As many of you know, I have always argued that MS online services only serve to complement our other solutions. One classic example of this is the Hosted Exchange Services - now before you run around with your fingers in your ears shouting "LALALA", have a look to see what they are.
These services work with an existing Exchange server - ala SBS, so there is no threat to the SBS system at all. We then offer 4 services which includes those listed below, but the nice thing is the price. On the How to buy page is lists the prices - these are per user and you can start at 5 users - oh, and this is real per user, so if you have 20 aliases for 5 users (eg sales, support etc) - that is 5 users:
Estimated Pricing
All prices below are based on estimated retail pricing (per user, per month licensing). This pricing would apply to a small business with as few as 5 users.
| Services | Prices | Comments |
Microsoft Exchange Hosted Filtering | $1.75 US | Exchange Hosted Filtering is a fully managed service that employs multiple technologies to help prevent spam, viruses, and phishing scams from reaching corporate networks and to help enforce corporate email-use policies. |
Microsoft Exchange Hosted Encryption | $1.90 US | Exchange Hosted Encryption is a policy-based email encryption service that uses customizable policies based on users, keywords, character patterns, attachment types, and more to identify messages that require encryption. |
Microsoft Exchange Hosted Continuity | $2.50 US | Exchange Hosted Continuity is an email continuity service that is always on, providing your user community with access to the last 30 days of email and the ability to send and receive email in real time, even when the primary email system is unavailable. |
Microsoft Exchange Hosted Archive | $17.25 US | Exchange Hosted Archive is a managed service that captures and archives external and internal mail, IM and Bloomberg mail according to your contracted retention period. When the retention period is met, messages are automatically destroyed. Hosted Archive includes an unlimited retention period for up to 3.6 GB per user, and extra storage is available based on per-GB pricing. Hosted Continuity is included with Hosted Archive. |
and more detail about the services funtionality:
Microsoft Exchange Hosted Filtering
| • | Active content, connection, and policy-based filtering |
| • | Multi-engine spam and virus scanning |
| • | E-mail queuing when server is unavailable |
| • | Low false positive ratios |
Microsoft Exchange Hosted Archive
| • | Support to help satisfy industry and regulatory retention requirements |
| • | Spam filtering before archival |
| • | Rapid search and retrieval |
| • | Fully functional backup e-mail system |
Microsoft Exchange Hosted Continuity
| • | Accessible e-mail during and after network outages |
| • | 30-day rolling historical message store |
| • | Searchable message store for easy recovery |
Microsoft Exchange Hosted Encryption
| • | Policy-based encryption from sender to recipient |
| • | Intuitive interface for minimal end-user training |
Features and Benefits
| • | Provide multiple real-time antispam and antivirus defenses |
| • | Help eliminate threats before they reach the corporate firewall |
| • | Provide backup e-mail systems for rapid disaster recovery |
| • | Help satisfy external requirements for e-mail retention and monitoring |
| • | Assist with internal policy enforcement |
| • | Respond quickly to e-discovery requests |
| • | Help eliminate up-front capital investment |
| • | Help free up administrator time to focus on other projects |
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David
Posted
Sun, Jul 30 2006 5:49 AM
by
David Overton