Intermedia, the world’s largest Microsoft Exchange hosting provider, has announced a massive business push into Europe with a particular focus on the United Kingdom. It has launched an affiliate program to help complete this task. The program allows for other companies to deliver the same experience to consumers under the Intermedia brand name.

The company has also opened up a new datacentre in the UK. The datacentre is believed to be the only facility in the United Kingdom that provides hosted Exchange 2010 with clustering and redundant server infrastructure – technologies critical to the high reliability businesses expect for email service.

“UK small- and medium-sized businesses represent an important market for Intermedia,” Jonathan McCormick, COO, Intermedia, said in a statement earlier this year. “By opening this datacentre, we are able to deliver in-country hosted communications that save companies up to 90 percent versus the cost of operating the same services internally.”

“The market for hosted Exchange is continuing to grow worldwide.” says Tony Cohen, senior business development manager, Intermedia. “In Europe alone, Radicati Group is predicting the number of hosted Exchange mailboxes to increase to 28 million by 2021, an annual growth rate of 19 percent. Our affiliate program provides resellers with a proven way of tapping in to this lucrative market and generating additional revenues, bolstered by the global strength of the Intermedia brand and the reliability of our premium hosted solutions. It is particularly appealing for smaller IT resellers, as we have made it easy for them to start selling our solutions, and respond quickly to the demands of their customers.”