RapidScale is an industry-leading company in the delivery, design, and support of Microsoft Exchange. Our Service Level Agreement on CloudMail is 100% uptime and all support is U.S. based as we take pride in providing world-class service.
Microsoft Exchange introduces built-in integrated email archiving, retention, and discovery capabilities that save costs and simplify the process of preserving business communications. RapidScale’s Hosted Exchange solution delivers on the capabilities demanded by mobile workforces. Access your business email, calendar and contacts on your desktop, laptop, smartphone, and Web browser so it can always go where you go. With Exchange, you will remain in control of your solution by tailoring it to your specific needs and ensuring that your communications are always available.
Microsoft Exchange 2010 combines built in anti-spam and encryption technologies with an advanced anti-virus infrastructure for efficient management of a wide range of security threats. You will see a high standard of physical and digital security for your data as it receives reliable monitoring and support from our team.
We guarantee 24x7x365 uptime and provide 100% US-based support to our clients. Our Cloud Engineers and Sr. Cloud Consultants are all internal employees and are dedicated to providing you with first-class support. You will have a dedicated Sr. Cloud Consultant to oversee your account specifically and assist with the transition.
Outlook Web App in Microsoft Exchange helps users be more efficient and productive across platforms and locations by giving them access to email, voice mail, instant messaging, SMS text messages, and more inside all popular browsers. Reduce complexity for your users and instead, offer secure access for multiple approved applications.
Our pay-as-you go plan is affordable and will help to remove the budgeting burden as well as hardware acquisition costs. Benefit from the latest version of Microsoft Exchange, and receive the latest software and security updates. With CloudMail, you will save short- and long-term costs while receiving superior support. This is how RapidScale’s CloudMail differs from its competitors.
While email is critical to your business, managing your Exchange server in-house can be expensive, time consuming, and full of hassles. Working with an external service provider can help you eliminate those headaches and take advantage of the full functionality of your Microsoft Hosted Exchange server.
Our CloudMail product set is built on our high performance fully redundant physical hardware platform just like the rest of our products sets. Uniformity between hardware and data centers ensures consistency across the board, eliminating the possibility of asymmetrical performance and simplifying diagnostics. For storage, we run NetApp controllers and storage shelves, Cisco UCS blade chassis for compute, and Cisco Nexus routers for core routing.
CloudApps is the next generation application purchasing and licensing management
platform for business. CloudApps connects businesses with the applications they want
while eliminating licensing management and application upgrades.
With RapidScale's CloudApps we can implement, manage and support almost any business application in our cloud. This is a growing trend and a proven ROI for businesses looking to stay compliant and up today on their business applications.
Let RapidScale’s CloudIntelligence team to design the right application business flow for your business. Today we offer some of the most commonly used business applications like QuickBooks, Microsoft Office, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Visio, Google Chrome and many more commonly used business applications.
RapidScale, a cloud services innovator, delivers world-class, secure, and reliable cloud computing solutions to companies of all sizes across the globe. Its state-of-the-art CloudOffice platform and market leading cloud solutions are the reason why RapidScale is the provider of choice for leading telecommunications providers, VARs, MSPs, and agents throughout the United States. RapidScale is not only delivering a service, but is also innovating advanced solutions and applications for the cloud computing space. Today, many of the top carriers, VARs, MSPs, and Master Agents across the globe are selling RapidScale’s cloud solutions to their customers. RapidScale’s market leading solutions include: CloudServer, CloudDesktop, CloudOffice, CloudMail, CloudRecovery, CloudApps, and more. For more information on RapidScale visit www.rapidscale.net.
Your servers, our Cloud, the best service in the industry. RapidScale gives you on-demand capacity with the best infrastructure tools and utilities in the industry.
The goal of CloudServer is to provide a flexible, standardized and virtualized operating environment that allows applications to perform at their peak without downtime. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) abstracts hardware (server, storage and network infrastructure) into a pool of computing, storage and connectivity capabilities that are delivered as services for a usage-based (metered) cost. Leveraging our infrastructure allows you to operate like an enterprise-level organization, no matter what size you are.
With CloudServer, you will also receive the benefits of Disaster Recovery. There are a myriad of ways to lose equipment and data, whether it is fire, theft or malfunctioning sprinklers. RapidScale’s CloudServer houses your data in secure Tier 3, Class 1 data centers that are mirrored and securely backed up. This gives your services the ability to be quickly back on-line and running smoothly in the event of a disaster. Our infrastructure resides in multiple data centers so clients can be assured that their business critical applications and data will be fully redundant in a different data center, making it easier to resume business as usual.
CloudServer has a pay-as-you-go model which allows you to scale up or down depending on your needs. Quickly seize new opportunities and get projects up and running with the scalability of our solution. When it comes to pricey hardware, you can save a lot by using our infrastructure and buying only what you use. With IaaS, eliminate the many negative aspects of IT expansion, especially issues with in-house infrastructure, while still receiving the processing power and storage space that you need to run.
CloudServer is based off of enterprise-class infrastructure at a fraction of the costs with 24x7x365 friendly and reliable support. We care about your business’ uptime objectives and security, which is why RapidScale has worked hard to become a leader in CloudServer. With your applications built into a private cloud environment that includes encryption, firewalls and advanced around-the-clock monitoring, they will remain safe and secure. Operate worry-free, knowing that you always have RapidScale’s support.
With your infrastructure hosted off-site, you free up your IT staff to focus on value-added tasks, such as planning and development, instead of running around patching machines and fixing bugs. Reduce risk, eliminate headaches and save money with CloudServer.
RapidScale's CloudRecovery service is about planning and designing your business’ Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) around each application. We provide cost effective high density and low density storage and complete Disaster Recovery as a Service solutions for automatic failover.
Disaster Recovery as a Service works by first securely safeguarding your data in our Cloud. Our recovery and de-duplication testing allows us to have the fastest Recovery Time Objective (RTO) in the industry, Our Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity solutions will secure your business data and ensure minimal downtime in the event of a disaster. Keep your business applications and data safe and accessible at all times with RapidScale's CloudRecovery.
RapidScale's Tier 3, Class 1 data centers feature on-premises security guards, an exterior security system, biometric systems, and continuous digital surveillance and recording. We meet and exceed standards such as HIPAA, PCI compliance, and the majority of other government security standards.
Replication to cloud virtual machines can be used to protect both cloud and on-premises production instances. In other words, replication is suitable for both cloud-VM-to-cloud-VM and on-premises-to-cloud-VM data protection. For applications that require aggressive RTO and recovery point objectives (RPOs), as well as application awareness, replication is the data movement option of choice.
Traditional disaster recovery solutions are expensive and inefficient. With the lowest total cost of ownership in the industry, you do not need to let a low budget get in the way of safeguarding and recovering your data. You do not have to be an enterprise-size business to receive the cloud’s protection effectively.
RapidScale helps to eliminate upfront costs while saving money on pricey equipment and maintenance with CloudRecovery. With our pay-as-you-go plan, pay for what you use and experience a service that is scalable according to your needs.
RapidScale's CloudIntelligence team will listen to your business needs and design the right Disaster Recovery as a Service plan for your business. RapidScale offers a 100% uptime guarantee.
Our Cloud Recovery product set is backed by one of the most advanced Storage Area Network systems in the industry, NetApp. With its own proprietary file system and fiber channel network, our SAN’s offer some of the best performance and redundancy available. Our RAID configurations ensure a fault tolerance of no less than two disks which offers one of the highest levels of availability while still offering blazing performance. After failing over to the cloud, you will wonder why you hadn't migrated sooner.
RapidScale, a managed cloud services provider, delivers world-class, secure, and reliable cloud computing solutions to companies of all sizes across the globe. Its state-of-the-art managed CloudDesktop platform and market-leading cloud solutions are the reasons why RapidScale is the provider of choice for leading MSOs, VARs, MSPs, Carriers and Master Agents throughout the United States. RapidScale is not only delivering a service but also innovating advancored solutions and applications for the cloud computing space. RapidScale’s innovative solutions include CloudServer, CloudDesktop, CloudOffice, CloudMail, CloudRecovery, CloudApps, and more. For more information on RapidScale, visit www.rapidscale.net.
CloudOffice is a secure all-in-one solution set combining RapidScale’s four core products and services: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS), Desktop as a Service (DaaS), and Hosted Microsoft Exchange.
We can package your business applications and add them to your CloudOffice. Your employees will be working in an enterprise-grade environment that is controlled and monitored 24x7x365. Additionally, all your data will be backed up in the cloud securely. With RapidScale's CloudOffice, you will have solutions that support collaboration and mobile workforces from any device, with any app, anywhere. It is the future of IT.
Microsoft Office 2010 offers flexible and powerful new ways to deliver your best work - at the office, at home, or at school.
Hosted Exchange enables you to communicate using business-grade email while eliminating the need to upgrade and maintain a physical Exchange server. Archiving and encryption services are available for compliance and security purposes. Tailor your solutions based on your unique needs and ensure that your communications are always available. You remain in control.
Unlike many competitive products, CloudOffice was built on a multi-tenanted Geo Load Balanced Active/Active architecture. This unique design offers several benefits to its end users but most importantly means that customers’ virtual environments are built redundantly upon one another creating the ultimate design in Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity.
RapidScale's consistent hardware refresh cycles ensure that customers’ applications are running on reliable maintained equipment at all times. Services are built in geographically redundant data centers, so if a primary site goes offline, the secondary site will initiate and users will be routed to that site. CloudOffice is a reliable and secure way to store data and clients will experience the latest technology with exceptional data protection.
RapidScale's CloudOffice product replaces a client’s physical IT infrastructure by moving all the customer applications to the Cloud. This eliminates the need for the client’s IT team to maintain and support the physical hardware. This will also minimize the workload on the customer’s finance department regarding the procurement of IT hardware and associated maintenance contracts.
At the infrastructure level, CloudOffice is fully backed by Active Directory architecture to simplify the deployment of user accounts. With our front-end control panel, even non-technical clerical and HR workers have the ability to easily spin up user accounts and provision users with a Desktop, Mailbox, Applications, and File Permissions in one fluid and smooth process using a “next, next, finish” procedure. Built on the same technology as our CloudDesktop platform, rich HD graphics and a seamless end user experience are just a few of the front facing benefits of our CloudOffice product offering.
RapidScale recognizes the need for compliance with the various laws and regulations across different industries. We have established our data encryption, protocols, and procedures to follow the top compliances and ensure that customer data remains secure and confidential.
January 2015 Webinar - Wins and Successes from 2014RapidScale
RapidScale shares some of its biggest cloud wins and successes from 2014. RapidScale identifies the core problems and presents a solution to see winning business results for businesses.
CloudApps is the next generation application purchasing and licensing management
platform for business. CloudApps connects businesses with the applications they want
while eliminating licensing management and application upgrades.
With RapidScale's CloudApps we can implement, manage and support almost any business application in our cloud. This is a growing trend and a proven ROI for businesses looking to stay compliant and up today on their business applications.
Let RapidScale’s CloudIntelligence team to design the right application business flow for your business. Today we offer some of the most commonly used business applications like QuickBooks, Microsoft Office, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Visio, Google Chrome and many more commonly used business applications.
RapidScale, a cloud services innovator, delivers world-class, secure, and reliable cloud computing solutions to companies of all sizes across the globe. Its state-of-the-art CloudOffice platform and market leading cloud solutions are the reason why RapidScale is the provider of choice for leading telecommunications providers, VARs, MSPs, and agents throughout the United States. RapidScale is not only delivering a service, but is also innovating advanced solutions and applications for the cloud computing space. Today, many of the top carriers, VARs, MSPs, and Master Agents across the globe are selling RapidScale’s cloud solutions to their customers. RapidScale’s market leading solutions include: CloudServer, CloudDesktop, CloudOffice, CloudMail, CloudRecovery, CloudApps, and more. For more information on RapidScale visit www.rapidscale.net.
Your servers, our Cloud, the best service in the industry. RapidScale gives you on-demand capacity with the best infrastructure tools and utilities in the industry.
The goal of CloudServer is to provide a flexible, standardized and virtualized operating environment that allows applications to perform at their peak without downtime. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) abstracts hardware (server, storage and network infrastructure) into a pool of computing, storage and connectivity capabilities that are delivered as services for a usage-based (metered) cost. Leveraging our infrastructure allows you to operate like an enterprise-level organization, no matter what size you are.
With CloudServer, you will also receive the benefits of Disaster Recovery. There are a myriad of ways to lose equipment and data, whether it is fire, theft or malfunctioning sprinklers. RapidScale’s CloudServer houses your data in secure Tier 3, Class 1 data centers that are mirrored and securely backed up. This gives your services the ability to be quickly back on-line and running smoothly in the event of a disaster. Our infrastructure resides in multiple data centers so clients can be assured that their business critical applications and data will be fully redundant in a different data center, making it easier to resume business as usual.
CloudServer has a pay-as-you-go model which allows you to scale up or down depending on your needs. Quickly seize new opportunities and get projects up and running with the scalability of our solution. When it comes to pricey hardware, you can save a lot by using our infrastructure and buying only what you use. With IaaS, eliminate the many negative aspects of IT expansion, especially issues with in-house infrastructure, while still receiving the processing power and storage space that you need to run.
CloudServer is based off of enterprise-class infrastructure at a fraction of the costs with 24x7x365 friendly and reliable support. We care about your business’ uptime objectives and security, which is why RapidScale has worked hard to become a leader in CloudServer. With your applications built into a private cloud environment that includes encryption, firewalls and advanced around-the-clock monitoring, they will remain safe and secure. Operate worry-free, knowing that you always have RapidScale’s support.
With your infrastructure hosted off-site, you free up your IT staff to focus on value-added tasks, such as planning and development, instead of running around patching machines and fixing bugs. Reduce risk, eliminate headaches and save money with CloudServer.
RapidScale's CloudRecovery service is about planning and designing your business’ Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) around each application. We provide cost effective high density and low density storage and complete Disaster Recovery as a Service solutions for automatic failover.
Disaster Recovery as a Service works by first securely safeguarding your data in our Cloud. Our recovery and de-duplication testing allows us to have the fastest Recovery Time Objective (RTO) in the industry, Our Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity solutions will secure your business data and ensure minimal downtime in the event of a disaster. Keep your business applications and data safe and accessible at all times with RapidScale's CloudRecovery.
RapidScale's Tier 3, Class 1 data centers feature on-premises security guards, an exterior security system, biometric systems, and continuous digital surveillance and recording. We meet and exceed standards such as HIPAA, PCI compliance, and the majority of other government security standards.
Replication to cloud virtual machines can be used to protect both cloud and on-premises production instances. In other words, replication is suitable for both cloud-VM-to-cloud-VM and on-premises-to-cloud-VM data protection. For applications that require aggressive RTO and recovery point objectives (RPOs), as well as application awareness, replication is the data movement option of choice.
Traditional disaster recovery solutions are expensive and inefficient. With the lowest total cost of ownership in the industry, you do not need to let a low budget get in the way of safeguarding and recovering your data. You do not have to be an enterprise-size business to receive the cloud’s protection effectively.
RapidScale helps to eliminate upfront costs while saving money on pricey equipment and maintenance with CloudRecovery. With our pay-as-you-go plan, pay for what you use and experience a service that is scalable according to your needs.
RapidScale's CloudIntelligence team will listen to your business needs and design the right Disaster Recovery as a Service plan for your business. RapidScale offers a 100% uptime guarantee.
Our Cloud Recovery product set is backed by one of the most advanced Storage Area Network systems in the industry, NetApp. With its own proprietary file system and fiber channel network, our SAN’s offer some of the best performance and redundancy available. Our RAID configurations ensure a fault tolerance of no less than two disks which offers one of the highest levels of availability while still offering blazing performance. After failing over to the cloud, you will wonder why you hadn't migrated sooner.
RapidScale, a managed cloud services provider, delivers world-class, secure, and reliable cloud computing solutions to companies of all sizes across the globe. Its state-of-the-art managed CloudDesktop platform and market-leading cloud solutions are the reasons why RapidScale is the provider of choice for leading MSOs, VARs, MSPs, Carriers and Master Agents throughout the United States. RapidScale is not only delivering a service but also innovating advancored solutions and applications for the cloud computing space. RapidScale’s innovative solutions include CloudServer, CloudDesktop, CloudOffice, CloudMail, CloudRecovery, CloudApps, and more. For more information on RapidScale, visit www.rapidscale.net.
CloudOffice is a secure all-in-one solution set combining RapidScale’s four core products and services: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS), Desktop as a Service (DaaS), and Hosted Microsoft Exchange.
We can package your business applications and add them to your CloudOffice. Your employees will be working in an enterprise-grade environment that is controlled and monitored 24x7x365. Additionally, all your data will be backed up in the cloud securely. With RapidScale's CloudOffice, you will have solutions that support collaboration and mobile workforces from any device, with any app, anywhere. It is the future of IT.
Microsoft Office 2010 offers flexible and powerful new ways to deliver your best work - at the office, at home, or at school.
Hosted Exchange enables you to communicate using business-grade email while eliminating the need to upgrade and maintain a physical Exchange server. Archiving and encryption services are available for compliance and security purposes. Tailor your solutions based on your unique needs and ensure that your communications are always available. You remain in control.
Unlike many competitive products, CloudOffice was built on a multi-tenanted Geo Load Balanced Active/Active architecture. This unique design offers several benefits to its end users but most importantly means that customers’ virtual environments are built redundantly upon one another creating the ultimate design in Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity.
RapidScale's consistent hardware refresh cycles ensure that customers’ applications are running on reliable maintained equipment at all times. Services are built in geographically redundant data centers, so if a primary site goes offline, the secondary site will initiate and users will be routed to that site. CloudOffice is a reliable and secure way to store data and clients will experience the latest technology with exceptional data protection.
RapidScale's CloudOffice product replaces a client’s physical IT infrastructure by moving all the customer applications to the Cloud. This eliminates the need for the client’s IT team to maintain and support the physical hardware. This will also minimize the workload on the customer’s finance department regarding the procurement of IT hardware and associated maintenance contracts.
At the infrastructure level, CloudOffice is fully backed by Active Directory architecture to simplify the deployment of user accounts. With our front-end control panel, even non-technical clerical and HR workers have the ability to easily spin up user accounts and provision users with a Desktop, Mailbox, Applications, and File Permissions in one fluid and smooth process using a “next, next, finish” procedure. Built on the same technology as our CloudDesktop platform, rich HD graphics and a seamless end user experience are just a few of the front facing benefits of our CloudOffice product offering.
RapidScale recognizes the need for compliance with the various laws and regulations across different industries. We have established our data encryption, protocols, and procedures to follow the top compliances and ensure that customer data remains secure and confidential.
January 2015 Webinar - Wins and Successes from 2014RapidScale
RapidScale shares some of its biggest cloud wins and successes from 2014. RapidScale identifies the core problems and presents a solution to see winning business results for businesses.
CloudDiscovery allows users to get a full assessment of their current infrastructure and the data needed to achieve a successful migration to the cloud. It provides a user-friendly interface that lays out the configuration, desktop use information, and compute information within their network.
Multitenant, Dedicated or Hybrid - Which cloud to choose?RapidScale
With the increased consideration of the cloud, many organizations are deciding how to best integrate it into their business.
There are three main forms of cloud computing: public, private and hybrid. When considering the move, you shouldn’t just pick one of these at random. The choice should be strategic, based on the characteristics of your business. Each cloud model is best suited for certain types of organizations and needs, so picking the wrong one could backfire.
Scalability is one of the most popular and beneficial features of cloud computing.
When you move scaling into the cloud, you experience an enormous amount of flexibility that saves both money and time. When demand changes based on season, projects or growth, it’s easy to accommodate the new load. As things level out again, you can scale down accordingly.
Learn about the different types of scaling in the cloud.
Make from your it department a competitive differentiator for your businessMarcos Quezada
IBM Systems, combining the strengths of IBM middleware and IBM hardware to create a resilient, modern enterprise infrastructure to make from your IT department a competitive differentiator for your business. Infrastructure Matters #ITMatters
Are your backups are too big, and do they take too long? Are you worried you won’t get all of your data back? Do you waste hours managing complicated, temperamental backup implementations? Join is as we discuss innovative ways to improve your backups, make them more predictable, shrink backup windows, over-perform on SLAs, and reliably recover your data—every time, on time. Hear how other organizations are developing smarter backup strategies that align their recovery requirements to their business objectives, reduce stored data by up to 95% while boosting backup speeds as much as 200%.
Who Is Really Responsible: Public Cloud Misperceptions and the Need for Multi...Veritas Technologies LLC
Misperceptions around data ownership and responsibility of data management in the public cloud are plenty, but not everyone is fully aware of them. We may take things like data backup and application resiliency in the cloud for granted, but maybe this is false-confidence? In this session, we identify the top cloud misperceptions that can punish your success, as well as talk about ways to mitigate these risks with solutions you can take advantage of today.
From Disaster to Recovery: Preparing Your IT for the UnexpectedDataCore Software
Did you know that 22% of data center outages are caused by human error? Or that 10% are caused by weather incidents?
The impact of an unexpected outage for just a few hours or even days could be catastrophic to your business.
How would you like to minimize or even eliminate these business interruptions, and more?
Join us to discover:
• Useful and simple measures to use that can help you keep the lights on
• How to quickly recover when the worst-case scenario occurs
• How to achieve zero downtime and high availability
EZ Cloud Connect from Tata Tele Business Services (TTBS) is designed to address these concerns and offers businesses a one-stop solution that, along with eliminating multiple-entry interaction is SLA-compliant and easily operable.
Le soluzioni tecnologiche per il disaster recovery e business continuityJürgen Ambrosi
Oggi è vitale per le aziende consolidare il proprio vantaggio competitivo sul mercato di riferimento. La crescente quantità di dati aziendali quotidianamente raccolta, elaborata ed archiviata costituisce di fatto un prezioso asset per generare nuove opportunità di business. La gestione di tale importante servizio coinvolge direttamente l’IT che, conseguentemente, deve adottare tutte le misure atte a garantirne la continuità operativa per rispettare i livelli di RTO e RPO fissati dagli obiettivi aziendali e dalle normative vigenti.Le soluzioni di Business Continuity e di Disaster Recovery indirizzano questa esigenza in modo puntuale, garantendo la funzionalità di servizio anche a fronte di fenomeni accidentali (guasto, fenomeni naturali, attacchi informatici, errore umano, ecc.) che potrebbero presentarsi nell’esercizio, evitando il rischio di interruzione del business e/o di incorrere in sanzioni amministrative.
Le soluzioni Veritas Resiliency Platform e Veritas CloudMobility permettono di realizzare infrastrutture di Business Continuity e Disaster Recovery con molta flessibilità architetturale. In particolare, entrambe – seppur con strategie diverse – permettono di sfruttare l’interessante opportunità di servizi in Cloud offerta dai vari Service Providers, risolvendo inoltre qualsiasi possibile complessità e rischio di lock-in di tipo contrattuale nell'adozione di queste tecnologie.
Dimension Data Cloud Services, Offerings and MCP LocationsDavid Sawatzke
Public CaaS
Public cloud IaaS deployed in each region
Private CaaS
On-premise or hosted managed private cloud service
Hosted Private CaaS
Hosted managed private cloud service
Provider CaaS
Dedicated cloud platform for resale by service provide or community
Managed Hosting
Managed physical and virtual infrastructure hosted in Dimension Data data center
RapidScale's Secure Messaging is a secure enhancement to business-class email, not a replacement. It is an addition to your current email, enabling business users to securely send, receive, track and control email communications on any device, simply and effectively.
Cloud Computing Stats - Cloud in the EnterpriseRapidScale
Individuals and small businesses have been quick to board the cloud computing train. Enterprises, on the other hand, have lagged a bit behind. However, it seems that big businesses are finally finding their way to the cloud.
Here are some statistics about cloud in the enterprise today.
CloudDiscovery allows users to get a full assessment of their current infrastructure and the data needed to achieve a successful migration to the cloud. It provides a user-friendly interface that lays out the configuration, desktop use information, and compute information within their network.
Multitenant, Dedicated or Hybrid - Which cloud to choose?RapidScale
With the increased consideration of the cloud, many organizations are deciding how to best integrate it into their business.
There are three main forms of cloud computing: public, private and hybrid. When considering the move, you shouldn’t just pick one of these at random. The choice should be strategic, based on the characteristics of your business. Each cloud model is best suited for certain types of organizations and needs, so picking the wrong one could backfire.
Scalability is one of the most popular and beneficial features of cloud computing.
When you move scaling into the cloud, you experience an enormous amount of flexibility that saves both money and time. When demand changes based on season, projects or growth, it’s easy to accommodate the new load. As things level out again, you can scale down accordingly.
Learn about the different types of scaling in the cloud.
Make from your it department a competitive differentiator for your businessMarcos Quezada
IBM Systems, combining the strengths of IBM middleware and IBM hardware to create a resilient, modern enterprise infrastructure to make from your IT department a competitive differentiator for your business. Infrastructure Matters #ITMatters
Are your backups are too big, and do they take too long? Are you worried you won’t get all of your data back? Do you waste hours managing complicated, temperamental backup implementations? Join is as we discuss innovative ways to improve your backups, make them more predictable, shrink backup windows, over-perform on SLAs, and reliably recover your data—every time, on time. Hear how other organizations are developing smarter backup strategies that align their recovery requirements to their business objectives, reduce stored data by up to 95% while boosting backup speeds as much as 200%.
Who Is Really Responsible: Public Cloud Misperceptions and the Need for Multi...Veritas Technologies LLC
Misperceptions around data ownership and responsibility of data management in the public cloud are plenty, but not everyone is fully aware of them. We may take things like data backup and application resiliency in the cloud for granted, but maybe this is false-confidence? In this session, we identify the top cloud misperceptions that can punish your success, as well as talk about ways to mitigate these risks with solutions you can take advantage of today.
From Disaster to Recovery: Preparing Your IT for the UnexpectedDataCore Software
Did you know that 22% of data center outages are caused by human error? Or that 10% are caused by weather incidents?
The impact of an unexpected outage for just a few hours or even days could be catastrophic to your business.
How would you like to minimize or even eliminate these business interruptions, and more?
Join us to discover:
• Useful and simple measures to use that can help you keep the lights on
• How to quickly recover when the worst-case scenario occurs
• How to achieve zero downtime and high availability
EZ Cloud Connect from Tata Tele Business Services (TTBS) is designed to address these concerns and offers businesses a one-stop solution that, along with eliminating multiple-entry interaction is SLA-compliant and easily operable.
Le soluzioni tecnologiche per il disaster recovery e business continuityJürgen Ambrosi
Oggi è vitale per le aziende consolidare il proprio vantaggio competitivo sul mercato di riferimento. La crescente quantità di dati aziendali quotidianamente raccolta, elaborata ed archiviata costituisce di fatto un prezioso asset per generare nuove opportunità di business. La gestione di tale importante servizio coinvolge direttamente l’IT che, conseguentemente, deve adottare tutte le misure atte a garantirne la continuità operativa per rispettare i livelli di RTO e RPO fissati dagli obiettivi aziendali e dalle normative vigenti.Le soluzioni di Business Continuity e di Disaster Recovery indirizzano questa esigenza in modo puntuale, garantendo la funzionalità di servizio anche a fronte di fenomeni accidentali (guasto, fenomeni naturali, attacchi informatici, errore umano, ecc.) che potrebbero presentarsi nell’esercizio, evitando il rischio di interruzione del business e/o di incorrere in sanzioni amministrative.
Le soluzioni Veritas Resiliency Platform e Veritas CloudMobility permettono di realizzare infrastrutture di Business Continuity e Disaster Recovery con molta flessibilità architetturale. In particolare, entrambe – seppur con strategie diverse – permettono di sfruttare l’interessante opportunità di servizi in Cloud offerta dai vari Service Providers, risolvendo inoltre qualsiasi possibile complessità e rischio di lock-in di tipo contrattuale nell'adozione di queste tecnologie.
Dimension Data Cloud Services, Offerings and MCP LocationsDavid Sawatzke
Public CaaS
Public cloud IaaS deployed in each region
Private CaaS
On-premise or hosted managed private cloud service
Hosted Private CaaS
Hosted managed private cloud service
Provider CaaS
Dedicated cloud platform for resale by service provide or community
Managed Hosting
Managed physical and virtual infrastructure hosted in Dimension Data data center
RapidScale's Secure Messaging is a secure enhancement to business-class email, not a replacement. It is an addition to your current email, enabling business users to securely send, receive, track and control email communications on any device, simply and effectively.
Cloud Computing Stats - Cloud in the EnterpriseRapidScale
Individuals and small businesses have been quick to board the cloud computing train. Enterprises, on the other hand, have lagged a bit behind. However, it seems that big businesses are finally finding their way to the cloud.
Here are some statistics about cloud in the enterprise today.
Cloud Computing Stats - Security and RecoveryRapidScale
Countless studies have shown that cloud security is the major factor standing in the way of cloud adoption. While in some cases companies are right to be wary, like most things, not all cloud providers are created equal. In fact, the security a company experiences with the cloud solely depends on the provider chosen.
And more than ever before, businesses everywhere are increasingly dependent on their IT technology for production, operation and communication. This means in the event of a disaster, whether it’s a hurricane or human-error power outage, it is extremely critical for a business to have an effective, quick recovery time to restore computer data and functioning infrastructure.
Luckily, the growing industry of cloud computing technology comes to the rescue with Disaster Recovery as a Service, which backs up a company’s data and infrastructure securely in remote, redundant data centers.
Here are some statistics all about cloud security and disaster recovery.
Cloud computing can probably make the biggest impact in the SMB segment. Why? Because traditionally, these businesses haven’t been able to afford the same services and resources that large companies use, limiting their capabilities. Now, thanks to the cloud, businesses of all sizes can take advantage of world-class IT resources.
Here are some statistics about how cloud is benefitting SMBs today.
Disaster Recovery vs. Business ContinuityRapidScale
Are these the same things? Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity are stemmed from the same general idea: in the event of a disaster, keep the business running as quickly and as seamlessly as possible.
However, Disaster Recovery is a reactive solution and Business Continuity is a proactive solution for businesses.
Preliminary definition of the SaaS Business Architecture by Sixteen Ventures. The SaaS Business Architecture is a commingling of Marketing, Intellectual Property, Technology, and Business Model
The topic "SaaS", which was once such a disputed topic, has now been widely accepted. The increase in the adoption as well as the new technology innovations such as cloud has significantly evolved SaaS architecture.
The presentation will lead you through a step-by-step process of creating SaaS solution. The architecture design method is influenced by ADD (Attribute-Driven Design) and SaaS Reference Architecture that developed by SoftServe Architecture Group.
Ready-to-use Reference Architectures that addresses typical challenges with proven approaches to solve them (i.e., patterns) significantly speeds up the design and implementation process, making it more predictable and economical.
Open Architecture for Developing Multitenant Software-as-a-Service ApplicationsJavier Mijail Espadas Pech
As cloud computing infrastructures are growing, in terms of usage, its requirements about software design, management and deployment are increasing as well. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platforms play a key role within this cloud environment. SaaS, as a part of the cloud offer, allows to the software providers to deploy and manage their own applications in the clouds in a subscription basis. The problem with the current SaaS offers is the lack of openness of in their platforms and the need for learning a whole new paradigm when trying to initiate in the SaaS market. Big players, such as: Amazon, Google or Microsoft, offer their proprietary SaaS solutions. Another consideration is the amount of current Web applications that need to be re-engineered into this cloud paradigm. This research work aims to reduce the effort required to enter into the SaaS market by presenting an architecture based on open source components for developing, deploying and managing SaaS applications.
Security Architecture Best Practices for SaaS ApplicationsTechcello
Gartner has predicted 18-20% growth in SaaS market, and expects it to hit US $22.1 billion by the year 2015. They have also measured that SaaS adoption rate has increased many fold in the last few years (almost 71% of enterprises use SaaS solutions).
Understanding the Cloud and the Benefits for the Accountancy Sector - Present...LouisaHDUK
This seminar will provide an overview of the Cloud and its application to the accountancy sector. The session is aimed at accountants in practice and business that wish to understand more about the benefits and risks associated with Cloud Computing and how they might introduce it into their business.
We will define the Cloud; introduce the options available to your practice,; highlight the benefits; and address the common concerns.
This will be put into context with real life case studies from some accountancy clients that have implemented our Cloud solutions. This will provide a valuable insight into the practicalities of going down a hosted route.
By then end of the seminar you will understand what is meant by Cloud Computing; appreciate the benefits and issues; and be able to evaluate if this type of solution is applicable to your business.
Webinar - Which Email Archiving Strategy is Right for Your Business?Vaultastic
Regardless of what email solution you use, it is vital to have an email archiving strategy to keep this information available for Ready References (E-Discovery), meet Regulatory Compliance, Manage Mail Store, and ensure Data Security against accidental loss or malicious deletion.
But, what is the best strategy for Email Archival?
● Is subscribing to a Cloud Mail Service with Unlimited Storage enough?
● Do you need a Captive in-House archival system to ensure Privacy?
● Are there ways to ensure Greater Control and Privacy on the Cloud?
● Do you need to move your in-House email set-up to the Cloud in order to Subscribe to a Cloud Archival service?
● What are the Business Benefits of moving to the Cloud?
Mithi Software, an award-winning company, distinguishes itself in providing Cloud Email, Collaboration, and Archiving Solutions, which help substantially lower costs & improve productivity. Its software has been adopted by organizations of all sizes and spread across many enterprise segments such as healthcare, R&D establishments, financial services, education, government, BPOs, software, defense, manufacturing, banks, NGOs, Agro-industries, logistics, media, Internet Service Providers, infrastructure, retail, energy & power, transportation etc. Learn more: https://www.mithi.com/
With today’s evolving technological landscape, chances are you’ve heard of the term “cloud.” You may have even wondered why anyone would be talking about the weather along with computing infrastructures and data centers. Although the popularity of the cloud has gradually risen, there are many people who still don’t know exactly what it is.
The cloud is the general term for cloud computing, which refers to the use of the Internet to access hosted services or your own applications, storage, servers, and data that are hosted in a remote location. Saving your files to the cloud allows you to access them from anywhere at any time, as long as you have an Internet connection. You have probably been using cloud services or resources for a while without even knowing it. The most common cloud services include Gmail, Dropbox, Google Docs, and even Twitter.
Cloud computing is continuing to gain momentum among businesses and consumers alike. It offers consumers a more convenient way to store and share their files as well as access their data at any time, from anywhere. Businesses are virtualizing corporate desktops in the cloud and have considerably reduced the costs of maintaining their physical IT infrastructures in the process. Cloud services allow for more flexible working practices as well as greater mobility. Accessing your data on any device is safe and secure, and actually gives companies a better way to manage and secure data.
Cloud computing focuses on shared resources within the infrastructure. This means that customers share physical resources while maintaining security by reinforcing their “piece of the pie” with firewalls and virtual security. By focusing on this shared resource methodology, cloud companies can offer incredibly cost-effective rates compared to traditional computing due to the positive economies of scale. The more tenants that occupy a cloud, the more cost effective a solution becomes. The best Cloud providers use this method to offer solutions for a fraction of what they would cost should an organization attempt to do them in-house.
The cloud is quickly becoming commonplace in the world of technology. Its accessibility and convenience are undeniable, and more often than not, businesses and service providers have considered implementing or currently utilize cloud computing.
With the Cloud Workspace, Romi Technologies can help businesses simplify their IT, by providing a fully hosted and managed desktop workspace through the cloud.
Making the Case for Legacy Data in Modern Data Analytics PlatformsPrecisely
Modern data analytics platforms that fuel enterprise-wide data hubs are critical for decision making and information sharing. The problem? Integrating legacy data stores into these hubs is just plain hard, and there is no magic bullet. However, the best data hubs include ALL enterprise data.
So how can you ensure that you are building the best modern data analytics platform possible?
Join this webinar to learn more on:
- Best practices for integrating legacy data sources, such as mainframe and IBM i, into modern data analytics platforms such as Cloudera, Databricks, and Snowflake
- How Syncsort Connect customers are incorporating legacy data sources into enterprise data hubs to inform strategic use cases such as claims, banking, and shipping experiences
Mastery Webinar Series: How Cloud Email Archival Setups are 30% lower than In...Vaultastic
This email data management mastery series aims to educate and share Myths, Facts, Best Practices, Technologies along with live case studies. Learn More: https://bit.ly/2JVAaZ5
Part 2 takes a look at how opting for a cloud email archiving solution can help lower your IT expenditure by 30%, whilst also providing better security and durability.
Part 2: Cloudera’s Operational Database: Unlocking New Benefits in the CloudCloudera, Inc.
3 Things to Learn About:
*On-premises versus the cloud
*Design & benefits of real-time operational data in the cloud
*Best practices and architectural considerations
RapidScale is an industry leading company in the delivery, design, and support of Microsoft Exchange. Our Service Level Agreement on CloudMail is 100% uptime and all support is U.S. based as we take pride in providing world-class service.
SoftLayer, an IBM Company, utilizes infrastructure which is fully customizable, with a single point of control, for flexible and powerful cloud options. It is one of the only providers who offer Bar Metal dedicated Cloud, and completely configurable Virtual Cloud (Public and Private) without any t-shirt sizing.
CloudBackup is a secure and robust backup solution that automates data backup to secure cloud storage. The application combines an asy-to-use interface with a powerful functionality making a disaster recovery plan simple, reliable and affordable. RapidScale provides seamless and secure backup of your data to the cloud; takes care of all the management, monitoring and reliability for you.
Cloud software is offered to customers via the Internet on a pay-as-you-go basis. It’s extremely popular today, with most people using it daily without even realizing it. And this simple model leads to countless benefits for businesses and consumers alike.
Cloud Computing Stats - The Internet of ThingsRapidScale
The Internet of Things (IoT) is all about connecting devices and objects through the Internet. It’s a giant network of connected “things,” including people, creating relationships between people-to-people, people-to-things, and things-to-things.
Here are some statistics about the Internet of Things.
This infographic compares the 2015 service reliability of cloud computing's biggest players, including Google, Amazon and Microsoft. It covers downtime in hours and the amount of outages that occurred in 2015, with data from CloudHarmony.
IaaS, PaaS, SaaS - these are terms you may have heard, but do you know the difference? Understanding the cloud stack is an important step in transitioning to the cloud.
The hospitality industry has never before had a solid, scalable solution that helps businesses avoid spending too much initially on equipment that soon becomes inadequate.
Our solutions provide an agile computing environment, providing services that can be quickly changed to adapt to the needs of hospitality providers.
Cloud Computing Stats - Cloud for RetailRapidScale
As with most other industries, cloud computing is creating new opportunities for retailers. Retailers place a lot of importance on reputation and customer perception - both of which can be positively maintained with the cloud. Here are some statistics about how cloud is impacting retail today.
[Infographic] Questions for a Weatherman and a GeekRapidScale
We revamped one of our first infographics to better answer the question: what's the difference between a cloud and the cloud, anyway? We asked two cloud experts, a weatherman and a computer geek, to shed some light.
Countless studies have shown that cloud security is the major factor standing in the way of cloud adoption. Security is all-encompassing, referring to physical and network security, as well as compliance.
However, security in the cloud has finally turned a corner. Just as some companies currently have better in-house security than others, some cloud providers view security as a larger priority than others. What do we have to say about security? In cloud we trust!
Cloud Computing Stats - Cloud for HealthcareRapidScale
Security concerns are especially prevalent in the healthcare industry, and understandably so, due to its sensitive, private patient data. In the past, the industry has let innovation pass it by due to these worries, but today, the cloud is ready! As cloud security strengthens, healthcare can finally take advantage of the efficiency and cost savings of the cloud.
Here are some statistics about how cloud is affecting healthcare today.
Cloud computing presents many opportunities to boost productivity in an organization, ultimately saving time, money and energy. This characteristic of the cloud helps bring organizations into the future of technology while allowing them to focus on running their business.
[Infographic] Cloud Computing for the EnterpriseRapidScale
Individuals and small businesses have been quick to board the cloud computing train. Enterprises, on the other hand, have lagged a bit behind. However, it seems that big businesses are finally finding their way to the cloud, and RapidScale can help with the move.
BYOD addresses the rising need for employees to be mobile and more productive. They will appreciate the ability to customize how and where they work. With a BYOD policy, businesses will rest easier knowing there’s a level of transparency and specific rules to point to when employees have questions. By clearly communicating company BYOD policies, a business will build trust and good rapport with employees while ensuring that company information remains safe.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
2. Hosted Exchange
The Research
Osterman Research survey conducted in 2009 found that 81% of email users regularly check their
work-related email from home on weekdays, 78% on weekends and 60% on vacations
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45%
report that over
the past 6-12
months email use
has increased
97%
of email users
consider it to be
extremely
important in
doing their work
86%
consider the
phone to be
extremely
important
46%
consider Instant
Messaging to be
extremely
important
3. Hosted Exchange
The Research
• Email is becoming more important every day
• Offered for several years
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Currently over 160 million seats on Hosted Exchange
4. Benefits for Organization
Predictable Costs
• Fixed monthly costs with substantially lower start up costs.
• Easy Administration of new users or changes and deletions
• Extremely competitive monthly costs per mailbox
• Includes: Anti-Virus& Anti-Spam protection in the MRC
• IT staff can deploy projects instead of maintaining e-mail server (Typical 100 person
company will require 85% of a Sr. IT Technicians time)
Reliability and Stability
• 24x7x365 Domestic Call Center Support
• Consistent maintenance schedules and proper infrastructure deployment
• Data is Active/Active across 3 data centers
• Large Mailbox Sizes- 25MB
• 100% Uptime Guarantee
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5. Benefits for Organization
Business Continuity and Data Backup
• Email is backed up in secure data centers
Rapid Deployment and Scaling
• Simple Web Portal – Add/Remove Users with the click of a button
Painless Migration
• Easy and no longer upgrading server and also migrating e-mail. No
downtime
Flexibility
• Exchange provides tools to simplify the deployment experience
• Helps drive down the cost of storage by offering additional storage
• Exchange provides new tools and management approaches that
gives you more control and make your help desk more efficient
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6. CloudMail Features
What Does it Include: All of the features one would get with an
Enterprise in house deployment
• 25GB Mailbox size
• Active Sync
• Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) Support (for the 2 dozen BB users left in the world
)
• Anti-Spam, Anti-Virus protection
• Multiple Data Centers
• 24x7x365 Support
• Easy Portal
• OWA – Outlook Web Access
• Shared Calendars
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Myth 1
Lower Risk of Downtime with In-House
In-House
• Environmental Factors – Can
cause electricity outages,
overheating if the AC stops
working, etc.
• According to Gartner, the
average business suffers 40
hours of unplanned outages a
year AND 2 hours a month for
planned maintenance
• Little/No Redundancy
• Often No Backup Systems
• Typically no Disaster Recovery
in place
Hosted
• RapidScale offers 100% SLA
• Tier 3/Class 1 Data Centers
• Geo-Load balanced
Active/Active infrastructure
• High Availability
• Anti-Spam, Anti-Virus
• Disaster Recovery
• Email Retention
• Government-Grade
Encryption
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Smart Build Data Centers
• RapidScale Design, Owned and
Managed State of the Art Data Center
Infrastructure
• Cisco Routers & Switches
• Cisco & SonicWALL Firewalls
• Cisco Blade Servers
• NetApp Storage
• Vmware
• Citrix
• Logic Monitor
• We Support the Majority of Operating
Systems and Software
• Blended Burstable Bandwidth
Data Center Structure
• Tier 3, Class 1 Data Center
• Clean, Continuous Power and High
Capacity Redundant Generators
• Around-the-Clock Infrastructure
Protection – HVAC, fire suppression and
seismic engineering
• Security – on premise security guards,
exterior security system, biometric
system, including palm scanners and
numerous security scanners with digital
recorders
Reliable. Scalable. Secure. Compliant.
Myth 1
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Myth 2
In-House is more Secure than Hosted
Natural Disasters
Power Outage
Fire
Failed Disaster
Recovery
Angry Employees
Internal Failures
In-House Servers are the most susceptible to
many types of “disasters”
CloudMail has advanced above average layers
of protection
Active/Active in the event
of a disaster
SSAE16 Data
Centers
Backup
Generators
Disaster Recovery
24x7x365
Monitoring
11. In-House Exchange is
Less Secure
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• Less physical security
• Less digital security
• Less backup security
Security Breaches
• Security breaches usually originate within an organization
• In-house opens the door for curious subordinates to read your private emails
• Wrong administrative rights given to a user as a “work around”
• That door is securely closed with RapidScale’s CloudMail
Myth 2
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Myth 3
You Have More Control with In-House
CloudMail allows non-technical administrators to add and remove users, manage mailboxes,
distribution lists, and mobile device connections from one central location
Deploying an In-House solution requires hours of work and extremely complex knowledge, which is
not inexpensive.
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Myth 4
In-House has More Functionality than Hosted
Features in
In-House
Features in
Hosted
RapidScale’s Hosted Exchange solution delivers on the capabilities demanded by mobile
workforces. Access your business email, calendar and contacts on your desktop, laptop,
smart phone, and web browser so it can always go where you go. With Exchange, you will
remain in control of your solution by tailoring it to your specific needs and ensuring that your
communications are always available.
With a fraction of
the headache
(and cost!)
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Myth 5
Hosted is Too Expensive
Our pay-as-you go plan is affordable and will help to remove the budgeting burden as well as
hardware acquisition costs. Benefit from the latest version of Microsoft Exchange, and receive the
latest software and security updates. With CloudMail, you will save short and long-term costs while
receiving superior support. This is how RapidScale’s CloudMail differs from its competitors.
RapidScale’s CloudMail
$5.95
Per User/Month (Multi-Tenant)
15. Hosted Exchange Costs
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In-House (approx.) Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 RapidScale
Hardware $4,000 $0 $0 Included
Backup $1,000 $0 $0 Included
Outlook 2013 Licenses (25) $2,250 $0 $0 Included
Anti-Virus/Anti-Spam (25) $2,717 $917 $917 Included
Hosting for 1 Server $1,000 $1,000 $1,000 Included
Microsoft Software Assurance $2,343 $2,343 $2,343 Included
Deployment & Installation $40,000 $0 $0 $25/User One-Time
Admin Costs $50,000 $50,000 $50,000 Included
CloudMail $0 $0 $0 $5.95/User/Month
Totals $103,310 $54,260 $54,260 $5.95/User/Month
Cost Per User/Year
(25 Users)
$4,132 $2,170 $2,170 Year 1: $96.40
Year 2 & 3: $71.40
16. Why Hosted Exchange?
Hosted Exchange is the way of the future
• Managing internal e-mail is a thing of the past for many companies
• Companies would rather pay a 3rd party to manage e-mail, licensing,
support at a per user fee
• Advantages include uptime, call center support, allows IT staff to
deploy other projects that provide more value to organization
• No longer need to upgrade e-mail server or worry about current
licensing
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Description Hosted Exchange In-House Exchange
Software Licenses
Enterprise-grade hardware
24x7x365 Support
100% Uptime Guarantee
Tier 3, Class 1 Data Center with
redundant power, cooling, and
network connections
Regular Backups
Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam
Why Hosted Exchange?
18. Why Sell Hosted Exchange?
The Demand is There
• Organizations are looking for this:
• 2003 Exchange is end of life and support
• 2007 Exchange represents countless in house systems today
• Easy way to start selling cloud services:
• Simple product that you know today
• Customers will move more services in the cloud after e-mail
• Trojan Horse
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19. What about Google?
Migration
• RapidScale offers full migration, Gmail offers “self-service” – which means users have to
manually migrate their data from their old platform
24x7x365 Support
• Live support – no automated phone maze
Business-Class Reliability
• RapidScale offers 100% uptime guaranteed
Control Over the Environment
• RapidScale offers single sign-on with the added advantage of Active Directory sync
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20. Ideal Candidate
Any Size Business
• Small and mid to large sized companies
• Smaller companies see a larger per-seat savings from the use of Hosted Exchange vs. on-
premise but larger organizations are switching also because of the benefits Hosted
Exchange brings
• GlaxoSmithKline moved 100,000 users to Hosted Exchange (2009)
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