[Infographic] In-House vs. Hosted Exchange
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45%report that over the
past 6-12 months email use has
increased
97%of email users
consider it to be very important
in doing their work
86%consider the phone
to be extremely important
46%consider Instant
Messaging to be extremely
important
Currently 160 Million Seats on Hosted Exchange
IT staff can deploy projects instead of maintaining e-mail server
(Typical 100 person company will require 85% of a Sr. IT Technicians time)
In-HouseExchange
HostedExchange
vs.
Quick, easy deployment
Deploy on-premises or in the cloud
Specially-trained support team
Flexible per-user pricing on a monthly basis
No capital investment
Complex implementation with lengthy configuration and set-up process
High upfront and maintenance costs with unpredictable spikes
Life of investment not aligned with technology cycles
Scalable solution
Pay-as-you-grow, capacity easily adjusts to your needs
More difficult to increase capacity as email volume increases
Enterprise-class infrastruc-ture providing high availability
Use and pay only for the infrastructure resources
you need
Internal setup requires a mess of equipment and high costs that many SMEs cannot afford
Utilize expertise provided by Hosted Exchange provider
Free IT staff to focus on business strategy
24/7 support
Technical expertise and administrator needed
Ongoing training and maintenance
Offload the headaches
SLAs that guarantee uptime
Disruptive and unpredictable
Time-consuming
Requires additional resources
Anti-spam, anti-virus protection
Clustered and redundant architecture
Enterprise-grade data centers
Continuous updates required
Unplanned downtime can put you out of business
Subject to in-house network stability and security
Web-based control panel
Easy-to-manage email environment
Add or subtract users easily
Tech expertise required
Longer process
Anywhere, anytime access
Flexibility to use any computing device
Limited access
More difficult to preserve business communications
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