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Having email and collaboration
that always works is now
essential to doing business
- and downtime is unacceptable.
In-house Exchange servers
- usually in a basement
or closet not designed
for sensitive IT equipment
- can not match the reliability
of hosted Outlook/Exchange.
Hosted Outlook/Exchange
companies like Intermedia.NET
manage servers in large
purpose-built datacenters
with backup power, air
conditioning and Internet
connections. Below
are the main threats to
your email system:
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Hosted
Exchange
from AXAGEN
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One
server - all
email depends
on this. |
Cluster
of servers
- if one stops
working, the
others take
over |
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Data
storage |
One
or two hard
disk drives
- all email
depends on
these |
Large
cluster of
drives which
automatically
share workload
if one fails
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Backup |
Manual
- sometimes
slips due
to time pressures |
Automatic
and frequent |
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Email
security (anti-virus,
anti-spam) |
Updates
not always
made frequently
enough |
Continuous
24x7 updates |
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Data
connection |
Single
data line
to the Internet |
Multiple
connections,
direct to Internet
backbone |
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Physical
environment |
Low-quality
environment,
power, air
conditioning
systems |
Tier-1
datacenter (as
used by Google
and Yahoo!) |
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