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The Challenge: Collaboration without Complexity

If you require collaboration - and any organization with at least a few employees does - Exchange Server with Outlook client is your best option. Unfortunately, an in-house installation and maintenance of an Exchange Server is too costly and complex for small or even medium companies. Exchange is a server-based application that requires an Active Directory infrastructure. An investment of thousands of dollars is required for hardware, not to mention knowledgeable IT personnel to support it. Research shows that managing a typical e-mail system for a 100 person company takes 85% of a senior technician's time. Due to its advanced features, Exchange takes more effort to configure and manage, especially when you require features like Internet access.

The Solution: Exchange Hosting

Up until a few years ago, small and medium companies had few options for enabling business messaging for their organization. Now, with Mi8 Exchange Hosting, any organization can take advantage of the same tools and benefits previously reserved for large enterprises. For a low, fixed and predictable per user monthly fee, you can reap the benefits of Exchange for comprehensive messaging and collaboration, in an enterprise-class infrastructure with guaranteed service levels.

Benefits
In-house Exchange versus Hosted Exchange from Tempest
Thousands of Dollars
Cost of Software
Included
Thousands of Dollars
Cost of IT hardware
Included
Days or even weeks
Time to get up and running
Instant
Unlikely
24x7 maintenance
Yes
No
Guaranteed uptime
Yes
No
Server located in advanced datacenter
Yes
Time Consuming, often skipped for other tasks
Regular Backup
Yes
Time Consuming, often skipped for other tasks
Anti-virus, anti-spam
Yes
Seperate Licenses and Servers Required
Wireless Options
Yes
Costs
In-house Exchange versus Hosted Exchange from Tempest
All items must be purchased.

Total cost for a small installation = $20,000 or more

Servers
All items included as standard.

Total cost for a small installation = $11.95 per month for each user

Storage

Backup

Software License

Email Security

IT Staff for Deployment

IT Staff for Maintainence

Quality Physical
Environment, Cooling and Power
Reliability
In-house Exchange versus Hosted Exchange from Tempest
One server - all emails depend on this
Servers
Cluster of servers - if one stops working, the others take over
One or two hard disk - all email depends on these
Data Storage
Large cluster of drives which automatically share workload if one fails
Manual - sometimes slips due to time pressures
Backup
Automatic and frequent
Updates not always made frequently enough
Email Security
Continuous 24 x 7 updates
Single data line to the Internet
Data Connection
Multiple connections, direct to Internet backbone
Low-quality environment, power, air conditiong systems
Physical Environment
Tier-4 data center
Features
In-house Exchange versus Hosted Exchange from Tempest
Purchase seperate (expensive) servers and software licenses, install them manually
Wireless Email
Add instantly through online control panel
Either a time-intensive in-house effort or another external service to manage
Archiving
Add instantly
Purchase and install additional disk drives
Extra Disk Space
Add instantly
Additional cost for software and maintenance
Advanced Anti-Spam
Add instantly
Additional cost for software and manitenance
Anti-Virus
Included Standard
Seperate service to manage or self-deploy
Fax via Email
Add instantly
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