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Here are four reasons you should run your business on our hosted Exchange 2010 service versus the competition’s out-of-date service:

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

Hosted Exchange from Smarthost

In-house Exchange and IT staff

Software licenses

Enterprise-grade hardware

24×7 support

Unlikely

100% Data Protection Guarantee as part of our overall 99.999% SLA

Tier-4 data center with redundant power, cooling and network connections

Regular backups

Possibly

Anti-virus, anti-spam

Possibly

Wireless options

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:

  • Securely access email remotely via the web or a mobile device like a BlackBerry or iPhone

  • View colleagues’ up-to-date calendars and schedule meetings

  • Assign and manage company tasks on central ‘to do’ lists

  • 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:

Exchange Server 2010

POP 3 /
IMAP4

Group scheduling

Send out meeting requests, then track and update them

Shared calendars and side-by-side calendar views

Access to personal and shared address books from remote locations

Single sign-on for email and network access

Connections over the Internet are secure

Some solutions

Server-side spam filtering

Some solutions

Ability to categorize email and flag it for follow up

Partial

Ability to add voting buttons to a messages

Automatic out-of-office reply

Ability to recall sent messages

Support for multiple-computer access

Partial

Access to email via Web browsers and mobile browsers, Outlook Mobile in Windows Mobile-based Pocket PCs, Pocket PC Phone Edition and Smartphones

Non-Microsoft products are typically required

Outlook Cached Exchange Mode for working with intermittent Web connection (eg dial-up)

Some solutions offer caching

Offline email, calendar, contacts, and public folder support

Partial

Access to public folders for sharing documents and information

Individual email folder access in IMAP

Basic email support for SMTP, POP3, and IMAP4

Easy management of Outlook and Exchange Server profiles across multiple machines to lower support costs

Plane Comparisons of features and pricing:

Feature

Standard

Advanced

BPS

Mailbox Storage (Per User)

5 GB

25 GB

25 GB

Price (Per User)

Call for pricing

Call for pricing

Call for pricing

Resource Mailboxes (Per Mailbox)

Call for pricing

1 included

1 included

ActiveSync (Per Device)

Call for pricing

Included

Included

Retention Policies (Per User)

Call for pricing

Included

Included

Wireless Policies (Per User)

Call for pricing

Included

Included

Company Disclaimer (Per End-user Acct)

Call for pricing

Included

Included

Message Mirror (Per End-user Acct)

Call for pricing

Included

Included

Compliant Journaling

Call for pricing

Included

Included

Office Communicator Server (Per User)

Call for pricing

Call for pricing

Included

SharePoint

Call for pricing

Call for pricing

2 GB included

How do I get Started?

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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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