(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW)//Exchange 2010 Hosting Services — Hosted Exchange provider Intermedia (www.intermedia.net) announced on Monday it has launched the first hosted Exchange 2010 service, following the recent release of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 software.
The offering expands on its June announcement, when Intermedia became the first hosting provider to offer the beta version of Microsoft’s popular hosted service to customers and partners.
With the full release of Exchange Server 2010, Intermedia customers will now have access to a range of features such as support for BlackBerry wireless solutions and free migration from previous versions of Exchange.
Intermedia partners can also resell hosted Exchange 2010 under their own brand and will be able to offer Intermedia’s private label platform later this year.
“Intermedia was the first to market with hosted Exchange 2007 and now hosted Exchange 2010,” says Serguei Sofinski, CEO of Intermedia. “This is about more than innovation for innovation’s sake. We are serving our customers and our partners with sophisticated Fortune 500-grade systems – but in a way that is deeply practical for small- and medium-sized businesses.”
Intermedia, which currently hosts more than 225,000 premium Microsoft Exchange mailboxes, will offer hosted Exchange 2010 service with a 99.999 percent uptime service level agreement. This ensures that the customer will experience less than six minutes of downtime per year.
In addition to Exchange 2010’s new features such as personal archives and multi-mailbox search, Intermedia’s hosted Exchange 2010 service also adds its own extra features.
The hosted Exchange 2010 offering is backed Intermedia’s premium infrastructure, spanning four data centers, to protect email and speed routing, as well as includes free full-service migration, control of the Exchange environment, and support with an average hold time of less than 40 seconds via its 24-hour phone and email support.