May 19, 2009 - (HOSTSEARCH.COM) -
NaviSite (NASDAQ: NAVI), a leading provider of Enterprise Hosting and Application Services, today announced that it has expanded its suite of Business Email Services powered by Microsoft Exchange Server. These enhanced services have been designed to provide the SMB audience with the reliability, flexibility and mobility that are essential for success in today’s business climate.
NaviSite is one of the leading hosted email service providers and has a long history of providing hosted email services on the Microsoft Exchange Platform. It currently hosts over 450,000 business mailboxes for companies around the world. With a customer base that spans the small home office to the multi-location global enterprise, NaviSite provides businesses with deep expertise in hosting and managing all aspects of business information technology infrastructure including managing their business-critical email communications and office collaboration through various email hosting solutions.
One of the key highlights of NaviSite’s Business Email Services is an industry leading 100% uptime for email availability. This standardized email offering also includes larger mailboxes and a suite of complementary services, like broader wireless connectivity and email archiving features, enabling the small business to effectively communicate with full synchronization of email, contacts, and calendars between the web and desktop clients like Microsoft Outlook and Entourage. In addition, businesses are able to synchronize the same data with mobile devices like the iPhone, BlackBerry, and Windows Mobile powered devices, getting anytime-anywhere access. With NaviSite’s Business Email Services, small businesses have access to a level of technology once reserved for much larger companies.
“Offloading technology operations to a hosting provider can significantly reduce an SMB's infrastructure costs, while delivering 'on-demand' communication solutions." said Maurene Caplan Grey, Founder, Principal Analyst, Grey Consulting, a leading messaging analyst and research firm. "This will continue to be increasingly relevant in the current economy when the competition is fierce across the SMB segment and email, along with other communication technologies, is a cornerstone in driving business sustainability."
“Small business owners realize that Microsoft Exchange and its collaboration, mobility, and world-class infrastructure is an essential piece of technology that is too complicated to run in-house,” said Sumeet Sabharwal, SVP Dedicated Hosting, NaviSite “NaviSite is responding to the need of the SMB market for a business-grade email service to facilitate employee communication and productivity without spending precious capital and resources to deploy the complex Microsoft Exchange infrastructure.”
NaviSite’s ‘Business Email Service’ bundles Outlook 2007 and Entourage 2008 desktop software, Postini Anti-Spam and ActiveSync for easy instant email access on Windows Mobile, Apple iPhone, Nokia mobile devices. It also includes a free Microsoft Windows SharePoint collaboration website, which can serve as intranet, file server or collaboration server for small businesses. NaviSite also caters to business email needs of medium and larger companies with customizable messaging solutions based on Dedicated or Enterprise Microsoft Exchange offerings.
NaviSite is a leading provider of enterprise hosting and application solutions. It provides customized and scalable solutions leveraging its industry leading hosting and enterprise cloud infrastructure, and custom and packaged application life cycle management expertise. Over 1,500 customers depend on NaviSite for managed application services, application development, implementation and management on its web infrastructure platforms in fifteen state-of-the-art data centers supported by approximately 650 professionals. For more information visit www.navisite.com.
NaviSite Dedicated Hosting Business focuses on providing hosting solutions to small and mid-sized businesses leveraging NaviSite expertise in serving its Enterprise customers. The solutions include powerful dedicated servers and virtual servers optimized for the needs and budget of SMBs, which provide enterprise grade security and greater visibility into the health and performance of servers, with the advanced NaviView control panel. NaviSite’s dedicated hosting solutions are easily configured and ordered through NaviSite’s dedicated hosting portal.
