Exchange Hosting Reviews

New ColdFusion 8 plans provide advanced functionality and significant improvements

New York, NY (April 2, 2008) - Intermedia, the worldwide leader in Web hosting and business email services for small and medium enterprises, today announced the availability of Web hosting plans that leverage the new technology of Adobe® ColdFusion 8. The new version of ColdFusion enables developers to integrate their Web sites with .Net applications and provides them with real time monitoring and reporting of production systems.

Intermedia’s turnkey ColdFusion 8 plans provide a highly robust and flexible environment, with a 99.999% uptime SLA and 24×7 management and support. Pricing for the ColdFusion 8 plans starts at $39.95 per month.

“We are very excited to offer ColdFusion 8,” said Intermedia Web hosting product manager, Anna Silchenko. “The new version allows us to provide our large community of developer customers with even more flexibility, performance and functionality than ever before, as well as greater integration with our Hosted Microsoft Exchange Email plans.”

The launch of ColdFusion 8 brings dramatically improved performance and scalability, as well as easier integration with secure hosting environments, making it a must-have for ColdFusion developers. Improvements include:

Performance increases. ColdFusion 8 software delivers significant performance improvements over all earlier releases of the product.
Enhanced encryption and security. ColdFusion 8 includes RSA BSAFE Crypto-J libraries, which provide FIPs 140-certified strong encryption.
.NET integration. With ColdFusion 8, you can specify any .NET object — either local or remote — and use it in your ColdFusion application.
PDF capabilities. ColdFusion 8 applications can dynamically generate and interact with PDF documents and forms for a printable, portable way to intelligently capture and share information.
Improved advanced features. ZIP and JAR file features, Ajax features, per-application settings, mutli-threading, and Atom and RSS feeds.
Intermedia offers a wide variety of hosted Microsoft Exchange and business Web hosting plans. Developers looking for a highly robust and flexible Web hosting environment should look to Intermedia for the most advanced tools and functionality. For further details on our ColdFusion 8 plans, please visit http://www.intermedia.net/ColdFusion.

56% of email users falsely believe that email is ‘secure’, research shows

New York, NY (February 12, 2008) - Intermedia, the worldwide leader in business email services, today introduced Secure Mail, the first Microsoft Exchange software as a service (SaaS) that both encrypts email and fully complies with archiving regulations established by a cross-section of industries. This offering represents a real, implementable solution that resolves poor email practices just confirmed by startling new research. A new survey by Intermedia of 500 business email users revealed:

76% send credit card information or social security numbers via email
87% send contracts and legal documents
56% of users believe – incorrectly – that ‘email is secure’
Intermedia’s new service means that, for the first time, small and medium businesses (SMBs) will be able to deploy Microsoft Exchange as a fully-managed service with full encryption and archiving, for just a few dollars per month in fees – instead of $100,000 or more in upfront costs, including solution deployment, integration and management. Email is encrypted directly in Outlook and can only be opened by recipients when a correct password is entered. It then gets archived for compliance purposes.

“With our new Secure Mail offering, SMBs can now afford to comply with email best practices such as encryption and archiving,” said Rurik Bradbury, VP of Strategy for Intermedia. “This is especially important in fields such as finance or healthcare, but even beyond regulated industries, companies should reduce legal risk by protecting and retaining important email. Intermedia has finally made this cost-effective.”

Many businesses must comply with regulations that enforce rules dictating email privacy and information archiving. For example, the SEC specifies that electronic storage media preserve records exclusively in a non-rewriteable and non-erasable format. Sarbanes-Oxley requires saving sensitive material for auditing purposes, while HIPAA mandates strict confidentiality around patient information. Further, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) were changed in 2006 to recognize and account for electronically stored information such as emails and instant messages.

The Secure Mail service will cost $7.95 per mailbox as a monthly fee, with a setup fee of $7.95 each. This is a fraction of the cost of traditional public key infrastructure (PKI) encryption systems, which also take a great deal of effort to deploy. A major benefit of the system is that recipients of the encrypted mail do not have to have the Intermedia software installed, but can pick up their messages via a secure Web connection.

Despite ever-increasing legal risks, many companies continue to send email without encryption – even including sensitive data – and then fail to retain it with an email archiving policy. This, despite the fact that many lawsuits have been awarded following sensitive data leaks or a failure to produce email demanded by lawyers – with millions of dollars in damages.

The Intermedia survey showed general misunderstanding among business users of the fact that email is insecure and sent across the public Internet. A high percentage of respondents admitted to sending important data by email, including strategic company documents (88%), contracts and legal documents (87%) and company financial information (86%). On a more personal level, seventy-six percent of people send social security and credit card numbers via email, even though 44% are aware that it is not secure.

More information is available at www.intermedia.net/securemail

Leading Business Communications Product Now Available as a Hosted Service

New York, NY (January 29, 2008) - Intermedia, the global leader in business email services, today launched the world’s first ‘hosted’ Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007, the instant messaging and unified communications server. By offering OCS software-as-a-service (SaaS), Intermedia is helping make streamlined workplace communications affordable for small and medium businesses, an important step following the software’s launch in October 2007 by Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates.

The Intermedia hosted OCS solution offers many powerful features:

Private, secure instant messaging, allowing companies to avoid the privacy and legal risks of staff using public instant messaging (IM) systems
Presence integration across Communicator, Outlook and SharePoint, so free/busy status is always visible to colleagues and integrated with calendars
Messages are saved, so IM conversations are searchable and stored for legal compliance
PC-to-PC voice and video conferencing, as well as secure file transfers
“OCS 2007 is a major new product in business communication, and we are proud to offer the world’s first software-as-a-service version,” said Rurik Bradbury, vice president of strategy for Intermedia. “Small and medium businesses can now enjoy powerful instant messaging and unified communications, integrated with Exchange 2007, for just a few dollars a month for each employee.”

Office Communications Server 2007 hosting is available to all users of the Intermedia hosted Exchange 2007 service, and will cost each user $7.95 per month, with a one-time setup fee of $7.95 per user. Also included is a free download of Microsoft Office Communicator, a sophisticated instant messaging program, for each user of the service. For more information, please visit www.intermedia.net/ocs.

Leader in business email services extends offering to Apple’s iPod touch

New York, NY (January 16, 2008) - Intermedia, the global leader in business email solutions, now supports business email on Apple’s iPod touch. With the MacWorld announcement of email support for the popular device, Intermedia hosted Exchange customers can now access their business email via secure IMAP using any up-to-date iPod touch.

The ability to access business email on the iPod through Intermedia’s hosted Microsoft Exchange 2007 plans, including PDF, Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel attachment capability, make the iPod touch an unexpected, but welcome, business tool for consumers.

“We are excited to be the first company to offer business email that will work on the iPod touch,” said Serguei Sofinski, Intermedia CEO. “The line between business and consumer devices is increasingly being blurred and we are sure that many of Intermedia’s 250,000 customers will benefit from the new offering.”

Email through the iPod touch will be supported through secure IMAP, which comes standard with all Intermedia hosted Exchange 2007 plans. Those interested in accessing their business email on the iPod touch, should visit Intermedia’s web site at http://www.intermedia.net/ipod.

Intermedia is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner, and companies looking for business email services know that Intermedia will provide unparalleled uptime, the absolute best in 24×7 support, as well as technical knowledge of the highest level.

More than 250,000 users now benefit from cost savings, reliability and better support for Microsoft Exchange email

New York, NY (November 28, 2007) - Intermedia, the worldwide leader in business email services, today announced the expansion of its customer base to more than 25,000 small- and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) in the U.S. The company has more than doubled its Microsoft Exchange hosting business during 2007.

By outsourcing Microsoft Exchange, customers stand to save thousands of dollars in license fees, setup costs and maintenance by outsourcing their Microsoft Exchange platform to Intermedia. The company is now servicing almost 250,000 individual users by providing enterprise-strength Microsoft email, calendar and address book, as well as wireless email access. Intermedia offers uptime guarantees up to 99.999%, with 24×7 customer support from its Microsoft Gold Certified staff.

“Deciding to outsource our email to Intermedia was a financial no-brainer,” said David Cohen, operations manager for Pink Elephant,a group of night clubs with locations in New York City, Chicago, Southampton, St. Barth’s and other cities around the world. “Our club owners, managers and other employees can share the same information and access their email, calendars and contacts from various places around the world instantaneously and all we have to do is pay Intermedia a monthly fee to manage everything for us.”

“Hosted business email is increasingly popular thanks to the rising cost of license fees and the management complexity of Microsoft Exchange,” said Rurik Bradbury, VP of Strategy for Intermedia. “Our service, which is delivered over the Internet for a low monthly fee, is a simple solution, especially for small and mid-sized businesses that have a stretched IT staff or no staff at all.”

New York, NY (November 5, 2007) - Intermedia, a global leader in business email services, has joined the BlackBerry® System Integrator (SI) Alliance Program and is offering hosted BlackBerry® services to small and medium businesses.

“We are pleased to become a member of the BlackBerry SI Alliance Program,” said Serguei Sofinski, CEO of Intermedia. “Hosted BlackBerry services are in tremendous demand among our customers and the trend towards wireless email and wireless collaboration applications is growing strongly. We look forward to working closely with RIM to promote the BlackBerry solution and to help our customers achieve the many benefits of wireless connectivity.”

Utilizing Hosted BlackBerry® Enterprise Server from Research In Motion (RIM), Intermedia can offer customers in small and medium sized businesses the same enterprise-level security, reliability, features and functionality of the BlackBerry® Enterprise Solution without customers having to worry about managing the solution themselves.

Intermedia provides business email software as a service (SaaS) to over 20,000 companies worldwide, with a focus on 24×7 support and guaranteed uptime. Under the BlackBerry SI Alliance program, Intermedia gains business and marketing resources, support services and accreditation from RIM for providing hosted BlackBerry services.

The BlackBerry and RIM families of related marks, images and symbols are the exclusive properties and trademarks of Research In Motion Limited.

September 26, 2007 - Leading Microsoft Exchange Server resource site, MSExchange.org, announced today that Intermedia Exchange Hosting was selected the winner in the Exchange Hosting category of the MSExchange.org Readers’ Choice Awards.

“Our Reader’s Choice Awards give visitors to our site the opportunity to vote for the products they view as the very best in their respective category,” said Sean Buttigieg, MSExchange.org manager. “MSExchange.org users are specialists in their field who encounter various solutions for Exchange Server at the workplace. Their vote serves as a solid peer-to-peer recommendation of the winning product.”

MSExchange.org conducts regular polls to discover which product is preferred by Exchange administrators in a particular category of third party solutions for Microsoft Exchange Server. The awards draw a huge response per category and are based entirely on the visitors’ votes. MSExchange.org users can submit their votes for the current Readers’ Award poll in the site’s left-hand bar.

About MSExchange.org

MSExchange.org (http://www.msexchange.org) is a Microsoft Exchange Server 2007/2003/2000 resource site. It is the leading Exchange site, attracting over 300,000 Exchange administrators and specialists a month. The site provides the latest Microsoft Exchange Server news, articles and tutorials by leading Exchange experts, message boards, software listings and product reviews.

MSExchange.org forms part of a group of sites run by TechGenix Ltd., including http://www.windowsnetworking.com - a comprehensive Windows Networking resource site; http://www.isaserver.org, a Microsoft ISA Server resource site; http://www.windowsecurity.com, a Windows security resource site and http://www.msterminalservices.org, a Server Based Computing resource site.

VPS Windows 2003 gives dedicated hosting benefits for a lower price

NEW YORK (September 18, 2006) - Intermedia.NET, the US leader in Exchange and Web hosting for small and medium businesses, today announced its Windows 2003 Virtual Private Server (VPS) offering. Relatively unusual for Windows Web hosting, the Intermedia.NET Value Managed VPS hosting is a fully-managed virtual server powerful enough for demanding users.

Lisa Coleman
Marketing Manager
(646) 519 8206
lcoleman@intermedia.net

For developers, it offers a highly-customizable environment without the higher cost of buying a physical dedicated server, as well as a 99.9% uptime SLA and 24×7 management and support from Microsoft Gold Certified staff. Pricing for the fully-managed service starts at $150 per month.

Each virtual private server is highly configurable and can be built to Web hosting customers’ exact specifications. Intermedia.NET’s VPS hosting servers reside in the company’s tier-1 datacenter and run on the latest dual-processor, dual-core Intel Xeon processors, with 8 GB RAM and SCSI RAID storage, for maximum uptime and performance.

“We are pleased to offer our customers an affordable option for dedicated Web hosting through our new VPS hosting environment,” said Serguei Sofinski, CEO of Intermedia.NET. “Through Intermedia.NET, companies can now get a server that is completely customized to their needs, without the high costs associated with managed dedicated server offerings.”

Intermedia.NET offers a wide variety of hosted Microsoft Exchange and business Web hosting plans, from the smallest businesses to substantial mid-sized organizations. For further details on our Value Managed VPS hosting plan, please visit http://www.intermedia.net/vps-value-plan.asp.

The survey also found that despite unhelpful stereotyping such as Apple’s ‘Mac and PC’ commercials, IT and business people are equally likely – at 5% each – to wear dated 1990s spectacles.
Confirming one stereotype, however, was the finding that IT workers were almost twice as likely to carry a Maglite and a Leatherman. Both businesspeople and IT people prefer a Leatherman over a MagLite, and are 20% more likely to carry one.

“Our research provides an interesting insight into the life of IT people,” said Rurik Bradbury, VP marketing for Intermedia.NET. “Our large Microsoft Gold Certified team of engineers was comforted that IT people are twice as likely to wear Megadeth and similar t-shirts, and that black jeans and ponytails are still hot items. However, they were distraught to find that the cellphone belt clip has gone ‘mainstream’ and lost its identification with the IT subculture.”

One interesting finding from the study was that IT staff are more likely to wear an expensive suit than a cheap one. While business staff are still far more likely to wear any suit at all, IT people shun cheap suits, with 33% more of them choosing a pricey suit over a bargain one. Fake expensive watches are currently not popular among techies, with only 2% of IT people admitting to wearing one.

“Intermedia.NET believes the findings in this study to be very valuable,” added Bradbury. “Both business managers and IT professionals are quickly adopting hosted Microsoft Exchange, and this research helps us to better understand the mindset of our customers.”

Intermedia.NET offers hosted Microsoft Exchange to small and medium businesses, with affordable plans starting at $9.95 per month for each user.

About Intermedia.NET
Intermedia.NET is the US leader in Exchange hosting and Web hosting for small and medium businesses. A Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, we are committed to best-in-class 24×7 service. With three locations around the world, Intermedia.NET offers its growing customer base an outstanding technical team, guaranteed service levels, and ease of management through its unmatched HostPilot® Control Panel. Founded in 1995 and hosting Microsoft Exchange since 2000, our extremely reliable service and support have earned Intermedia.NET a reputation as one of the premiere providers of Exchange and Web hosting solutions. For more information, visit www.intermedia.net.

Upgrade lets users sync acclaimed new Nokia E61 smartphone with Microsoft Exchange and use up to 10 devices

NEW YORK (September 6, 2006) - Intermedia.NET, the US leader in Exchange hosting, is the first hosted Exchange provider offering Good Mobile Messaging 4.9, allowing users to sync email with the Nokia E61 and other top smartphones. The upgrade is available to both new and existing customers and brings a host of benefits.

Lisa Coleman
Marketing Manager
(646) 519 8206
lcoleman@intermedia.net

Good Mobile Messaging (formerly GoodLink) gives users constantly-synced email, calendars and contacts on the device of their choice, including the Palm Treo, Motorola Q and the Nokia ‘E’ series. As the first hosted Exchange provider to offer Version 4.9, Intermedia.NET gives users the latest in secure, wireless email, at a price that is affordable to smaller businesses.

“Intermedia.NET is proud to be the first hosted Exchange provider rolling out Good Mobile Messaging 4.9,” said Serguei Sofinski, CEO of Intermedia.NET. “This is another example of how we give customers enterprise-class Microsoft Exchange email, at a price that is affordable.”

Customers of Intermedia.NET can add wireless email from Good instantly, and without technical expertise. Using Intermedia.NET’s proprietary HostPilot online control panel, it takes just seconds to add Good Mobile Messaging service in HostPilot, download the software to the handheld – such as a Treo or Nokia E61 – and set up always-synced email, calendar and contacts.

Added Sofinski, “Good offers a wonderful service – truly turnkey mobile email that keeps your entire desktop with you on the go. Our customers reap huge productivity gains through anytime-anywhere access, without having to pay up front for servers, licenses and maintenance time.”

Intermedia.NET offers a wide variety of Exchange hosting and Web hosting plans, from the smallest businesses with three users and upwards, to substantial mid-sized organizations. Intermedia.NET hosted Exchange plans start at $9.95 per month for each user. For further details on Intermedia.NET hosted Exchange, see http://www.intermedia.net/it-professionals/hosted-exchange/hosted-exchange.asp. To read more about our Good Mobile Messaging offering, please visit http://www.intermedia.net/it-professionals/hosted-exchange/optional-features/wireless-messaging/goodlink.asp.

About Intermedia.NET
Intermedia.NET is the US leader in Exchange hosting and Web hosting for small and medium businesses. A Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, we are committed to best-in-class 24×7 service. With three locations around the world, Intermedia.NET offers its growing customer base an outstanding technical team, guaranteed service levels, and ease of management through its unmatched HostPilot® Control Panel. Founded in 1995 and hosting Microsoft Exchange since 2000, our extremely reliable service and support have earned Intermedia.NET a reputation as one of the premiere providers of Exchange and Web hosting solutions. For more information, visit www.intermedia.net.