Why turn to hosted email?Are you considering a move to hosted email (often called ‘cloud email’ or Managed Exchange)? Do you want to dramatically reduce your Microsoft Exchange hardware, licensing and staff costs?
Debate about migrating business processes to the cloud rages on. Gartner suggests that the case to move email into the cloud is one of the most compelling and they predict that hosted email will make up 10% of the market this year. By 2015 this figure is likely to reach 30%.
That is a dramatic rise for something so central to business communications as email, so what's driving this move?
Problems of maintaining your own mail server
Businesses rely on enterprise level email systems to operate efficiently and to communicate with their key accounts and stakeholders. It’s a business-critical process.
At the same time, end users really don’t care how email works. They just compose a message, hit send and then –whoosh— it’s out the door. It’s all so simple.
Whilst it might sound simple, the reality of maintaining an in-house mail server is way more complex. Numerous mail server problems can and do arise, meaning that managing your own email infrastructure can become a headache.
For starters, the cost of having a local email system is comparatively expensive. Buying and maintaining a mail server is not cheap. The purchase of user licenses can also quickly add up. Servers are power hungry, meaning higher electricity bills. Infrastructure complexity often means a specialised IT resource or administrator is required to manage it. Factor these components in and costs can seriously escalate.
From an operational point of view, the problems multiply. As email traffic continues to explode and more sophisticated threats emerge each day, you'll need more focus on maintaining and upgrading your mail servers. In business, you can ill-afford downtime and troubleshooting is not always easy.
What is the alternative?
Why businesses like hosted email solutions
Choosing to host your email in the cloud reduces the cost, and removes the headaches of maintaining your own email infrastructure. Because hosted email is fully managed, there’s no maintenance, and no upgrading, and you'll get guaranteed uptime. Administration is a breeze and you need no technical IT experience whatsoever.
Furthermore, hosted email provides not just reduced cost, but also a predictable month by month cost per-user.
But much more than cost savings, hosted email provides access to email, contacts, calendars and other collaboration tools from anywhere in the world, on any online device. All you need is an active internet connection.
Hosted email delivers complete control for today’s forward-thinking and mobile organisations. It’s a must for businesses that want to take complexity out of email...it’s simple, effective and affordable.
Simple, effective, and affordable hosted email solutions
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