There are many options to meet business email needs and the most often asked question is what suits your business best. If you are looking for hosted Exchange and a few other Microsoft platforms, then you are in the right place. Let’s illustrate some clear benefits of using Hosted Exchange as opposed to some of the other solutions available in the market today.

As many businesses continue to embrace cloud computing in general and hosted virtual desktop in specific, the traditional computing model is fast disappearing. Given this furious growth of the cloud delivery model hosted Exchange has become attractive to small business users primarily due to affordability and the feature set it boasts of.

As it is with any deal you can find on the market today, there is a standard package for the hosted Exchange, but there are a few other services you can include for an additional fee. One of the first things you need to consider it that the application will be branded to your domain name and thus you will have easier access to it wherever you are.

The mailbox of any user needs to be very large in order to store all the data they will receive and a 25 GB space the hosted Exchange is able to offer is more than enough. But all the content they get needs to be kept safe, so this is why you can also rely on advanced anti-virus and anti-spam filters that could be included in the deal.

Not all people use Microsoft software in order to connect to the web and this is why you need to be sure that the hosted Exchange application can be synced to other devices that use Android or even to an iPad or iPhone. Thus you will be sure that all the people who need to check out the calendar, contacts and tasks will have access to them.

Some distinct advantages of Hosted Exchange over the Google Apps’ Gmail are

1/ File level manipulation of messages – Outlook messages can be attached to other emails, put in folders, copied to desktop, cut and pasted, etc. Gmail items are not files, so there is no item level control.
2/ Unified & Multiple Views – Gmail has only a conversation view for mail. Outlook has multiple views including Auto Preview. Outlook also provides one unified view of all user data (email, calendar, etc.)
3/ Right Click & Multiple Select - In Gmail, simple actions, like “mark as unread,” require extra clicks and user actions because of the use of check boxes and buttons, decreasing user productivity. Much more difficult with a large number of items.
4/ Email Rights Management for Security - Secure and controlled distribution of e-mail (such as limiting forwarding, preventing saving, and requiring expiration) is not supported in Gmail
5/ Cleanup - Outlook 2010 offers advanced and automated capabilities to clean up the user’s e-mail account, such as Auto Archive, and Mail Cleanup.
6/ Social Connector - Outlook 2010 shows communication history, status updates, and social networking service updates from LinkedIn and Microsoft Windows Live, in people-centric views.
7/ Unified Communication (voice mail, SMS/text, instant messaging, RSS feeds, etc.) - Google offers no inbox management of communication other than e-mail.

There are a few other things that come as standard, but if you want to know what other things you can include in the Exchange application on a hosted virtual desktop, you need to think of the safety of your data. So if you want to encrypt any message you send or receive so you can be sure no one will see it, then this is an option you can use.

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