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Why Choose Concentric for Hosted Exchange?

Concentric delivers all of the core benefits of Microsoft Exchange, plus important differentiators:

Rock-Solid Reliability: Clustered servers housed in our state-of-the-art data center with redundant Internet connections and backup generator power.

  • Redundant, high performance architecture
  • Redundant Active Directory domain controllers
  • Multiple layers of hardened physical security
  • Redundant network backbones

Advanced Junk Mail and Virus protection: Concentric's enhanced Junk and Virus filtering protects your business from spam and malware at no additional charge. Others charge extra for a similar level of protection.

  • Self learning Concentric's propriety filtering technology is self-learning and updates itself multiple times a day
  • Superior results over the standard Microsoft Exchange's built-in filtering or "free" solutions such as SPAM Assassin.

Secure Instant Messaging: Provides secure chat capability among co-workers without the security risks of a public chat service.

  • Easily add co-workers to your contact list with a simple point-and-click interface.
  • Chat "presence" indicator and customizable status messages.

Simplified user and account management: The customer Gateway provides easy-to-use web-based administrative controls to easily manage additions, changes or updates with point-and-click simplicity. No advanced technical skills needed.

  • Detailed FAQs and implementation information
  • Outlook auto-configuration support
  • Point-and-click user administration from the customer Gateway for all hosting services

Hybrid Email allowing a combination of standard (POP3) and Exchange mailboxes on your domain.

  • Other providers either do not offer this option or charge extra for this feature.

Support and Maintenance

  • Live U.S.-based telephone and email technical support (M-F 7:00 a.m. to midnight ET ) for account administrator
  • Optional Premium support 24x7 for all users on an account

 

Competitor Comparison:

Compare Hosted Exchange Providers Concentric Typical Competitor
Email and Collaboration Included Included
Enhanced Junk Mail Filtering
Self-learning and auto updating multiple times a day		 Included Add-On - $2/user
Custom Trainable Junk Mail Filters Exclusive -
Add-On		 No
Instant Business Messaging
Secure Business Chat		 Exclusive - Included Add-On Microsoft OCS
$2.50 to $7.95/user/month
Hybrid Email
Mix Business Standard and Exchange Mailboxes		 Yes Most do not or charge an Add-On fee
US-Based Support (Standard and Premium) Yes Most do not
Clustered Redundant Infrastructure based on Microsoft HMC (designed to scale to one million mailboxes) Yes Most do not
Pooled Storage
Storage pooled accross all exchange users		 Yes Most do not

 

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