add voting buttons to a messages |
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Automatic out-of-office reply |
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Ability to recall sent messages |
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Support for multiple-computer access |
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Partial |
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Access to email via Web browsers and mobile browsers, Outlook Mobile in Windows Mobile-based Pocket PCs, Pocket PC Phone Edition and Smartphones |
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Non-Microsoft products are typically required |
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Outlook Cached Exchange Mode for working with intermittent Web connection (eg dial-up) |
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Some solutions offer caching |
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Offline email, calendar, contacts, and public folder support |
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Partial |
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Access to public folders for sharing documents and information |
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Individual email folder access in IMAP |
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Basic email support for SMTP, POP3, and IMAP4 |
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Easy management of Outlook and Exchange Server profiles across multiple machines to lower support costs |
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Plane Comparisons of features and pricing:
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Standard |
Advanced |
BPS |
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Mailbox Storage (Per User) |
5 GB |
25 GB |
25 GB |
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Price (Per User) |
Call for pricing |
Call for pricing |
Call for pricing |
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Resource Mailboxes (Per Mailbox) |
Call for pricing |
1 included |
1 included |
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ActiveSync (Per Device) |
Call for pricing |
Included |
Included |
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Retention Policies (Per User) |
Call for pricing |
Included |
Included |
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Wireless Policies (Per User) |
Call for pricing |
Included |
Included |
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Company Disclaimer (Per End-user Acct) |
Call for pricing |
Included |
Included |
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Message Mirror (Per End-user Acct) |
Call for pricing |
Included |
Included |
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Compliant Journaling |
Call for pricing |
Included |
Included |
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Office Communicator Server (Per User) |
Call for pricing |
Call for pricing |
Included |
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SharePoint |
Call for pricing |
Call for pricing |
2 GB included |
How do I get Started?
Join us for our weekly Friday Web cast coming soon to lean more or contact us today.
Areas Covered
We provide a range of computer support, IT consulting and network services in Silver Spring, Beltsville, Lanham, Bowie, Upper Marlboro, Columbia, Elkrigde, College Park, Alexandria, Arlington, Washington, Glen Dale, Bethesda, Rockville, Laurel, Ellicott City, Glen Burnie, Clinton, Fort Washington, DC Harbour, Hyattsville and Collesville.
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