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  • Premium Email Archiving On A Small Business Budget

Exchange Hosting for February, 2009

TORRANCE, Calif., February 25, 2009 — LiveOffice, the leading provider of software-as-a-service(SaaS) email archiving solutions, today issued the following open letter to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and other United States governors grappling with budget cuts, furloughs, hiring freezes and layoffs:

Dear Governor Schwarzenegger & Other United States Governors:

It’s no secret, times are tough. In light of the current economy, you have to make do with far fewer resources than ever before. At the same time, you still need technologies in place to keep your states running smoothly and in compliance with the multitude of current laws and regulations (FRCP, California Public Records Act, Sunshine Laws). With the ever-growing volumes of email and the critical importance of maintaining it as a government record, your technology departments are struggling with how to keep email systems operating without the funding they need.

We have a solution for you – SaaS email management. With this model, your technology teams can outsource all email-related tasks to an expert vendor, and you only pay for what you need on a monthly basis. The flexibility of SaaS during tough economic times means your technology teams can:

  • Add and remove users as needed, without paying for unused accounts or waiting to scale your infrastructure
  • Maintain full control of email, while shifting the burden and expense of high network uptime and reliability to an enterprise-class vendor
  • Get up and running with fully hosted email and legally compliant archiving in just a matter of days (not months) without disrupting end users

In response to these difficult economic times, we are introducing the LiveOffice Economic Recovery Plan. This program is designed to provide state and local governments as well as educational institutions with an effective solution for managing email systems, while also ensuring that all retention and compliance requirements are seamlessly met. And, to those public sector and non-profit organizations facing uncertainty about your government funding, financing and budgets for this year, we also invite you to signup. The LiveOffice Economic Recovery Plan allows you to take advantage of our SaaS-based email archiving and hosting solutions with no monthly payments until June 1, 2009.*

For more information on this program, please contact one of our Economic Recovery Plan Experts at 800.374.2032.

Respectfully,

Nick Mehta
CEO, LiveOffice

LCS (LightEdge Consulting Services) to bridge the gap between premises-based solutions and hosted business IT services for small and medium-sized businesses

DES MOINES, IA, February 24, 2009 – LightEdge, the leading hosted services partner dedicated to the full breadth of communications and IT needs for small and medium-sized businesses (SMB), today announced the formation of LightEdge Consulting Services (LCS), an independently operated consulting subsidiary designed to expand LightEdge’s hosted delivery model to include premises-based solutions, architecture design and implementation. LCS will offer a wide range of business IT consulting services including: discovery/design recommendations, solutions architecture, server maintenance, patch management, backup solutions and virtualization through Hyper-V and VMware. The company can also provide proficiencies and platform design for Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Office Communication Server, Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft SQL implementations and migrations.

The company was formed to provide small and medium-sized businesses accessibility to consultants with a broad base of IT experience. Many businesses have concerns related to their business technology but are unsure of the solutions available and their relative costs and benefits. LCS is in a unique position not only to engage and determine the root cause of these issues, but to provide a clear and cost-effective recommendation for a solution, based on their experience with on-premises solutions for SMB and enterprise businesses, as well as hosted solutions through LightEdge. Once the solution is defined, LCS can step back to an advisory position or implement the solution entirely, including on-going maintenance.

“The opportunity to discuss business needs and potential solutions with someone who is knowledgeable with both traditional office-based solutions and hosted business services is a game-changer for business owners as it gives them access to a wide variety of viable options,” said Jeff Springborn, president and COO of LightEdge. “LCS is an interesting concept in consulting because it is highly personalized for the customer and ultimately delivers the best solution for their needs, whether that is an on-premises solution, a hosted service or a combination of both.”

In recent years, server technology has become more complicated and, as such, requires increased specialization to implement and maintain it. The latest version of Microsoft Exchange Server (2007) includes 5 separate server roles, requiring a platform spanning multiple servers. This level of sophistication has created an additional need in the market for qualified and experienced IT consultants.

“Through our experience working with Fortune 500 companies, small and medium-sized businesses and our understanding of large-scale hosted environments, we have developed ‘best practices’ that can we leverage for our customers to create high reliability platforms,” said John Jarrell, Director of Operations for LCS. “As an adjunct part of a company’s IT staff, LCS can reduce costs and improve efficiency by completing projects that require specialized knowledge and experience.”

LCS operates nationally but will focus its efforts in the upper Midwest: Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Illinois.

About LCS
LightEdge Consulting Services (LCS) is uniquely positioned as the only communications and IT consultant with the vision and knowledge to bridge the gap between premises-based and hosted technology environments. The company’s experience with Fortune-500, SMB and hosted environments provides the insight necessary to develop “best practice” solutions for its customers. For more information, visit www.lightedgeconsulting.com.

About LightEdge
LightEdge is the only hosted services partner fully dedicated to providing a full breadth of communications and IT services to small and medium-sized businesses looking for a better way to focus on their core business, not the technology that supports it. For more information, visit www.lightedge.com.

LightEdge®, the LightEdge logo and Scale-on-Demand™ are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of LightEdge Solutions, Inc.

Famed ‘Five Nines’ of Uptime Brings Enterprise-Grade Exchange Hosting Performance to SMB Market; Supports the Most Demanding Application Environments

New York, NY (February 23, 2009) - (BUSINESS WIRE) - Intermedia, the leading software as a service (SaaS) provider specializing in messaging and collaboration solutions, today announced that it has raised its uptime guarantee from 99.99 percent to 99.999 percent on its hosted Exchange solutions. This new service level agreement (SLA) is among the most reliable solutions on the market today, and Intermedia is the only provider to offer this SLA on a shared Exchange platform.

“This new SLA reflects our ongoing goal to provide small- and medium-sized businesses with a hosted solution that offers enterprise-grade performance and reliability at a reasonable cost,” said Jonathan McCormick, Chief Operating Officer for Intermedia. “We are very proud to have achieved this high level of operational expertise and remain committed to improving our operations and focusing on business process improvements on an ongoing basis. Our goal is to provide our customers with the highest quality hosted messaging service on the market today, and to provide the infrastructure they need to work efficiently and stay focused on growing their businesses.”

“Our sales transactions are predominantly Internet-based, making email ‘uptime’ a mission critical component of our ability to operate efficiently and ultimately grow our business,” said Tom Halter, Director of Information technology for JC Whitney, the largest direct marketer of auto parts and accessories. “We have entrusted our e-mail and communications needs to Intermedia for the past year, and are especially pleased to upgrade our performance to the highest industry standard available today.”

18Feb

Fpweb.net Sponsors SharePoint.Org Conference

Posted by Exchange Hosting Reviews as Fpweb.net, Press Releases

February 18, 2009 – Managed hosting provider Fpweb.net (www.fpweb.net) is now a Gold Sponsor and exhibitor at the upcoming SharePoint.Org Conference in Baltimore, MD on March 22-24, 2009. Fpweb.net CEO, Rob LaMear IV will also be speaking at the event.

SharePoint.Org, held by SusQtech, is the second annual SharePoint conference for associations and non-profit organizations. “We are excited to showcase our Managed SharePoint Hosting services at this event,” said LaMear. “As the first and only company in the world to host SharePoint back in 1999, we have a high level of knowledge and experience to share with this group.”

Attendees will have access to daily sessions packed with information and expertise for SharePoint WSS and MOSS users of all levels. Fpweb.net will also be providing an educational session, presented by LaMear himself, on the benefits of SharePoint in a Software as a Service (SaaS) hosted model. “Since we already host SharePoint for several non-profit and government agencies, we understand the needs and requirements involved in their unique SharePoint environments,” said LaMear. “This session will explain how a SaaS provider can take care of those requirements for them, saving the organization time and money.”

For more information or to register for the SharePoint.Org Conference, go to www.sharepointconference.org. Fpweb.net will also be attending several other SharePoint Conferences in 2009. For details on these events, Fpweb.net’s Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) hosting or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) hosting, visit their site or call 866.780.4678.

Founded in 1996, Fpweb.net provides managed hosting services for SharePoint, MOSS, Hosted Exchange and Project Server. Their worry-free solutions offer clients the ability to focus on their core business, while cutting IT costs 60%. With more than 1 million SharePoint users around the world, Fpweb.net strives to become the leading customer service organization in the hosting industry. As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner with 24/7 US support, they’ve earned the trust of over 5,000 enterprise clients including the NY Yankees, U.S. Air Force, IBM and DOW Chemical.

Research report identifies the world’s most progressive Managed Service Providers

DES MOINES , Iowa — February 17, 2009 – LightEdge Solutions Inc., the leading hosted services partner dedicated to the communications and IT needs for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), today announced that it has been ranked 4th by managed services revenue and 24th overall in Nine Lives Media’s annual MSPmentor 100, a distinguished research report identifying the world’s most progressive managed service providers.

“LightEdge is thrilled to be represented among the best managed service providers in the world,” remarked Jeff Springborn, president and COO of LightEdge Solutions. “Our success has really come from the vision to see the widening gap in communications and IT for small to medium-sized businesses, and the ability of our staff to skillfully execute plans to bring our services to market before our competitors.”

LightEdge operates state-of-the-art data centers in Des Moines, IA; Altoona, IA; Moline, IL and Minneapolis, MN connected by a Cisco-powered MPLS network. The company offers one of the widest breadth of services for business customers including: Voice-over-IP, SIP Trunking, Managed Offsite Backup, Hosted Microsoft Exchange, Hosted Office Communications Server 2007, Collocation, Dedicated Servers and Meshed IP WAN.

The MSPmentor 100 report recognizes the leading companies that are driving and shaping the managed services industry. The MSPmentor 100 report, available at www.MSPmentor.net, is based on data gathered from MSPmentor’s global online survey, conducted October through December 2008. Ranking was based on many variables including:

  • Total managed services revenue ( in U.S. dollars, 2008)
  • Managed services revenue growth (in U.S. dollars, 2008 vs. 2007)
  • Managed service revenue growth (percentage, 2008 vs. 2007)
  • Percentage of company revenue from managed services (2008)
  • Number of devices managed (2008)
  • Devices managed growth, actual number (2008 vs. 2007)
  • Devices managed percentage growth (2008 vs. 2007)
  • MSP revenue per technician

“There’s no doubting the momentum of managed service providers within the MSPmentor 100,” said Joe Panettieri, editorial director of MSPmentor. “As a whole, MSPmentor 100 companies generated nearly $800 million in managed services revenue in 2008, up a dramatic 46 percent from 2007.”

MSPmentor, produced by Nine Lives Media Inc., is the ultimate guide to managed services. MSPmentor features the industry’s top-ranked blog, research, Webcasts, podcasts and videos. It is the number one online media destination for managed service providers in the world.

About LightEdge
LightEdge is the only hosted services partner fully dedicated to providing a full breadth of communications and IT services to small and medium-sized businesses looking for a better way to focus on their core business, not the technology that supports it. For more information, visit www.lightedge.com.

About Nine Lives Media Inc.
Nine Lives Media Inc. (www.NineLivesMediaInc.com) embraces the changing IT media landscape. In fact, we help to shape it. We focus on highly targeted IT audiences, specialized content and lead generation services. We disrupt established markets and we shape new ones.

Contact:
LightEdge Solutions
Scott Riedel, Director of Marketing
515-471-1256 or

Nine Lives Media Inc:
Joe Panettieri, Editorial Director
631-423-3536 or

Fpweb.net Offers SharePoint Design Services

February 11, 2009 – Managed hosting provider Fpweb.net (www.fpweb.net) now offers SharePoint Express Design, a custom SharePoint design and development service, for their hosted WSS and MOSS customers.

SharePoint Express Design is Fpweb.net’s most basic SharePoint development package. It can be applied to Fpweb.net Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) v3 hosting or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 hosting. “We’ve designed this service to be a quick turnaround for custom branded SharePoint sites,” said Rob LaMear IV, Fpweb.net CEO. “Express Design allows customers to roll out sleek SharePoint sites, complete with their corporate look and feel, in less than 24 hours.”

This offer includes company logo placement, custom color palette, theme selection / implementation, custom home page setup and more for only $995. If the customer requires additional services beyond what’s included in this SharePoint design package, Fpweb.net offers free consultations and quotes on custom tailored SharePoint development projects.

For more information on SharePoint Design Services or custom SharePoint development projects from Fpweb.net, visit their site or call 866.780.4678.

Founded in 1996, Fpweb.net provides managed hosting services for SharePoint, MOSS, Exchange and Project Server. Their worry-free solutions offer clients the ability to focus on their core business, while cutting IT costs 60%. With more than 1 million SharePoint users around the world, Fpweb.net strives to become the leading customer service organization in the hosting industry. As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner with 24/7 US support, they’ve earned the trust of over 5,000 enterprise clients including the NY Yankees, U.S. Air Force, IBM and DOW Chemical.

11Feb

OWA becomes Outlook Live Supports non-IE browsers

Posted by Exchange Hosting Reviews as News

Finally a solution to some of sthe frustrations of OWA is here.  For all the people who only used Internet Explorer to connect to Microsoft Exchange, you no longer have to, finally.  If you are like me and prefer Firefox for 99% of your web usage, you also probably hated the limited access of OWA.  Welcome Outlook Live!  A multi browser answer to the traditional Outlook Web Access was long over due.  A required update to Exchange 14 is required to bring your Exchange Server to its cloud-like potential.  Another feature to drool for… threaded messages.  Check out this video for a look at Outlook Live.


First service provider to fully integrate BroadSoft’s hosted business voice with Microsoft’s communications and collaboration software.

DES MOINES, Iowa, REDMOND, Wash., and GAITHERSBURG, Md. — Feb. 10, 2009 — LightEdge Solutions Inc., the leading hosted services partner dedicated to the communications and IT needs for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), Microsoft Corp. and BroadSoft Inc. today announced the general availability of Hosted Unified Communications, a new service based on BroadSoft’s BroadWorks® Voice-over-IP (VoIP) application platform and Microsoft Solution for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration. The solution provides one platform for voice, e-mail, instant messaging and calendaring, allowing a user to work anywhere and collaborate in real time. Hosted Unified Communications is part of the LightEdge Connected Office suite of products, and helps SMBs more easily and cost-effectively obtain unified communications (UC) as a hosted service. LightEdge Connected Office suite includes Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 for hosted e-mail, BroadSoft BroadWorks Hosted PBX VoIP, Office Communications Server 2007 for instant messaging and presence, Microsoft Office Live Meeting and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. The solution can be purchased incrementally or as an entire integrated bundle to support a business’ e-mail, calendaring, conferencing, voice and collaboration needs.

“Our goal is to offer SMBs a better and more cost-effective way to provide communications and IT systems to their employees,” said Jeff Springborn, president and COO of LightEdge. “Hosted Unified Communications helps us reinforce this aim, by providing an attractive alternative to purchasing, implementing and maintaining business communications systems in-house.”

Hosted Unified Communications offers a higher guaranteed level of service, managed and maintained 24×7 with faster provisioning than on-premises systems. The new solution streamlines communications for employees, allowing them to locate and communicate with the right person, in real time. It delivers PC-to-PC voice and video, webconferencing, and enterprise instant messaging and presence awareness while helping SMBs maintain operational control by converting a traditional upfront capital expense to a monthly operational expense.

“In today’s economy, it’s important to offer SMBs the flexibility to choose whether to deploy a UC solution in a hosted environment or on-premises, depending on their individual needs,” said John Zanni, general manager of Worldwide Software + Services Industry for the Communications Sector at Microsoft. “Hosted Unified Communications utilizes the BroadSoft® platform and Microsoft software to deliver a protected, fully hosted unified messaging and communications solution that allows SMBs to focus on their core business, without spending their time, money and resources managing a complex VoIP infrastructure.”

“Forward-thinking providers like LightEdge understand the powerful capabilities that result from combining best-of-breed solutions — business communications from BroadSoft and Microsoft’s business productivity software — and are able to deliver UC in an innovative way,” said David Bukovsky, vice president of products at BroadSoft. “There’s a growing demand among SMBs for UC to be delivered in a software as a service model as it enables them to reap all the productivity benefits of UC without the burden of deploying and maintaining UC solutions on their own. The LightEdge deployment validates the delivery model for integrated BroadSoft-Microsoft applications and represents a milestone for bringing hosted UC to the underserved SMB market.”

LightEdge also announced that it has achieved Microsoft Gold Certified Partner status in the Hosting Solutions Competency, distinguishing itself as an expert in the hosting industry. Microsoft’s Hosting Solutions Competency, introduced in 2008, provides hosting partners with access to a unique set of resources including hosting tools, sales and support strategies, and training opportunities.

More information on Hosted Unified Communications and the LightEdge Connected Office suite of hosted communication services can be obtained by calling (877) 771-3343 or visiting http://www.lightedge.com.

About LightEdge
LightEdge is the only hosted services partner fully dedicated to providing a full breadth of communications and IT services to small and medium-sized businesses looking for a better way to focus on their core business, not the technology that supports it. For more information, visit www.lightedge.com.

About BroadSoft
BroadSoft® provides VoIP application software that enables the delivery of hosted telephony and multimedia services. After the 2008 acquisitions Sylantro and the GENBAND M6 product line, BroadSoft has emerged as the undisputed market leader of VoIP application servers. BroadSoft’s family of carrier-class products, including its award-winning flagship BroadWorks® technology, empowers wireless, wireline and cable carriers to deliver next-generation voice and multimedia applications and advanced features that enable them to increase revenue, enhance competitive differentiation and elevate customer satisfaction. BroadSoft’s products deliver the scale, open architecture and reliability that the world’s leading telecommunications companies demand to serve mission-critical enterprise and residential broadband customers. BroadSoft provides VoIP applications to eight of the top 10 and 14 of the top 25 largest carriers worldwide, as measured by recent annual revenue, including KPN, Korea Telecom, Qwest, SingTel, Sprint, Swisscom, Telefonica de Espana, Telstra, T-Systems, and Verizon. For additional information, go to www.BroadSoft.com.

About Microsoft
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

LightEdge Solutions® and the LightEdge Solutions logo, and Scale-on-Demand™ are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of LightEdge Solutions, Inc.
BroadSoft and BroadWorks are registered trademarks of BroadSoft, Inc. All other names are trademarks of their respective owners.

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Simply Mail Solutions hosts professional email solution for Honcho SFX

Warrington, UK, Tuesday February 10th 2009. Simply Mail Solutions, leading email hosting company, has announced that it is strongly interested in supporting SMEs like Honcho SFX ? a successful online retailer specialised in selling fashionable t-shirts that are worn by icons such as Paris Hilton, Daisy Lowe, Hayden Pannetierre and Rihanna.

Commented Colin Smith (Managing Director): ?With hosted services all sizes of business can now take advantage of the extra features available with the latest email systems and significantly leverage their productivity. Despite the fact that Honcho SFX are still a small business they have realised what advantages MS Exchange can have even for a smaller venture?.

Working from multiple locations Honcho SFX?s team members can now access their emails from wherever they connect and benefit from calendar scheduling, contact sharing and task organisation, i.e. the full collaboration features that MS Exchange offers.

Commented Amy Duckworth, Owner: ?We spent months looking for the best Exchange hosting company and we believe that we found it with SMS. We were able to speak to the tech guys at SMS and found their knowledge unsurpassed. It is also of an advantage that SMS are located in the UK. The final kicker however in favour of SMS is the price and the fact that they are catering for businesses of all sizes?.

For more details of SMS see:

www.simplymailsolutions.com

Business-critical Hosted Services, Customer Management Control Panel, and White-label Support Expands Partner Revenue Opportunities and Enhances Customer Loyalty

Herndon, VA – February 10, 2009 – Apptix (OSE: APP), the industry-leading provider of hosted Microsoft Exchange email, VoIP phone service, and SharePoint collaboration services for small and medium businesses (SMBs), today announced the launch of the Apptix Partner Program, a multi-tiered channel program that creates new revenue streams and increased average revenue per user (ARPU) opportunities for partners referring and reselling Apptix hosted services.

A new provisioning and management platform enables Apptix to offer channel partners an expanding portfolio of co-branded or white labeled, mission critical services. Apptix supplies a variety of up-front business services to accelerate a reseller’s entry into the market including a branded storefront, credit card billing, and branded customer facing billing. End-user adoption is simplified through easy-to-use registration and management tools. Resellers can manage their end-user accounts, assign or add new services, and make account changes via Apptix’s industry-leading administrative Web console. In addition, Apptix’s Customer Support team provides white-label, Tier 1, 24/7, live technical support.

“The comprehensive product portfolio and advanced technology behind our program significantly enhance reseller revenue opportunities and competitive advantages while dramatically expanding our universe of potential channel partners,” said Chris Damvakaris, vice president of sales and business development, Apptix. “Apptix offers a ‘business-in-a-box’ solution to address SMBs’ growing communications and IT needs that can be resold by large and small—as well as untraditional—reseller firms. Now, small business trusted advisors and consultants, such as accounting or legal firms with limited technical ability, can offer their clients mission-critical technical solutions, while leaving the hard part—deployment, management, customer service, and billing—to Apptix.”

Apptix’s available hosted product suite includes:

* Microsoft Exchange 2007 email
* Mobile email for a wide variety of devices, such as BlackBerry and iPhone
* Web conferencing & secure Instant Messaging (IM) via Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007
* Microsoft SharePoint collaboration services
* Domain name registration & DNS hosting
* Shared Web hosting
* Virtual Private Servers (VPS)

Apptix’s Partner Program offers four partnership opportunities:

* The Referral Program provides agent commissions on any Apptix purchases made by referral clients. Once a referral client becomes an Apptix customer, the agent receives a commission for any future Apptix purchases made by the client.
* For Resellers, Apptix provides a wide-ranging set of co-branded, out-of-the-box hosted services that users can deploy and manage, including white-label customer support provided by Apptix.
* Power Resellers receive the Reseller tool package, plus enhanced pricing on an expanded array of products to offer—and resell—to other resellers.
* Private Label Partners can extend service offerings with customized, hosted solutions from Apptix, sold under their own brand.

To learn more about the Apptix Partner Program, visit www.apptix.com/partners.

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About Apptix
Apptix (OSE: APP) is the leading provider of hosted email, voice, and collaboration services for small and medium-sized businesses, serving nearly 200,000 Exchange subscribers worldwide. A pioneer in the hosted services space, directly and through its MailStreet subsidiary, Apptix offers a variety of hosted communications and IT services including Microsoft Exchange; VoIP; Microsoft SharePoint; Web conferencing and secure Instant Message via Microsoft Office Communications Server; Online Backup by EMC’s Mozy; mobile messaging (including BlackBerry and iPhone), compliance and archiving; and a Web presence solution that includes domain registration, DNS hosting, and Website hosting. Apptix provides the reliability and scalability of enterprise-class communications solutions at a small business price, freeing IT staff to focus on improving and innovating within their companies. Apptix is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for Hosting and Application Services. Headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, Apptix is recognized as one of the CRN 2008 Fast Growth 100, Deloitte’s 2008 Virginia Technology Fast 50 and 2008 North American Technology Fast 500, Software Magazine’s 2008 Software500, and Washington Business Journal 2008 Fastest Growing Companies. For more information, visit www.apptix.com.

Apptix also Expands Suite of Hosted Business Services with Unified Messaging Platform, Virtual Private Servers, and Online Presence Solution

Herndon, VA – February 10, 2009 – Apptix (OSE: APP), the industry-leading provider of hosted Microsoft Exchange email, VoIP phone service, and SharePoint collaboration services for small and medium businesses (SMBs), today announced that it has launched a series of new services, providing a comprehensive product portfolio to address SMB and resellers’ communications and IT needs. This move is signified by the inclusion of enterprise-class, multimedia Web conferencing and secure Instant Messaging (IM) utilizing Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007.

Apptix also added hosted Virtual Private Servers (VPS) and an Online Presence solution that includes domain registration, Domain Name System (DNS) hosting, and Windows Website hosting to its product suite. Apptix recently announced the availability of an Online Backup service, which enables online backup and data recovery service via a partnership with EMC’s Mozy.

Affordable and Robust Web Conferencing Capabilities
Apptix is one of the first providers to offer integrated Microsoft Office Live Meeting Web conferencing and secure IM capability through an affordable monthly subscription, starting at just $14.95—rather than on a per meeting basis—enabling businesses to hold as many online meetings as necessary without concern for cost. Desktop sharing as well as video and audio are integrated directly through Internet-connected PCs, eliminating the need for costly third-party video solutions and reducing conference phone charges.

An extensive set of tools—such as interactive whiteboards and surveys—encourages greater collaboration within meetings. The ability to incorporate multimedia capabilities, including movie clips and audio files, enhance the impact of meetings and presentations.

“At a time when businesses of all sizes are asking IT departments to do more with less, Apptix’s new Web conferencing capability reduces expensive travel and communications costs while enhancing sales and collaboration efforts,” said Rick Rumbarger, vice president of product, Apptix. “With our growing portfolio of enterprise-class solutions, small business can turn to one trusted secure vendor—Apptix—to address expanding communications and IT needs. Apptix hosted services provides businesses the flexibility to scale IT resources while eliminating expensive deployment and maintenance costs.”

Web conferencing and secure IM capabilities are delivered utilizing the Microsoft OCS messaging platform, hosted by Apptix. The solution integrates seamlessly with the native Microsoft Windows operating system and familiar Microsoft business productivity and communications applications, including Outlook. This integration enables the sharing of presence information and the initiation of a Web conference directly from an email message, a secure IM chat window, or a phone call.

Expanded Hosted Services Portfolio
Additional new Apptix products accelerate the deployment of Websites and online applications, optimizing customers’ IT capabilities, reducing costs, and providing a competitive advantage in a tough economy. New products include:

* Online Presence: Features domain registration, DNS hosting, and Website hosting capabilities. Also includes tools and flexible templates to create a professional looking Website with little or no experience, making it faster and more affordable to launch a business online.
* Virtual Private Servers: Hosted VPS optimizes computing power, and enables businesses to run and manage applications on Apptix’s infrastructure at the fraction of the cost of an in-house server.

Available through Apptix immediately, learn more about Web conferencing and other new product offerings at www.apptix.com.

The Apptix Advantage
A pioneer in the hosted services space, Apptix delivers and manages world-class communications, collaboration, and IT solutions that are reliable, relevant, easy to use and deploy, and provide high value to small and medium-sized businesses. Apptix provides daily network and applications management, including upgrades, patch uploads, and software revisions—freeing internal IT resources to focus on strategic company operations. Apptix’s services are backed by 99.99% SLA-backed uptime availability and 24/7 live US based customer support.

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About Apptix
Apptix (OSE: APP) is the leading provider of hosted email, voice, and collaboration services for small and medium-sized businesses, serving nearly 200,000 Exchange subscribers worldwide. A pioneer in the hosted services space, directly and through its MailStreet subsidiary, Apptix offers a variety of hosted communications and IT services including Microsoft Exchange; VoIP; Microsoft SharePoint; Web conferencing and secure Instant Message via Microsoft Office Communications Server; Online Backup by EMC’s Mozy; mobile messaging (including BlackBerry and iPhone); compliance and archiving; and an Online presence solution that includes domain registration, DNS hosting, and Website hosting. Apptix provides the reliability and scalability of enterprise-class communications solutions at a small business price, freeing IT staff to focus on improving and innovating within their companies. Apptix is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for Hosting and Application Services. Headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, Apptix is recognized as one of the CRN 2008 Fast Growth 100, Deloitte’s 2008 Virginia Technology Fast 50 and 2008 North American Technology Fast 500, Software Magazine’s 2008 Software500, and Washington Business Journal 2008 Fastest Growing Companies. For more information, visit www.apptix.com.