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19Dec
Posted by Exchange Hosting Reviews as LiveOffice, Press Releases
TORRANCE, Calif., December 19, 2006 — LiveOffice Corporation’s AdvisorMail division (www.advisormail.net), the leading provider of managed message archiving and compliance solutions, today announced a new Personal Mailbox Management option enabling employees to access their archived messages on a read-only basis at any time. The new feature increases employee productivity by enabling users to find historical or missing emails without waiting for IT staff searches; mitigates employee privacy concerns related to corporate email retention policies by demonstrating that archived messages cannot be tampered with; and frees IT staff from responding to most email search requests.
In addition, the web-based system offers advanced search and filtering capabilities that speed the process of locating messages that have been moved to the LiveOffice archive. Archive access is based on permissions or specific company retention policies. This strategy ensures that companies using the LiveOffice service meet email retention requirements, optimize the performance of their in-house mail server and reduce on-site storage costs, while providing access to archived messages without interrupting business workflow.
“With the rise in email retention programs that are being implemented to meet the e-discovery requirements of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP), many employees fear that emails that have been moved to archives are out of their control,” said Stephen Uhring, vice president of business development for LiveOffice Corp. “AdvisorMail’s new Personal Mailbox Management feature can not only reduce that anxiety by allowing users to see for themselves that archived emails cannot be altered, but also provide important productivity benefits for the entire organization.”
LiveOffice’s message management and compliance solution aggregates all inbound, outbound, internal messages and attachments from an organization’s email and/or IM systems in an easily searchable database. The system’s e-discovery capabilities help companies comply with SEC, NASD, NYSE, HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, Gramm-Leach-Bliley and FRCP requirements related to the proper handling of email and/or IM (AOL, Yahoo!, MSN, and Bloomberg) communications. LiveOffice’s service is a highly scalable solution that can be deployed in companies with just one email account or implemented enterprise-wide.
LiveOffice’s Personal Mailbox Management is available now as an add-on to LiveOffice’s archiving and e-discovery solution. Pricing begins at $1/email address per month.
12Dec
Posted by Exchange Hosting Reviews as 123Together, Press Releases
Small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) are becoming very reliant on the availability and management of collaboration and messaging systems. However, increasing costs and technological complexity are increasing at a pace that makes it difficult for smaller businesses to manage these services. For many SMBs, the best solution for them is to go with an outsourced solution. Exchange Hosting from 123Together.com will deliver a full e-mail and messaging solution giving SMBs the opportunity to become more efficient and allow them to better focus on their core business.
“No question that it’s a challenge to really get your Exchange solution functioning 100% of the time. We see our role as being the experts in Exchange Hosting and we take on the role of managing, maintaining, and upgrading Exchange. This can be a costly procedure, in both dollars and time, for smaller businesses.” Said Ravi Agarwal, 123Together.com’s CEO. “You will not have to ensure that your IT staff is trained in an ongoing basis or purchase new software or hardware upgrades.” 123Together.com believes that a Hosted Exchange solution is the best one for SMBs.
About 123Together.com
123Together.com is the #1 rated Exchange Hosting company and a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, thanks to outstanding uptime, delightful customer service and a laser-like focus on running robust Microsoft Exchange 2003 servers. For nine years now - since 1997, we’ve been in the hosting business. And for the last five years, we have been helping small businesses leverage the power of Microsoft Exchange Server. Our servers are located in a tier-1 data center. With multiple layers of redundancy and focus on the highest levels of security, our infrastructure is designed to make you productive and secure.
For additional information about 123together.com and their exchange hosting, visit: www.123Together.com
29Nov
Posted by Exchange Hosting Reviews as LiveOffice, Press Releases
TORRANCE, Calif., November 29, 2006 — LiveOffice Corporation’s AdvisorMail division (www.advisormail.net), the leading provider of managed message archiving and compliance solutions, today announced that through December 29th it will offer special package pricing to organizations preparing for the new amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP), which go into effect on December 1st.
The FRCP amendments apply to any organization that has the potential to be involved in litigation in the U.S. Federal Court System. They mandate that companies be prepared for electronic discovery requests by knowing where their electronic message data is stored and ensuring that an effective method in place for retrieving it. LiveOffice’s archiving and discovery solution helps companies meet these new requirements by offering a variety of useful features and functionality, including:
Easy Implementation
Having completed well over 1,000 system implementations to date, LiveOffice’s archiving solution enables organizations to automatically capture, archive and index all emails, email attachments and instant messages (IMs). The system’s intuitive, web-based interface enables administrators to access, search (by keyword, phrase, sender or recipient) and retrieve emails at any time using any internet-connected PC. All messages are stored in a highly redundant environment, equipped with security controls to authenticate email, prevent tampering and monitor access.
Managed Service
LiveOffice’s archiving and discovery solution requires no additional hardware or software at the client site and is compatible with leading SMTP email systems, including MS Exchange and Lotus Notes. The system is available in two configurations, one for companies with an existing in-house mail server and one for companies that prefer to have their emails hosted through LiveOffice. With either configuration, organizations can be up and running with LiveOffice’s archiving and discovery solution in as little as 7 business days.
Data Requests
LiveOffice’s solution offers several flexible options for fulfilling e-discovery requests. System administrators have the ability to perform their own searches based on keywords, phrases, sender or recipient and burn the downloaded data to a non-rewritable DVD on their own PC. For large searches, users simply submit a search and extract request to LiveOffice and receive the extracted data on a non-rewritable DVD within 2 business days of the initial request. LiveOffice also provides companies with the option to upload historic email into the system so that all critical messages can be securely stored and easily searched, regardless of their original sent or received date.
Advanced Options
LiveOffice offers a variety of advanced options that can be added to its archiving and discovery solution including anti-spam & virus protection as well as encryption via Secure Computing’s Iron Mail appliance. In addition, LiveOffice’s Mail Recovery ‘ feature provides organizations with uninterrupted access to their email in the event of a natural or unplanned disaster. This comprehensive email continuity service reduces the risk and expense of lost email data, ensuring that organizations have continuous access to their email messages and are able to conduct business as usual while access to their in-house mail server is being restored.
Pricing for LiveOffice’s archiving and discovery solution starts at as little as $100 per month and includes unlimited storage capacity. This special pricing is available from now until December 29, 2006.
LiveOffice’s message management and compliance solution aggregates all inbound, outbound, internal messages and attachments from an organization’s email and/or IM systems in an easily searchable database. The system’s e-discovery capabilities help companies comply with SEC, NASD, NYSE, HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, Gramm-Leach-Bliley and FRCP requirements related to the proper handling of email and/or IM (AOL, Yahoo!, MSN, and Bloomberg) communications. It is a highly scalable solution that can be deployed in companies with 1 email account or implemented enterprise-wide.
27Nov
Posted by Exchange Hosting Reviews as AppRiver, Press Releases
GULF BREEZE, Fla., Nov. 27, 2006 – AppRiver LLC, a leading supplier of business email security solutions, today announced an agreement to supply its SecureTide™ spam and virus detection technology to Rackspace Managed Hosting™, a recognized leader in the global managed hosting market.
Under the agreement, Rackspace will deploy the powerful solution that uses more than 60 types of filtering techniques to rid incoming email of worms, viruses, phishing attempts and other protocol-based vulnerabilities to add a critical security layer to its Managed Microsoft Exchange, the latest addition to Rackspace’s comprehensive email solution portfolio.
SecureTide also provides perimeter security to protect from a myriad of attacks, including Denial of Service (DOS) and Directory Harvesting, and reduces bandwidth consumption and mailbox clutter, ensuing improved efficiency and system performance for Rackspace customers.
“We are excited to be deployed as a critical element of Rackspace’s newest service,” said Scott Cutler, AppRiver’s executive vice president. “Rackspace is a worldwide leader in meeting the most critical needs of businesses for IT infrastructure and application availability. To be chosen as part of their Exchange Hosting is a strong endorsement of our email security technology.”
Offering companies of all sizes an on-demand and highly available implementation of Microsoft’s popular email and collaboration solution, Managed Microsoft Exchange from Rackspace includes advanced email with shared calendars, contact lists, public folders and task management features to enhance individual and team productivity. The fully-managed service approach transforms Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 into a simple and scalable service in which customers only pay for the mailboxes they plan to use.
“Our relationship with AppRiver enables us to deliver spam and antivirus protection as an all-inclusive feature to every customer utilizing Managed Microsoft Exchange from Rackspace,” said Emil Sayegh, director, Product Marketing, Rackspace Managed Hosting. “AppRiver’s SecureTide is a key part of our comprehensive security strategy to better protect our Managed Exchange customers. The company not only offers some of the best email spam and antivirus protection available, but they share in our customer service philosophy which has made our Fanatical Support™ renowned throughout our industry.”
After completing a successful beta test of Managed Microsoft Exchange from Rackspace with positive customer feedback, the company is now hosting thousands of mailboxes for hundreds of customers around the world who entrust the company to manage their mission-critical email functions.
About Rackspace Managed Hosting
A recognized leader in the global managed hosting market, Rackspace Managed Hosting is a world-class service organization delivering enterprise-level Web infrastructure and managed services to businesses of all sizes. Serving more than 10,000 customers across seven data centers worldwide, Rackspace integrates the industry’s best technologies for each customer need and delivers it as a service via the company’s award-winning Fanatical Support™. Through trusted relationships with its customers, Rackspace serves as an extension of their IT department, enabling customers to focus on their core business. Founded in 1998, Rackspace has grown more than 50 percent a year since the company’s inception. For more information, please visit www.rackspace.com, or call 800-961-2888.
About AppRiver
AppRiver is a privately held provider of business email solutions, with more than 8,000 customers using its managed services and over 25,500 businesses worldwide using its security solutions. Founded in 2002, the Gulf Breeze, Florida-based company maintains multiple Tier 1 data centers at secure locations in the United States and Europe. Additional information about AppRiver is available at www.appriver.com.
22Nov
Posted by Exchange Hosting Reviews as Press Releases, Simply Mail Solutions
Wider range of SME?s and individual users can now get email from their mobiles as SMS becomes Roadsync reseller
Warrington Monday 22nd November 2006. Simply Mail Solutions, the Email Hosting specialists, have greatly extended the range of mobile phones supported with their hosting services. Previously only supporting Windows Mobile 5 devices they have greatly extended the range by making syncing software and support available to users.
Commented Colin Smith, Managing Director of SMS: ?The use of mobile email is moving from the large corporate user to the smaller corporates, SMEs and individual users. We have extended our support for mobiles to a wide range of mobile email capable devices such as Nokia N and E series, Sony Ericsson M and P series, Motorola RAZR, A and V and Palm OS. Market research indicates (e.g. Gartner*) indicates that the market for mobile email is set for very dramatic growth over the next few years and we are building SMS as a well respected brand to support this growth.?
Mobile email requires two mobile capable components ? the email server and of course the mobile itself. SMS supports the two leading server platforms: Microsoft Exchange and Zimbra Collaboration Suite. The mobile phone requires ?syncing? software in order to take properly take advantage of email. This means that when the server and the mobile phone communicate they make sure that the information on the mobile is up to date and ?synced with the server. ?Push? email is the capability to deliver email to the mobile as soon as it is received at the server and is normally included with the software on the mobile enabled phone.
Email software is included with a number of mobiles but for the others Roadsync software supported by SMS is available for download by customers from the SMS website.
About Simply Mail Solutions
The company is based in Warrington UK and has a rapidly growing user base. SMS complements its email hosting services with web hosting and broadband access. More information is available from Colin Smith [email protected]
T 0 1925 818 448
W www.simplymailsolutions.com/wireless_messaging_services.asp
Simply Mail Solutions
Padgate Business Park
Green Lane
Warrington WA1 4JN
UK
05Nov
Posted by Exchange Hosting Reviews as ASP-One, Press Releases
Herndon, Va., November 5, 2006
ASP-One, a division of Apptix and a premiere provider of Microsoft Exchange Hosting services for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), today announced the availability of a highly-anticipated 1 GB Exchange Hosting Plan.
This high-capacity Exchange Hosting plan, available to all new ASP-One customers, provides expansive storage for SMB organizations. ASP-One’s “x1GB Plan” provides customers who sign up 10 subscribers with 10 GB of disk space for just $125 per month. This storage space is aggregated at the organization level to enable the most efficient utilization of storage company-wide. A customer administrator can also divide the storage up among its employees as desired. This plan is highly scalable and provides the ability to add subscribers at any time.
“The daily onslaught of email traffic faces each and every one of us in the business world,” said Alex Yevelev, vice president of web direct sales for ASP-One. “The decision to expand our offerings to include a high storage capacity plan specifically addresses this reality. This plan also provides an additional option for those considering our Dedicated Exchange Server hosting solution, but not yet quite ready to expand to 68GB+ storage usage.”
ASP-One’s Exchange Hosting service offers a full-featured, Outlook-based solution, including:
ASP-One offers three comprehensive plans to meet an organization’s specific needs, starting at only $9.95 per subscriber per month. Plans include a 200 MB plan, which is recommended for organizations with more than three subscribers and average storage requirements, a 500 MB plan which is recommended for organizations with above-average storage requirements and now a 1 GB plan (for 10 users), which is perfect for organizations with high storage requirements. To accommodate those customers with 20 or more subscribers and a need for even more extensive storage, ASP-One’s Dedicated Exchange Server Hosting solution delivers between 68 and 420 GB of usable disk space.
Currently, all new ASP-One subscribers can also acquire a free Hosted SharePoint account with the purchase of either a Shared or Dedicated Exchange Hosting plan. Additional information on this special offer can be found at www.ASP-One.com.
31Oct
Posted by Exchange Hosting Reviews as LiveOffice, Press Releases
TORRANCE, Calif., October 31, 2006 — LiveOffice Corporation’s AdvisorMail division (www.advisormail.net), the leading provider of hosted message archiving and compliance solutions, today announced that it has added another Fortune 100 company to its growing list of premier clients. The AdvisorMail install base now consists of more than 1,000 organizations, including several Fortune 100 companies, 65% of the nation’s leading independent broker-dealers, and hundreds of registered investment advisory firms.
“Our results this quarter reflect the continued adoption of email and instant message monitoring and compliance by businesses of all sizes and confirm the effectiveness of our AdvisorMail solution in meeting the needs of a variety of customers,” said Steve Uhring, vice president of sales and marketing for LiveOffice Corp. “In head-to-head comparisons with its competitors, AdvisorMail’s impressive reliability, scalability, ease of use and pricing have helped it to emerge as the clear solution of choice for 1,000 companies over the last 5 years.”
AdvisorMail aggregates all inbound, outbound, internal messages and attachments from an organization’s email and/or IM systems in an easily searchable database and provides e-discovery services that enable compliance with SEC, NASD, NYSE, HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley and Gramm-Leach-Bliley requirements related to the proper handling of email and IM (AOL, Yahoo!, MSN, and Bloomberg) communications. It is a highly scalable solution that can be deployed in companies with 1 email account or implemented enterprise-wide.
The newest AdvisorMail features include upgraded spam and virus protection, encryption, business continuity and disaster recovery for in-house mail servers, and mailbox management options. These enhancements provide AdvisorMail users with a broader range of tools to help them more effectively manage system outages and mail traffic issues.
Upcoming Events
LiveOffice will demonstrate its AdvisorMail email & IM archiving solution at the following fall conferences:
26Oct
Posted by Exchange Hosting Reviews as LightEdge Solutions, Press Releases
DES MOINES, Iowa—October 26, 2006— In the 24th annual Celebrate Business awards held at the Des Moines Downtown Marriott Hotel, the Edge Business Continuity Center (EdgeBCC) was recognized today by the Greater Des Moines Partnership, RSM McGladrey and the Des Moines Business Record with an award for Economic Impact. This award commemorates the EdgeBCC and its joint owners LightEdge Solutions and LBC Technology for their significant impact on the community through expansion of operations, facilities and workforce.
“We view the construction and operation of this facility to be of great value to Des Moines”, stated Mary Bontrager, Executive Vice President of the Greater Des Moines Partnership, “We feel that the addition of business continuity services will ultimately make Des Moines businesses more resilient to natural disasters and other factors that could impair their ability to do business.”
The EdgeBCC, a newly completed business continuity center serving Des Monies area businesses, was given an award for Economic Impact due to the scope of its capital investment, the realization of a new facility to serve businesses of the metro and the addition of professional labor positions for the community. The EdgeBCC is a state-of-the-art facility used to provide unique risk mitigation and disaster recovery services for small and medium sized businesses in central Iowa.
“The Celebrate Business award for Economic Impact, provides additional validation to what we’ve known all along”, said Travis Thompson, VP of Operations for the EdgeBCC, “By providing risk mitigation and outsourced technical services, the EdgeBCC can have a significant impact on the small and medium sized businesses located in the Midwest and national companies located in disaster-prone areas.
The Celebrate Business awards recognize companies for specific business practices such as encouraging involvement in community activities, creating an employee-friendly work environment, and building a substantial reputation for integrity and quality while remaining outside the public limelight. Small- and large-business winners are selected annually in each category.
This year’s winners were:
Economic Impact Award: EdgeBCC Citigroup Soy Innovations Westec InterActive Wells Fargo Community Champion: Workplace Environment: |
Best Kept Secret: Large business – Caleris, Inc. Small business – C & L Companies Commuter Award: Best Workplace for Young Professionals: |
About Edge Business Continuity Center
Edge Business Continuity Center (EdgeBCC) is a state-of-the-art facility located in Altoona, IA offering over 10,000 square feet of secure, environmentally controlled data center space and over 300 disaster recovery workstations provisioned with desktops and VoIP phone handsets. The facility has been built around a highly redundant private network infrastructure, allowing for some of the highest service level agreements in the industry. EdgeBCC is a joint venture between LightEdge Solutions and LBC Technology. For more information, visit the EdgeBCC Web site atwww.edgebcc.com.
About LightEdge Solutions
LightEdge Solutions® empowers businesses to be more productive, mobile and effective with managed voice and data services delivered through a multi-homed, Cisco Powered Network data center environment. By out-tasking voice, data and IT services, small and medium sized businesses are able to realize unparalleled scalability and reliability with a lower total cost of ownership and reduced administration. For more information about services available for your business, visit LightEdge’s web site at www.lightedge.com.
LightEdge Solutions® and the LightEdge Solutions logo, and Scale-on-Demand™ are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of LightEdge Solutions, Inc. EdgeBCC™ and the EdgeBCC logo are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of the Edge Business Continuity Center. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
26Oct
Posted by Exchange Hosting Reviews as LiveOffice, Press Releases
TORRANCE, Calif., October 26, 2006 LiveOffice’s Conferencing Division announced today that it will provide free web conferencing and conference calling services to all businesses and stranded business travelers affected by the Colorado blizzard.
All of LiveOffice’s services are on-demand and reservationless, which means that once an account is established, anyone can instantly begin a conference call or web conference from anywhere at any time. If you are in need of free access to LiveOffice’s range of conferencing solutions, please call 800.374.2032 to set up an account.
For specific information on LiveOffice’s Free Conferencing, please visithttp://freeconferencing.liveoffice.com/.
For specific information on LiveOffice’s Web Conferencing, please visithttp://webconference.liveoffice.com/.
For specific information on LiveOffice’s Toll-Free Teleconferencing, please visithttp://teleconference.liveoffice.com/.
18Oct
Posted by Exchange Hosting Reviews as Press Releases, Simply Mail Solutions
Now every UK organisation can compete with the big boys
October 18 2006, Warrington UK. In a paper just published on the Simply Mail Solutions? Website, Bill Unsworth discusses the new mail services that are now available to SMEs and their advantages over the current POP3/SMTP systems.
http://www.simplymailsolutions.com/news_and_analysis.asp
The paper discusses the new mail systems such as Microsoft Exchange and Zimbra and how they work. ?It also outlines the benefits of using these systems to promote collaborative and remote working within smaller organisations.
It also points out that not only can these systems synchronize mail, contacts and calendars between devices such as your desktop PC, notebook and mobile phone but they also provide an invaluable continuous back up function in the event of hardware failure or loss.
17Oct
Posted by Exchange Hosting Reviews as LiveOffice, Press Releases
TORRANCE, Calif., October 17, 2006 LiveOffice Corp.’s (www.liveoffice.com) AdvisorSquare division, the nation’s #1 provider of financial advisor websites, today became the only website provider in the financial services industry to provide independent broker-dealers with advanced custom publishing options. As the newest addition to AdvisorSquare’s existing Web Connect Program, the Click-to-Publish Toolkit creates an additional marketing channel for broker-dealers, while helping to increase compliance control over content displayed on their registered representatives’ websites.
With AdvisorSquare’s Click-to-Publish Toolkit, broker-dealers can create website content at the corporate level and then with a single click of the mouse, publish it simultaneously to their field representatives’ websites. In addition, any time the corporate office makes an edit to content that is already live; it will make the edit across all websites carrying that particular message. Essentially, AdvisorSquare’s Click-to-Publish Toolkit ensures that consistent program marketing messages appear on the corporate site as well as on registered representatives’ websites. It also helps to keep content up-to-date and in-compliance with regulatory requirements. The Toolkit’s convenient one-click editing and content posting options streamline the entire program marketing effort, while easing the compliance burden on busy supervisory departments.
“The Custom Publishing Toolkit provides broker-dealers with unparalleled marketing reach online. It used to be that broker-dealers hoped their representatives would promote special offers and programs on their websites,” said Michele McGarry, AdvisorSquare’s business development director. “Now the corporate office knows exactly what is being promoted on each representatives website and they even have the ability to edit the content in real-time and publish the updates simultaneously on all representative websites.”
Since 1998, AdvisorSquare’s Web Connect program has helped hundreds of broker-dealers create website programs for their representatives. Now with 74% of the nation’s leading broker-dealers as partners, AdvisorSquare is the nation’s #1 provider of financial advisor websites. In outsourcing their website program to LiveOffice, corporate offices are able to focus internal activities on their core competencies and revenue-generating activities. In turn, LiveOffice leverages its core competencies in website development, marketing and management to provide broker-dealers with a turnkey website program that simultaneously meets the creative needs of representatives and the critical compliance department requirements of the Corporate office.
Pricing & Availability
These services are available now to all existing and new Web Connect partners and their representatives. For registered investment advisors, AdvisorSquare offers a variety of website packages and options to meet their specific needs, including special pricing to financial advisor clients of Fidelity Investments, Schwab and TD Ameritrade.
Learn More About AdvisorSquare & Web Connect
LiveOffice’s AdvisorSquare division will provide demonstrations of its turnkey website offering at the following financial conferences: