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

RapidScale is an industry-leading company in the delivery, design and support of Microsoft Exchange.

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