Email, calendaring, collaboration, and mobility solutions are moving from corporate data centers to service provider networks. Service providers can realize far greater economies of scale than most businesses and deliver higher levels of service to more users at a lower cost; in fact, the fewer the users, the higher cost for each. Concentric Hosted Exchange is a fast, reliable and affordable solution for email, calendaring, collaboration, and mobility based on Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Microsoft Outlook® 2007. Concentric Hosted Exchange provides all of the benefits of Microsoft Exchange and Outlook 2007 without the up-front infrastructure costs or ongoing overhead.
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1.0 Executive Summary Email, calendaring, collaboration, and mobility solutions are moving from corporate data centers to service provider networks. Service providers can realize far greater economies of scale than most businesses and deliver higher levels of service to more users at a lower cost; in fact, the fewer the users, the higher cost for each. Concentric Hosted Exchange is a fast, reliable and affordable solution for email, calendaring, collaboration, and mobility based on Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Microsoft Outlook® 2007. Concentric Hosted Exchange provides all of the benefits of Microsoft Exchange and Outlook 2007 without the up-front infrastructure costs or ongoing overhead. Using a hosted service allows businesses of all sizes-from one employee to thousands-to benefit from the same email, calendaring, collaboration, and mobility features used by Fortune 500 companies around the world. Concentric Hosted Exchange provides: . Lower costs that are more predictable and flexible . Increased security, performance, reliability, and up time . Access to the latest, most advanced technology features The cost and productivity benefits of Concentric Hosted Exchange are incentivizing companies to upgrade at an accelerating pace. This trend is expected to continue until most businesses move to hosted messaging and collaboration services in the next three-five years.
2.0 The Business Case for Concentric Hosted Exchange More businesses are choosing hosted email, calendaring, collaboration, and mobility solutions over maintaining their own servers. While large companies own and operate their own infrastructure for email, calendaring, collaboration, and mobility, companies with fewer than 5,000 employees can realize dramatic savings using a hosted service. In fact, the smaller the number of email users, the bigger the savings. Over the past five years, the cost of owning and operating a messaging and collaboration system has increased dramatically. This is partially the result of rising operating expenses for power and cooling and growing storage requirements. The Radicati Gro... [download for more]
