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29Jun
LiveOffice Offers Free Web & Video Conferencing Services To Stranded Workers In Northeast
Posted by Exchange Hosting Reviews as LiveOffice, Press Releases
TORRANCE, Calif., June 29, 2006 LiveOffice’s (www.liveoffice.com) Conferencing Division announced today that it will provide free web conferencing and teleconferencing services to all residents and aid workers effected by the floods in the Northeastern part of the United States.
If you are in need of free access to LiveOffice’s range of conferencing services, please call 800.374.2032 to set up an account.
27Jun
LightEdge Managed Backup Solution Manages Data Risk for Omaha-based MarketSphere Consulting
Posted by Exchange Hosting Reviews as LightEdge Solutions, Press Releases
DES MOINES, Iowa —June 27, 2006—LightEdge Solutions, Inc., a leader in converged data networking, voice-over-Internet-protocol (VoIP) and managed IT business services, today announced the commercial availability of its managed backup solution, providing businesses a structured risk management platform and maximum availability for mission-critical data.
LightEdge’s managed backup solution provides businesses with a cost-effective way to back up mission-critical data without the capital expense and administration required to build out an in-house network and storage server environment. Instead, any business can have its data backed up and stored remotely in LightEdge’s secure, redundant, carrier-class data center. Offsite storage provides an added level of security in case of a natural disaster or business interruption resulting in damage to an organization’s physical plant or property.
“We rely on LightEdge Solutions to provide managed backup services for the critical data stored in a health insurance database used by one of our clients,” said Lonnie Janecek, managing director of MarketSphere Consulting. “Due to the sensitive nature of the data, the security and availability requirements are extremely high. LightEdge provided what we needed, and more, with a backup service that meets the compliance requirements for HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act). In addition to swift recovery time, the on-demand scalability ultimately allows us the flexibility to add additional clients.”
“We’re pleased that MarketSphere is able take advantage of our managed backup solution to create an immediate impact for their healthcare client,” said Jim Masterson, chairman and chief executive officer of LightEdge Solutions. “One of the reasons we built our network to industry-leading standards for security, reliability and availability is to make it easy for small and midsize businesses to quickly and cost-effectively implement the latest next generation technology solutions. Our managed backup solution is a proven model that can be deployed within a fraction of the time and cost of typical in-house solutions.”
Why Outsource Backup?
Small and medium businesses considering backup solutions face a tradeoff between cost and quality: the cost to secure and administer their own network and storage servers versus the quality, reliability and performance of the storage solution they choose to put in place. Traditionally, these businesses have had to deal with the following challenges:
- Tape backup systems that can be problematic in terms of high failure rates resulting in loss of critical data, the complexity of tape splits and partial backups, the time-intensive task of finding and restoring data and limited nightly backup and restore options. Moreover, these systems often require costly administrative resources to maintain;
- Difficulty in accurately estimating current and future data storage needs in order to deploy in-house systems necessary to accommodate business growth;
- Finding the right backup and storage solution to meet the changing demands of regulatory compliance placed on businesses.
In response to these customer challenges, LightEdge has developed an offsite backup solution that is available at several service levels and is flexible enough to meet the varying demands of virtually any size business.
LightEdge Managed Backup Options
With LightEdge managed backup, businesses choose among three service levels that are all remotely hosted in LightEdge’s secure, redundant data center.
- Hosted Disk-based Storage: A data backup solution stored directly to disk format which provides faster, more efficient and flexible recovery options than tape.
- Mirrored Storage: For a higher level of protection, data can be “mirrored” to a secondary LightEdge data center, ensuring data integrity in the event of a catastrophic failure or downtime in the primary facility.
- Archived Storage: A tape backup storage solution that provides an economical way to meet regulatory compliance and other long-term data requirements. Tapes are catalogued, archived in LightEdge’s secure data center and accessible when needed.
Benefits of LightEdge Managed Backup
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FEATURE
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BENEFIT
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Block-level Incremental Backup
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Block level incremental backup is the most efficient way to transport, store and administer data for an incremental backup. After the initial backup process, only changed blocks are transmitted to the LightEdge storage servers. Each incremental backup provides a snapshot of the system at that particular point in time. Recovery can be made from the last backup or any previous backup snapshots, either as a complete point-in-time recover or selective file-level recovery.
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Transparent Backup
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Managed Backup integrates seamlessly with your in-house network, or servers that are co-located or dedicated through LightEdge. Your production servers continue to operate normally, while Server Agents work in the background to transparently transmit data to LightEdge storage servers over a QoS managed connection at regular intervals during regular business hours. The frequency of backup allows for a more time sensitive recovery point and better overall data recovery.
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Managed Recovery
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When a recovery situation arises, the process is initiated and coordinated by your staff, but ultimately managed and implemented through LightEdge’s professional staff to ensure the safety of your data.
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File, Volume, and Directory Level Restore
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A unique snapshot technology allows many levels of restore. Professional administrators can quickly and easily restore files, volumes or directories based on an incremental snapshot. Together, the granular restoration functionality and professional restoration management ensures faster recovery time and better business continuity.
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About MarketSphere Consulting
MarketSphere Consulting is a premier business consulting firm with world-class, industry-leading consultants. The company provides top-quality consulting talent with an uncompromising position on flexibility, innovation and value generation. MarketSphere’s business-oriented, delivery-focused perspective helps clients achieve their strategic, operational and technology objectives. Learn more at www.marketsphere.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.
27Jun
New Email Hosting Service Launched for Apple Mac users!
Posted by Exchange Hosting Reviews as Press Releases, Simply Mail Solutions
Hosted Zimbra CS from SMS is first hosting service in the UK to properly support Apple Mac users
Warrington Tuesday 27th June 2006. Simply Mail Solutions, the UK?s Email Hosting specialists have launched a new email service that for the first time properly supports Apple Macintosh email applications such as Apple Mail and Apple collaboration tools.
Commented Colin Smith, Managing Director of SMS: ?We wanted to be able to host an enhanced email package that supported Apple and UNIX users fully. We have found this with the award winning Zimbra CS server software. It syncs properly with the Apple applications and has a really superb AJAX based web mail interface allowing users to do everything while on the move. All our accounts include free use of a domain which means that the account is then a PIE (Provider Independent Email) account which so users no longer have to change their email address if they change their ISP. This is important because switching is much easier and common than it used to be with all the ?free? offers now available. And at ?3.99 per month we have been able to make it really competitive?
He added “We’ve made it very simple for Mac users to sync their calendar and contact data with SMS Zimbra CS. There are no additional software packages needed. SMS Zimbra CS will sync natively with Apple iCal and Apple Address Book.”
Simply Mail Solutions also offers two other email hosting options: SMS Nexgen UNIX based POP3 email but with advanced features and Microsoft Exchange Hosting ? particularly strong for its mobile computing features with Windows Mobile 5. In all cases customers can opt for individual mailboxes on the company?s servers or have servers dedicated to their own use.
One strong feature of the company?s offerings is the ability to use the same domain across the range of services ? e.g. customers can have POP3 mailboxes for ?1.00 per month and enhanced mailboxes using Microsoft Exchange for ?5.99 per month all with the same @yourorganisation.com email address.
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 at www.simplymailsolutions.com or email [email protected] Tel: 0 1925 818 448
21Jun
Zimbra Hosting hits UK Market with SMS!
Posted by Exchange Hosting Reviews as Press Releases, Simply Mail Solutions
Email Hosting Specialist Simply Mail Solutions adds the Zimbra Collaboration Suite to its Product Line-up
Warrington Tuesday 20th June 2006. Simply Mail Solutions, the UK?s Email Hosting specialists have announced that they are adding the Zimbra Collaboration Suite to their range of hosted email services.
Commented Bill Unsworth, Chairman: ?With Zimbra we are adding a really superbly featured enhanced email package to our hosting services. The AJAX based web interface is second to none and Zimbra CS offers a full range of collaboration capabilities. We have been able to price it extremely competitively and see it being attractive to a wide section of the fast growing hosting market including Windows based users but also the sectors not so well catered for up to now such as Apple and UNIX.?
Commented Martin Vickerton of Zimbra UK: ?We are very pleased to be partnered with SMS on providing Zimbra on demand and we are committed to the UK and European markets.? Zimbra believes that the market is ready for an innovative, open source collaboration solution that includes support for existing IT investments like Microsoft Outlook.?
Simply Mail Solutions offers three email hosting options: SMS Nexgen UNIX based POP3 email but with advanced features, Microsoft Exchange Hosting ? particularly strong for its mobile computing features with Windows Mobile 5 and now Zimbra Collaboration Suite. In all cases customers can opt for individual mailboxes on the company?s servers or have servers dedicated to their own use. One strong feature of the company?s offerings is the ability to use the same domain across the range of services ? e.g. customers can have POP3 mailboxes for ?1.00 per month and enhanced mailboxes such as Microsoft Exchange for ?5.99 per month all with the same @yourorganisation com email address.
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 at www.simplymailsolutions.com or email [email protected]
20Jun
LiveOffice Launches Next Generation Websites For Financial Professionals
Posted by Exchange Hosting Reviews as LiveOffice, Press Releases
NEW YORK, June 20, 2006 Today at the Securities Industry Association’s Technology Management Conference, LiveOffice Corp.’s (www.liveoffice.com) AdvisorSquare division introduced WebSuites, the next generation of websites, to the financial services industry. AdvisorSquare WebSuites are the first turnkey websites to couple professionally designed web pages with fully integrated collaboration and communication tools that allow financial professionals to connect and interact with their Internet-savvy clients and prospects.
Among their many features, AdvisorSquare WebSuites enable financial professionals to post pre-recorded podcasts and conduct online meetings and teleseminars right from the pages of their website. AdvisorSquare’s WebSuites increase operational efficiencies, decrease travel expenses and enhance bi- and multi-directional communications.
WebSuites Make Financial Professionals Instant Podcasters
Two factors are at play in the increasing demand for financial information via podcast. First, financial advisors are looking for innovative ways to stay in touch with their clients. Second, many investors surf the web on a daily basis and now rely on it as their main source of financial information.
Podcasting is the natural next step for these investors because it provides them with the ability to download recorded financial and investment information right from a web page to their own portable player. This growing trend toward providing information via podcasting has led many financial advisors to begin searching for ways to produce their own downloadable recordings quickly and cost effectively.
AdvisorSquare WebSuites’ podcast production capabilities provide the solution for financial advisors by allowing them to record a teleconference or audio portion of a web seminar and then immediately post it to their WebSuite as a podcast. Once posted, any client or prospect can either listen to the recorded session directly from the web page or download it to their portable MP3 player and listen to it while they are on the go or at home. In fact, podcasting is proving to be an excellent marketing tool for many firms because once a recorded session is posted; it can be picked up by search engines, which exposes it to an audience of hundreds, thousands or millions of potential listeners.
From Web Page to Web Conference
Visitors to an AdvisorSquare WebSuite can also join web conferences in real-time through the web page. All they have to do is visit the site, click on the web- or teleconference they want to join and they will immediately be gathered into a scheduled online web meeting where they can view PowerPoint slides, participate in question and answer sessions via online polling features, collaboratively work on a document, begin a hi-definition videoconference and more. In addition the web and audio portions of each meeting can be recorded and posted online for later playback at any time. This feature enables website visitors to listen to or watch posted seminars at their convenience.
Pre-Recorded Audio Greetings & Click-to-Call Features
AdvisorSquare WebSuites provide financial professionals with the ability to post an audio greeting to their site. When a visitor clicks on the audio greeting link, the voice of the site owner or spokesperson welcomes them to the website and provides them with any other relevant information or updates. This feature also acts as an essential part of a business continuity plan since it allows the site owner to record a message with updated contact information from anywhere. The recording is then posted to the website so that clients and employees are able to obtain the most up-to-date information on the status of the office building and emergency contact details, just by visiting the AdvisorSquare WebSuite’s home page.
In addition, AdvisorSquare WebSuites’ unique Click-to-Call feature provides an instant, live communication channel between site visitors and the business office. Site visitors simply click a button on the home page, enter in their phone number and are immediately connected via phone to a live person in the financial advisor’s office.
All of the AdvisorSquare WebSuite features mentioned above are provided through LiveOffice, including on-demand, reservationless teleconferencing, web conferencing, video conferencing and podcast production.
Pricing and Availability
AdvisorSquare WebSuite pricing is the same as AdvsiorSquare’s existing premium website package with a standard, one-time setup fee of $750 and an ongoing monthly maintenance and hosting fee of $149. Existing AdvisorSquare power users are already taking advantage of WebSuites, which will become publicly available next month.
SIA Technology Management Conference
LiveOffice is currently demonstrating all of its solutions, including AdvisorSquare WebSuites, in booth #2119 at the SIA Technology Management Conference today through Thursday at the Hilton New York in midtown Manhattan.
20Jun
LiveOffice Expands AdvisorMail Email Archiving Service with New Mailbox Management & Business Continuity Features
Posted by Exchange Hosting Reviews as LiveOffice, Press Releases
NEW YORK, June 20, 2006 Today at the Securities Industry Association’s Technology Management Conference, LiveOffice Corporation (www.liveoffice.com) announced the addition of fully integrated mailbox management and business continuity features to AdvisorMail, its hosted message archiving solution. The new functions in AdvisorMail 5.0 provide continuous user access to both new and archived message data even if the in-house mail server suffers an outage, improve storage efficiencies, and reduce email-related operating and storage expenditures for companies of all sizes.
“When it comes to deploying an effective message archiving system and plan, two of the biggest issues that companies face today are mailbox management and business continuity,” said Michael Osterman, principal of Osterman Research. “The good news is that leading archiving vendors such as LiveOffice are tailoring their product enhancement roadmaps to meet these challenges and working together with companies to make sure their message management needs are met in all areas.”
Mail Recovery: Outsourced Business Continuity
AdvisorMail’s new, always-on Mail Recovery provides firms with a cost-effective method for ensuring that employees have access to business-critical messages when unexpected disasters strike an in-house mail server. Since AdvisorMail’s message archive is fully integrated with LiveOffice’s webmail client, users have complete email functionality as well as access to current and archived messages from any Internet-connected PC, ensuring that system outages do not cause a loss of email data or missed business opportunities.
The Mail Recovery feature also eliminates the need to pay tens of thousands of dollars to recover lost data from a disabled mail server, and it reduces IT costs and overhead by making it possible to preserve the flow of inbound and outbound email communications, without the assistance of an on-site system administrator.
Mailbox Management: Hosted Offline Message Storage
AdvisorMail’s new Mailbox Management functionality helps organizations optimize server performance and reduce storage costs. When mail volume reaches pre-defined thresholds, this technology facilitates the automatic offloading of data from the in-house mail server to more cost-effective storage media in the highly secure LiveOffice data center. Once the data is moved, users can still access items in the mail archive based on permissions or specific company retention policies, ensuring no interruption in business workflow. The service also includes message backup capabilities, which help to remove the backup burden from internal IT staff.
“Our reputation for continuously responding to the needs of our customers has established AdvisorMail as one of the top hosted message archiving solutions available today,” said Mary Cilva, AdvisorMail product manager for LiveOffice Corp. “With AdvisorMail 5.0 we have once again demonstrated our solid commitment to providing organizations with the tools they need to cost effectively manage their email data and ensure optimal operational efficiency in a variety of situations.”
The Total Solution for Archiving & Compliance
With more than 750 customers, AdvisorMail is one of the few message archiving products on the market that offers end-to-end message management including compliance capabilities. The system enables users to monitor, search, archive and retrieve large volumes of message data at any time, while offering a variety of integrated features such as advanced anti-spam and anti-virus protection. In addition, AdvisorMail’s web-based interface offers compliance workflow tools that enable internal compliance and audit personnel to review messages and ensure that compliance guidelines are being met at all times. AdvisorMail requires no additional hardware or software at the customer site and is compatible with leading SMTP email systems, including MS Exchange and Lotus Notes.
Pricing and Availability
Mail Recovery and Mailbox Management are available now as options with AdvisorMail. Pricing for the new features begins at $100 per month based on the number of email addresses. Pricing for AdvisorMail begins at $2,500 annually.
SIA Technology Management Conference
LiveOffice is currently demonstrating its suite of solutions for financial services professionals in booth #2119 at the SIA Technology Management Conference today through Thursday at the Hilton New York in midtown Manhattan.
20Jun
Asp-One, Division of Apptix, Continues Its Growth Surpassing 20,000 Hosted Exchange Users
Posted by Exchange Hosting Reviews as ASP-One, Press Releases
Accelerated Growth Consistent with Increased Adoption of Hosted Exchange Services by SMBs
Herndon, VA (PRWEB) June 20, 2006
ASP-One, a premiere provider of http://www.asp-one.com/exchange_hosting [Microsoft Exchange Hosting Services] for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), today announced that it has achieved a major milestone, having surpassed 20,000 Hosted Exchange subscribers. ASP-One, www.asp-one.com, has achieved a 45 percent increase in subscribers in the last six months.
“Representing a distinctive collection of nearly 430 luxury hotels, resorts and spas in over 74 countries, and a network of more than 20 regional offices in key cities around the world, having a reliable, highly available email system is mission critical,” said George Lee, Director of Information Technology for Leading Hotels of the World. “Our decision to outsource this system to ASP-One in 2002 allows us to focus on our core business of providing five star service and preferences of the affluent consumers in this new age of luxury marketing.
As a market leader in serving the SMB market, ASP-One provides customers who have limited, internal resources and staff with improved IT capabilities, service flexibility and scalability. ASP-One delivers http://www.asp-one.com/exchange_hosting [Hosted Exchange] to the burgeoning SMB market. Most recently, the company added GoodLink™ Mobile Service for SmartPhones, Treos and Other Handheld devices to complement its existing BlackBerry® Mobile Service. Mobile messaging services allow mobile employees to access their http://www.asp-one.com/exchange_hosting/features [Exchange Hosting] solution anywhere, anytime. In addition, ASP-One added an Archiving and Compliance solution to address the growing demand to support government and corporate compliance mandates.
“SMB organizations now truly understand the clear advantages of hosted application delivery for software solutions like Microsoft Exchange,” said Alex Yevelev, Vice President of Web Direct Sales for Apptix. “Over the last year, we have experienced a significant increase in the number of customers moving from an in-house solution to our outsourced model.”
19Jun
SMS Puts Wind up ISPs with new Email Service!
Posted by Exchange Hosting Reviews as Press Releases, Simply Mail Solutions
Email Hosting Specialist Simply Mail Solutions launches a new POP3 Email service called ?SMS NexGen? aimed at individual and SME email users
Warrington Monday 19th June 2006. Simply Mail Solutions, the UK?s Email Hosting specialists have launched a new PO3 email service which has many more features and facilities compared with the service most ISPs give their customers.
Commented Colin Smith, Managing Director of SMS: ?Email has moved on and most ISPs provide a pretty basic POP3 email service. Our new SMS NexGen service based on the UNIX Zimbra OS server software has a really superb web interface and lots of other features such as calendar support. We also include free use of a domain in the price of only ?1.00 per month which is something most ISPs charge for so really this makes the package very competitive. In addition the account is then a PIE (Provider Independent Email) account which means that users no longer have to change their email address if they change their ISP. This is important because switching is much easier and common than it used to be with all the ?free? offers now available?
Simply Mail Solutions offers two email hosting options: SMS Nexgen UNIX based POP3 email but with advanced features, Microsoft Exchange Hosting ? particularly strong for its mobile computing features with Windows Mobile 5 and collaboration tools. In all cases customers can opt for individual mailboxes on the company?s servers or have servers dedicated to their own use. One strong feature of the company?s offerings is the ability to use the same domain across the range of services ? e.g. customers can have POP3 mailboxes for ?1.00 per month and enhanced mailboxes using Microsoft Exchange for ?5.99 per month all with the same @yourorganisation com email address.
The following table compares the new service with typical accounts from ISPs.
Feature
SMS
ISP
Comments
Use of domain#
Free
Extra charge
Customise your email address and make PIE!
Web Access
Best on the market!
Usually minimal
Very important for checking on the move
POP3
Yes
Yes
IMAP
Yes
Usually
Web Mailbox search
Yes
Sometimes
Find your email even from web interface
Advanced searches
Yes
No
Find even when there is lots of email!
Search Attachments
Yes
No
Dig deeper!
Personal Calendar
Yes
No
On-line backup and store including mailboxes
yes
No
Get your mail back if you accidentally delete it.
RSS support
Yes
No
Get your personal news
Contacts
Yes
No
Find contacts easily even when out of office
AntiSpam
Yes
Sometimes
Cut the junk mail
Antivirus
Yes
Sometimes
Avoid infection
On-line help
Yes
No
Get the most from the service
Supports Outlook facilities
Yes
No
Use with contacts and calendar
Cost
?1 per month*
From ?1 to ?2 per month+
SMS gives you more for less!
# Domain registration is normally an extra charge.
* Paid for annually in advance.? ??????
+ Including cost of use of domain.
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 at www.simplymailsolutions.com or email [email protected]
14Jun
Perceptive Software, LightEdge Solutions Partner to offer Hosted Application
Posted by Exchange Hosting Reviews as LightEdge Solutions, Press Releases
SHAWNEE, Kan.; DES MOINES, Iowa (June 14, 2006) – Software developer, Perceptive Software Inc., and technology outsourcing firm, LightEdge Solutions, recently announced a partnership that will enable Perceptive Software to offer its document management, imaging and workflow software on an additional web-enabled application.
Perceptive Software is on the leading edge of a trend called Software as a Service (SaaS). As a hosted model, a SaaS-enabled application is a true “zero-footprint” solution which provides the benefit of the software without the infrastructure and maintenance normally associated with additional technology. The processing power, storage and maintenance necessary to run the application is provided through partner, LightEdge Solutions.
Scott Coons, president and CEO of Perceptive Software, said, “We’re pleased to expand our customers’ options and offer them the ability to acquire our solutions through an additional deployment strategy. SaaS-enabled software is effective, easy to implement and very cost-effective.”
The CEOs of both LightEdge Solutions and Perceptive Software were both recently honored by being named finalists in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year awards program for the Central Midwest region. “LightEdge chooses partners very carefully. It’s gratifying to see that all of the positive attributes that we saw in Perceptive Software were also recognized by Ernst & Young,” Jim Masterson, CEO of LightEdge Solutions, said, “Each company has incredible vision, drive and talent; together our synergy and potential is limitless.”
About SaaS
Software as a Solution, most notably used by Salesforce.com, is emerging as a trend which Gartner Group has declared as one of the top five technologies of 2005. The reason SaaS is becoming popular is due to sheer economics. Many companies need solutions but cannot afford the upfront cost to purchase, implement and maintain the infrastructure necessary to host them. SaaS eases implementation, provides scalability and removes hurdles associated with upfront costs.
About Perceptive Software
Perceptive Software, Inc., develops integrated document management, imaging and workflow software solutions that simplify business processes by delivering secure, digitized versions of paper and other electronic documents while leveraging existing applications. Customers in a broad range of industries worldwide have taken advantage of ImageNow, Perceptive Software’s flagship software offering. For more information, visit www.imagenow.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.
07Jun
LightEdge Solutions Acquires Business Division of NexGen Integrated Communications
Posted by Exchange Hosting Reviews as LightEdge Solutions, Press Releases
DES MOINES, Iowa—-June 7, 2006-LightEdge Solutions, Inc., a leader in converged data networking, voice-over-Internet-protocol (VoIP) and managed IT business services, today announced its acquisition of the business division of NexGen Integrated Communications, a provider of business and residential Internet, voice and cable TV services in Urbandale, Iowa.
LightEdge acquires substantially all of NexGen’s commercial assets and the 700 customers related to its business Internet services in Des Moines, Cedar Rapids and Iowa City, Iowa and Omaha, Nebraska. All NexGen business customers will be integrated with LightEdge. NexGen retains all of the assets and the 3,000 customers subscribing to its residential service in Des Moines and will continue to service its residential customers under the NexGen name.
“This transaction further expands our coverage areas and strengthens our ability to serve business customers with next generation converged voice and data services,” said Jim Masterson, chairman and chief executive officer of LightEdge. “NexGen’s business assets provide us with direct access to telecom facilities that will enable us to deliver new services such as Ethernet over copper, which means that small and midsized businesses will have cost-effective access to voice and data speeds greater than traditional DSL or T-1 in Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and Omaha. With higher speeds and capacity, these businesses will also have access to LightEdge’s Fortune-500-caliber managed IT services like storage and online backup at affordable rates.”
The acquisition will provide NexGen business customers, as well as other small and midsize businesses in Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and Omaha, with access to advanced technology services such as VoIP phone systems, data networking and business services at affordable monthly rates. Since these services are available from LightEdge as hosted and fully managed solutions, businesses can avoid the significant up-front capital infrastructure investment typically required to deploy and maintain such systems.
All employees from both entities will be retained. LightEdge is currently hiring to meet continued demand for its services. Terms of the transaction will not be disclosed.
About NexGen Integrated Communications
NexGen Communications is a provider of residential phone, Internet and cable TV primarily to the MDU (multi-dwelling unit) market. NexGen provides complete carrier class voice and Internet services via their own network and have partnered with a large national cable TV provider as the only licensed MDU dealer in Iowa. NexGen delivers service that is outstanding, comprehensive, innovative, competitively priced and just plain astonishing.
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.
05Jun
SMS Launches Reseller Service for its range of EMAIL Services
Posted by Exchange Hosting Reviews as Press Releases, Simply Mail Solutions
Unique Partner Program allows third parties to make real money from Internet?s Most Popular Service
June 5th? 2006, Warrington UK. Simply Mail Solutions (SMS) the UK based Email Hosting Company has announced the launch of a new Partner program. It is aimed at the many IT resellers, dealers and consultancies that buy in services on behalf of their clients. As email services get more sophisticated and more business critical the demands on resellers are becoming greater if they are to develop and retain their own user bases.
In the past companies have resorted to running their own mail servers very often with the help of a third party. This was feasible for the majority up until a few years ago. However two things have happened that make this no longer feasible ? the use of enhanced email programs such as Microsoft Exchange and the increasing use of mobile devices to access email.
MS Exchange requires a whole extra level of expertise to set up properly and remote access means that companies no longer want to run the mail server on their local network but place it directly on the Internet rather than at the end of a single leased line or SDSL line. By working with a SMS both these problems are solved for the reseller.
A unique feature of the SMS reseller scheme is its simplicity and ease of joining. Attractive discounts apply even at initial smaller levels of business.
SMS offers 3 levels to its scheme:-
1. Commission Program. Commission resellers can sell all of SMS products for generous commissions ? a percentage of the first year?s revenues.
2. Discount Program. The SMS offer for hosting resellers. No start-up fees or minimum sales ? just profits from day one, with generous discounts.
3. Package Program. For Whiteboard resellers. This program costs nothing to join and has no minimums ? the reseller set the prices for its own customers, so can define its own profits.
More information on the scheme is available at:
http://www.simplymailsolutions.com/resellers.asp
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