Hosted email services

[ken]

Hello,
Our CIO is contemplating outsourcing our email to a hosted provider. Does
anyone have any experience with hosted email services? thanks in advance,
--
ken

[Mark Arnold [MVP]]

On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:10:06 -0700, ken <kendk...@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>Hello,
>Our CIO is contemplating outsourcing our email to a hosted provider. Does
>anyone have any experience with hosted email services? thanks in advance,

Do you want hosted or hosting?
It depends on how many of you there are of course and what your
Internet connectivity is. If there are shed loads of you, the link is
small but the guys are on the road then it's a fab idea. If the link
is huge then are you looking at restructuring your bandwidth?
There are dozens of reasons you could, should, shouldn't can't etc.
etc. do it.

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Sure - a lot of companies offer this, and it can work really well. It can
also get pricey. Much depends on your budget & needs.

www.liveoffice.com
www.intermedia.net
www.mail2web.com

etc.

[ken]

thanks for the reply. I've never used hosted email before, so I'm not real
keen on the subject. Our setup is as follows:
900 user accounts; some of which are service accounts in excess of 5-10 gig.
We can't implement quotas just yet.
blackberry server, owa server, active sync incorporated on email.
not sure on bandwidth they offer, was just looking for more info before we
meet with the sales folks who are pushing it.
--
ken

[Ed Crowley [MVP]]

And the companies can go out of business and take your e-mail with them. Be
sure to get a credit check!
--
Ed Crowley
MVP - Exchange
"Protecting the world from PSTs and brick backups!"

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
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[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Ed Crowley [MVP] <curs...@mvpsnospam.org> wrote:
> And the companies can go out of business and take your e-mail with
> them. Be sure to get a credit check!

Yeah, that too.

[Mark Arnold [MVP]]

On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:46:01 -0700, ken <kendk...@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>thanks for the reply. I've never used hosted email before, so I'm not real
>keen on the subject. Our setup is as follows:
>900 user accounts; some of which are service accounts in excess of 5-10 gig.
> We can't implement quotas just yet.
>blackberry server, owa server, active sync incorporated on email.
>not sure on bandwidth they offer, was just looking for more info before we
>meet with the sales folks who are pushing it.

Then a service where you just gave your email to them to host on their
equipment would be pretty stupid and commercial insanity. By all means
have a service where they host your equipment but check it out very
carefully.

[Andrew Sword [MVP]]

Here's a list

http://www.exchange-hosts.com/exchange/exchange.asp

I would get requirements from your CIO and compare it with applicable
companies services. Find out how much your CIO wants to spend.

"ken" <kendk...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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[Just Askin]

My experience is that hosted Exchange services for businesses (not
individuals) is an option for saving time not money.

A multi-gig mailbox with BES will be far beyond the 10-15 dollar a month
mailbox you see advertised. Times a thousand will be very costly. And where
is your data anyway?

Better to outsource implementation and managment of your in-house service.
Our company implemented ~ 500 mailbox solution -- Windows Mobile, BES, OWA,
Outlook Anywhere for a comapny that needed a flexible solution and that
needed to serve national subsidiaries. We did it with two Exhange Servers and
a T1. After the implementation the company pays us to maintain the setup. The
licensing is purchased yearly via an MS OVL. With antivirus its ~ 30k? / yr
plus ~ 12k a year for our services. At the end of year three the licensing
costs can go to $0 if they choose not to continue Sofware Assurance.

They have full control of their data and a highly flexible solution whose
cost structure does not change every time they want to add storage or an
Exchange feature or integrate additional application.

I think hosted Exchange can be a fine solution for very small offices or
smaller organizations that do not have a physical space.

[Oliver Moazzezi [MVP]]

Hi,

I'm Senior Exchange Architect for Cobweb Solutions. We provide Hosted
Exchange, this is our core business. We are the largest provider of Hosted
Exchange in Europe, and a Microsoft Gold Partner.

We provide OWA, ActiveSync, Journal Archiving, and full MAPI / RPC over
HTTPs access. If you want to find out more, www.cobweb.com.

We're currently working with Exchange 2007 and will have this available
Q1/Q2 2008.

Mention my name for an extended trial.

Oliver