Voice Cloud Hosted PBX: the perfect system for Small and Medium sized Businesses
| Name: | EMAIL PLATFORMS OF THE PAST |
| DEPARTING: | ON-PREMISE EXCHANGE 2003/2007/2010 |
| ARRIVING: | HOSTED EXCHANGE 2013 |
| UPGRADE INCLUDES: LYNC 2013 AND SHAREPOINT 2013 | |
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2013
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SAVED
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The business world has grown astonishingly mobile since Exchange 2003 and 2007 came out. Any business still running on-premise Exchange 2003/2007 lags far behind.
This is your opportunity. Hosted Exchange 2013 lets you make your business far more mobile— harness the superior reliability and lower costs of the cloud.
Here’s how Exchange, Lync and SharePoint 2013 help your customers collaborate more effectively on any device, in any location:
Mobility
Meet your mobile productivity demands
Email, calendar, contacts: Exchange 2013
Enhance your core productivity tools
Chat: Lync 2013
Extend secure, business-grade, real-time chat
Content Management: SharePoint 2013
Enable on-the-go content access
Plus: Better reliability
The cloud improves reliability far beyond on-premise servers
Exchange, Lync and SharePoint 2013 are now available for new customer accounts.
Consider this: What would be the cost to your business if an email with sensitive client information—such as credit card numbers or health records—got into the wrong hands?
In 2010, more than 107 trillion emails (Pingdom) were sent – and this number is drastically increasing year over year. Email has become such second nature that we don’t think twice before sending our most personal information through this easy communication channel.
Most good email providers go to great lengths to protect your email in datacenters, and many companies have put good security practices into place to protect email access. But, as email travels across the Internet, it is vulnerable to data breaches, data leaks, and hackers. Rogue employees also pose risks for distributing information inappropriately.
Businesses can face litigation, fines, and loss of reputation if any personal information about their customers is exposed via email or other means. For instance, the Federal government’s HIPAA act mandates that healthcare providers secure email communication with encryption technology. Financial services firms also face regulation under the Sarbanes-Oxley act. Several states, including California and Massachusetts, have passed their own legislation requiring email encryption.
Yet, even now, many businesses have no email encryption technology in place. One data breach can jeopardize the trusted relationship you have with your customers. Unfortunately, many businesses are unaware that the problem can be solved with simple controls over the communications coming and going from their company – anything from bad language to confidential information.
The average cost of a data breach incident for U.S. organizations in 2011 was $5.5 million and $194 per record. No matter the size of your business, your company may be held financially responsible in the event of a data loss. Many companies look to do the bare minimum to protect themselves, but this leaves the business and all of its data vulnerable. Encryption adds an additional layer of protection on top of your regular email security that any business dealing with personal and confidential information needs to have. By encrypting your email, it makes the information virtually unreadable as it travels across the Internet, thus protecting private information about you and your customers.
Savings are not just accrued in avoiding penalties and fines. A study from Thomson Reuters found that 71 percent of global compliance professionals foresaw that an increase in time and resources would be required to work with regulators and exchanges to ensure they would be ready and prepared to meet rising compliance requirements. Up-front investment in encryption will assure safety and can save small businesses from having to put personnel resources toward fixing the problem once it occurs.
It’s important to note that emails do not often end at the original destination. If you forward information about an employee’s medical condition to your HR manager, he or she may need to forward that on to your corporate lawyer and your health insurance provider. Now information that was originally traded internally has moved outside your network and can continue to move without your knowledge. Yet, your company is still responsible for controlling the dissemination of that information.
Not only can email encryption protect against poaching of confidential information, but IT managers can also set in place rules to automatically flag and review all outbound emails before they leave the internal network. This prevents sensitive information or even email with profanity from leaving your company.
Now that you have the background, you still might be asking yourself, how do I know if my business really needs encryption? A good rule of thumb is to consider an encryption solution if you answer yes to one or both of these questions:
If you answered yes to either of these questions, it is time to start the encryption discussion with your email provider. By taking this step now, you could be saving a lot of time and money later.
There’s a lot at stake for businesses that are not compliant with federal and industry regulations regarding email encryption, including litigation, fines, and loss of reputation in the event of a data breach. While many states and industries have passed laws holding businesses financially responsible in the case of a leak, email encryption still remains an afterthought. Businesses need control of the communications that are coming and going from their company, from foul language to confidential material. SMBs should consider the potential costs they could face and the security their email services have to offer. Talk to your email provider about its email encryption today.
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Exchange, Lync, SharePoint 2013 from Critical Consulting LLC
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When looking to implement or outsource your servers, there are several key factors to consider. Is the service reliable? Are there engineers on standby 24×7 in case a server goes down? Does the service offer the full benefits?
Our service operates out of a tier-four datacenter, with state-of-the-art cooling, power supply, backup generator and fire suppressants. For you this means that your email is constantly running. Your service will run on clustered servers and an EMC storage area network – so if one server or disk drive stops working, your service keeps working.
As well as offering the highest-quality IT infrastructure, we do nightly backups to protect your data.
To further ensure reliability, we employ a team of Microsoft engineers and administrators 24/7. So if a server problem occurs at 3am on a Sunday morning, we will be there to solve it – in a matter of minutes. This same team installs Microsoft software patches immediately, as well as anti-virus and anti-spam updates, for full protection.
One of the world’s most advanced infrastructures:
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The business impact of a service outage or the loss of years’ worth of critical data is incalculable. It is not surprising that service level agreements have become a critical aspect of the Exchange provider selection process. While every provider can talk the talk, the reality is that uptime and data replication is only as good as a provider’s infrastructure and experience.
At Critical Consulting, the premium infrastructure behind our solutions is built on more than a 10 years of Exchange hosting experience. This enables us to offer a 99.999 percent uptime SLA – that’s less than six minutes of downtime per year. To ensure we consistently meet or exceed the service expectations of our users, we never stop investing in infrastructure. Let’s take a closer look at how Critical Consulting’s infrastructure distinguishes us from other hosted Exchange providers.
Critical Consulting’s multiple datacenters are some of the world’s few tier-4 datacenters.
Critical Consulting uses ultra-robust premium facilities to minimize email downtime. The tier-4 category is for facilities “fundamentally immune to planned and unplanned downtime,” according to the Uptime Institute.
Critical Consulting has invested thousands of dollars in its infrastructure, which includes premium Dell servers.
Critical Consulting uses only the best in hardware, including EMC for the most advanced in storage.
Critical Consulting’s, super-premium infrastructure ensures our commitment to reliability is rocksolid. Key features include:
Data replication: In addition to running regular backups, Critical Consulting replicates Exchange 2010 data in real time from one set of premium hardware to another. This protects the critical information your business keeps within Exchange, even in the event of hardware failure or database corruption. It also enables Critical Consulting to rapidly restore the full functionality of your Exchange environment should an issue occur.
Multiple premium datacenters: Critical Consulting operates four premium datacenters in the US, each serviced by multiple Tier-1 Internet providers, including Sprint, Level 3, UUnet (Verizon Business) and Global Crossing. This not only ensures optimal routing to client end points, it enables us to dynamically route around Internet service availability issues.
‘Choose your datacenter’ option: Do you need to support a distributed work force with hosted Exchange services? Critical Consulting lets you choose the datacenter closest to your individual users to ensure your data travels the shortest, fastest route possible.
Multi-million dollar, continually upgraded hardware: Best-in-class servers, storage and network hardware from Dell, EMC and Cisco are the cornerstone of our infrastructure. For example, each datacenter operates redundant Cisco carrier class switches with firewall and load balancing modules. Built for availability and throughput, this flagship technology virtually eliminates disconnects due to server availability or network issues.
A premium network from Cisco and other leading vendors ensures the highest possible reliability.
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