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Rackspace Hosting Updates Rackspace Hybrid Email for 1.7 Million Users
Colocation Sites and Top Server Colocation ProvidersHigh-density colocation data centers. Be sure that you pick a colocation site that has fully redundant power. Find secure, reliable co-location services to house and manage your servers and web presence. Choose dedicated servers, or rent rackspace for your own servers. Highly-available colocation facilities with security and virtual 24x7 uptime. Sources for server colocation, disaster recovery facilities, and managed network solutions can be found here. You maintain control over your web servers. Secure data centers offer dedicated server solutions in which the service provider monitors your servers continuously. There are Unmetered Bandwidth and Metered Bandwidth Options. Co-location, collocation, and colo are other terms for these services. Using a colocation site for your critical servers saves some of the overhead involved in maintaining a company's own data center. Colocation service providers offer a wide range of data center management options. Whether dedicated server hosting is needed, or if your company-owned servers are housed at the colocation provider's site, the colocation facility may allow you to manage virtually all of the server functions by remote control, including remote re-boot. Or, you may choose options in which the co-location hosting company is responsible for maintenance, patching and backups. Uxbridge, Middlesex (PRWEB) June 26, 2010 -- Rackspace Hosting (NYSE: RAX), the world leader in the hosting and cloud computing industry, has enhanced its popular Rackspace Hybrid Email offering - a custom mix of Hosted Microsoft Exchange and the business-focused Rackspace Email platform on a single domain. Rackspace Hybrid Email now features easy calendar viewing between Hosted Microsoft Exchange and Rackspace Email, as well as a faster webmail design for Rackspace Email to make businesses using Rackspace Hybrid Email even more productive.
"We've learned from our customers that, on average, only a small percentage of employees really need and use the advanced features of Microsoft Exchange, yet many businesses are paying a lot more to run Exchange for every single user," said Kirk Averett, director of product for cloud applications at Rackspace. "With Rackspace Hybrid Email, companies can purchase a combination of Exchange and low cost Rackspace Email accounts on a single domain, without sacrificing features for any employee. Most businesses can realise a significant cost savings by utilising this model because they have different types of email users."
Rackspace Hybrid Email has been a key attraction for Rackspace solution partners and resellers because it provides another unique selling point, in addition to Rackspace's Fanatical Support. Businesses can reduce total costs by substituting even one Exchange user with Rackspace Email. For example, using an average 80/20 ratio of Rackspace Email to Hosted Exchange, businesses can save more than 60 percent on email with Rackspace Hybrid Email compared to Hosted Exchange alone, and significantly more than hosting their own email in-house.
With the recent updates, Rackspace Hybrid Email now features:
- Viewable Calendars - Now users can share and view calendars across the entire organisation, whether it's an Exchange user or a Rackspace Email user, for easier scheduling and coordination. - Improved Webmail - The new webmail interface for Rackspace Email is easy to learn and faster to navigate. New features include improved search quality and speed, and simplified customisation of company logos and background images for private label resellers. - Simple Control Panel - Administrators can easily manage Hosted Exchange and Rackspace Email accounts and settings from one dashboard. - Microsoft SharePoint - All Rackspace cloud email accounts have access to free hosted SharePoint, with up to 250MB of storage, for improved document management and team collaboration. More storage is easily purchased with low utility pricing. - Compatibility - Both Hosted Exchange and Rackspace Email are compatible with the Microsoft Outlook desktop client, and provide mobile support for Blackberry, iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows Mobile. About Rackspace Hosting UK (http://www.rackspace.co.uk/rackspace-home/ ) Rackspace Hosting is the world's leader in the hosting and cloud computing industry and has been ranked in Financial Times Top 50 Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom for the past six years. Rackspace provides its customers with Fanatical Support by delivering a portfolio of hosted IT services, including dedicated servers (http://www.rackspace.co.uk/managed-hosting/hosting-solutions/dedicated-servers/ ), managed hosting (http://www.rackspace.co.uk/managed-hosting/ ), cloud hosting (http://www.rackspace.co.uk/cloud-hosting/ ) and email and apps.
Rackspace data centres (http://www.rackspace.co.uk/managed-hosting/hosting-solutions/managed-hosting/data-centre-facilities/ ) offer a full suite of cloud computing applications including email, collaboration and storage solutions. Rackspace hosts more than 1.7 million paid email accounts through its email platform that includes Rackspace Email, Hosted Microsoft Exchange and a hybrid offering of the two services, all backed by Rackspace's 24x7 Fanatical Support and a hosting guide to help chose the right hosting solution.
Rackspace Hosting PR contact: Brooke Hamilton Rackspace Hosting 4 The Square Stockley Park Uxbridge UB11 1BA +442087342574
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Factors to consider:
1. Do you need a carrier-neutral colocation facility? This means, usually, that the site uses multiple bandwidth providers, and that your company may choose its preferred provider from among several options. Ask, though, if they accept any commissions from bandwidth providers.
2. Power protected colo facility: the extent of power protection may vary between co-location services. The number and capacity of UPS units and generators is key. Are there redundant generators?
3. A range, from secure metal cages to which your key employees have access 24x7, to locked cabinets containing your colocated servers, down to partial cabinets or just one or two rack units ( 1u or 2 u ) should be available.
4. Tape backup services and other hosting services are available from colo providers, pricing may vary significantly.
5. Does the colocation company host both telecommunications and ISP's? Learn whether they have a diversity of clients for their managed hosting services. 6. Ownership. You can usually choose between a dedicated server setup, in which the hosting company owns the hardware, or an arrangement where you own the servers. The advantages of colocation mean that bandwidth comes alot cheaper than what you may be able to negotiate on your own. The colo service basically supplies the bandwidth, the IP, and power to your server, and the data center in which it's housed. The contract that you sign with the colocation hosting service should allow for easy upgrades. Your business may expand to require more e-commerce servers. Server operating systems may become outdated. You may need to upgrade your Oracle or SQL Server database version. A "U" is a Rack Unit, a measurement of the vertical space that your server occupies within a rack. One 'U' generally equals 1.75 inches, or about 4.45cm. A full rack may have 40 to 42 U's. The minimum rack space you can rent for your colocated server is generally 1U. The amount of data transfer that you contract for is measuted in price per gigabytes of transfer per month. The colocation service may monitor your servers for any or all of the following, which may be priced separately, or included in your colocation plan: Ping Tests Disk Space Checks Check IIS, Mail, and other services, and restart automatically on failure.. CPU Usage Memory Usage HTTP Availability |
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