Cloud Computing, Small Business Server 2011 and More! LogicalSolutions.net’s February eNewsletter

Moving to the Cloud – January eNewsletter

		EarthLink Continues to Grow! EarthLink welcomes Jim Pearson as the newest member of our Datacenter support staff. Jim has a Windows and .Net background and was formerly employed as an intern at Cazbah. Jim will be working in the LSN Datacenter NOC. Welcome aboard Jim!
		Moving to the Cloud in 2011 Looking to move to Exchange 2010 or leverage Cloud Services this year? Speak to one of our Sales Engineers to see how adding application failover and virtualization can cut IT costs and spending in 2011. Whether you’re looking for offsite disaster recovery or looking to run your production environment in the cloud, we have you covered. Our trained staff has custom solutions built for you with the experience and expertise to make the migration as seemless as possible. Calculate your cost savings today!
		FEATURED BLOG POST “New Cloud Server iPhone App” by Mike Salviski EarthLink has a new gateway to your cloud servers on our latest Cloud Hosting Platform. The Cloud Server iPhone App allows customers to view all of their server information as well as functionality to control tasks on the server. Click here to learn more.

LogicalSolutions.net’s July eNewsletter

COMPANY NEWS
 
Mark Your Calendar 
EarthLink will be hosting our IT Networking Event on Thursday August 19th from 4-7pm. Join us for food, drinks, data center tours and networking! Invitations to follow.
 
Free Bandwidth Rate Quote
EarthLink continues to grow. As we grow we purchase more bandwidth to make available to our customers. This means we have been able to reduce our bandwidth costs, translating into lower costs to you! Get a free rate quote today! 
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Client Portal Expanded 
Our team has been working hard over the past month with a variety of network upgrades. Included in this is the capability for our colocation customers to view real-time data for their bandwidth and power usage through their customer portal.  
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DID YOU KNOW?
Microsoft Hosted Exchange 2010
EarthLink now offers a managed Hosted Exchange 2010 enterprise email solution for as low as $12/month per mailbox! This comes with all the features including Outlook Web App, Outlook support, Active Sync, Mobile Support and more! Click the link below for the estimator calculator today.
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BLOG TIME
Featured Blog Post
“Lower Bandwidth Rates”
by Casey Rohrer

As a leading data center services provider there are many factors that go into managing a successful enterprise class colocation and hosting facility. Each one is equally important and benefits not only our customers from a technology standpoint, but a business one as well. While building our new SAS70 Type II data center in Rochester, NY, redundancy was engineered into every component of the facility to provide the most reliable and cost effective data center services in the industry.      
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SPECIAL PROMOTION  
Free VPS for a Month
For the month of July sign up for a free month of hosting services for your Virtual Private Server. Click the one of the links below to signup online and use the promo code FREEWINVPS for Windows or FREELNXVPS for Linux.
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Secure, Encrypted Microsoft Exchange Hosting

Email security is becoming a major concern these days. More and more organizations are looking to have their email encrypted and secure. Still, not all hosted email providers offer email encryption. EarthLink does.

EarthLink and strategic partner xDefenders offer a secure hosted email suite of services.  This includes a fully managed dedicated Microsoft Exchange environment, Postini spam filter, anti-virus protection, industry leading ZixCorp email encryption for optimal email security, MailArchive with e-discovery and ShareDefender for sharing large files and documents.

Many industries have regulations that require encrypted email and archiving. For example, the financial industry is held under GLBA regulation and the health care industry is regulated under HIPAA. Our hosted solutions have you covered.  We are GLBA, HIPAA and SAS70 Type II compliant. We have a full team of certified engineers that include CISSPA, CISA, MCDT, MCP, MCSE and MCSA certifications. EarthLink is a Microsoft Gold Partner.

Our complete solutions include:

• Hosted Microsoft Exchange 2010
• Outlook Web App
• Active Directory Support
• Active Sync Support
• BlackBerry Enterprise Server Support
• Mail Archiving
• Postini Anti-Spam, Anti-Virus Protection
• Zix Encryption Inspection Outbound
• Zix Portal
• ShareDefender Portal for Large Files
• Secure Instant Messaging

Not sure how to get started? Contact one of our Sales Engineers for a free consultation.

Microsoft Exchange 2010

Here at EarthLink we recently rolled out an update our own mail server to Microsoft Exchange 2010. Exchange 2010 brings with it many new updates and enhancements, especially for you corporate users who may have skipped 2007 and are still on version 2003. One of the largest leaps forward is enhancements made to the Outlook Web App (OWA) feature.  Outlook Web App, or OWA, allows you to access your Exchange 2010 e-mail features from your browser. This helps eliminate the need to be tied to your personal computer configured with Outlook web client.

One major improvement for OWA is the multiple browser support. Previously an Exchange user of OWA would have to use Internet Explorer. In version 2010, OWA is now supported for not only Internet Explorer, but Firefox, Safari and even Chrome.

Click the thumbnail above. You can see that OWA is completely functional in the Google Chrome browser.

Another new feature for OWA is the conversation view. The new conversation view allows you to group multiple threads from a single conversation together. This will make your inbox management far more efficient. If you’re a user of Google’s Gmail email system, you’re very familiar with how this works and probably quite excited to see it come to your corporate email system.

Click the thumbnail above for an example of conversation viewing.

A personal favorite new feature of mine is the shared calendar interface in OWA. In previous versions, you had limited accessibility to viewing calendars. Now with 2010, it’s as if you were on your PC working with the Outlook application. You can even enable sharing with people outside your organization allowing for increased collaboration.

Click the thumbnail above for a better view of OWA calendar sharing.

Finally, as more and more enterprise organizations are looking to outsource their IT needs, additional features are becoming available to allow this to become easier every day.  In the past you were restricted to access your Exchange application through OWA or connecting via VPN. Now with Outlook Anywhere, you can use Microsoft Outlook 2010, 2007 or 2003 to connect to your Exchange server outside your corporate network without hassle.   Benefits of using Outlook Anywhere allows your users to have remote access to the Exchange servers from the internet while using the same URL and namespace that you use for OWA and ActiveSync. Also, there’s no need to purchase an additional secure certificate either. You can use the same SSL that you use for OWA and ActiveSync.  For additional information on the long list of benefits configuring and managing Outlook Anywhere and Outlook 2010, contact one of our Sales Engineers today.