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Survey From Intermedia Is an “iOpener”

New York, NY (December 15, 2008) – Intermedia, noted for business email services and business web hosting, announces the results of a survey that encompasses personal and business email practices. More than 300 Intermedia users were surveyed, with the following results:

• 92% of end-users access business email on their mobile devices
• Less than one-third are using a company-provided device
• Blackberry and iPhone are on par – 38% use BlackBerry, 34% use an iPhone
• 47% responded that their companies do not manage security for employee devices; lost or stolen data are employees’ responsibility
• 33% responded they were unsure of their companies’ mobile email security policies

The survey seems to illustrate the blurring of work and play as employees use their own personal mobile devices as enterprise tools. The growing popularity of the iPhone has contributed to this, and the iPhone is closing fast on the Blackberry as the electronic device of choice. Additionally, with nearly half of respondents stating their company does not manage the security for their mobile devices, the survey also highlights the need for coherent mobile email security practices at the enterprise level. The survey results also give further weight to ongoing industry concern about about devices that are lost or fall into the wrong hands (the “rogue factor), thus becoming easy entry-points for hackers to access confidential business data.

For solution providers, the survey provides insight into a relatively new enterprise mobile opportunity: email security and mobile device management. Intermedia’s business partners have leveraged their Exchange hosted email platform to best position users to overcome security risks. One example: iPhone users, with Intermedia’s cost effective hosting services, are able to access all of Microsoft Exchange’s secure features through their devices. By accessing corporate email via Exchange through ActiveSync technology, enterprises are assured that information is synced securely. In addition, ActiveSync enables remote wiping, allowing a system administrator to remotely erase all corporate email and other sensitive business data should the device be lost or stolen. This functionality is provided in a cost-effective, secure and easy-to-manage software as a service (Saas) delivery model.

“This new survey data confirms that enterprises do not have homogeneous mobile device or mobile platform landscapes,” said Danny Essner, Director of Marketing, Intermedia. “Intermedia recognizes that the demand for secure mobile email services across devices and platforms will only continue to grow. As with our BlackBerry and iPhone offerings, we will continue to enhance our solutions to best meet the needs of customers and partners, regardless of whether they are in an office or remote.”

Orlando, Florida – (Website Hosting Directory) – August 8, 2008 – Microsoft Exchange hosting provider, Intermedia, announced at the CompTIA Annual Breakaway Conference, that it has joined as a Gold Member, the MSP Partner Alliance.

Danny Essner, Director of Marketing, Intermedia noted, ”Intermedia is proud to add its market insight and technical expertise to the comprehensive library of information that exists within the MSP Partner Alliance. Our focus will be on helping IT resellers and solution providers realize the opportunity that exists in the next-generation managed services market, especially as today’s savvy users demand offerings that go beyond basic desktop/server management. By offering more advanced solutions, including collaboration and messaging, partners will not only meet customer demand, but increase their own margins as well.”

The MSP Partner Alliance is dedicated to offering channel partners the right education and support to help them find success as a managed services provider (MSP). Joining this alliance is in line with Intermedia’s mission of helping managed service providers and other IT resellers increase profitability and growth potential by expanding their product offering to include software as a service applications. Read more of this news »

New York, New York – (Website Hosting Directory) – April 4, 2008 – Private label Microsoft Exchange hosting company, Intermedia, is offering web hosting plans that leverage the new technology of Adobe ColdFusion 8.

The new version of ColdFusion enables developers to integrate their web sites with .Net applications and provides them with real time monitoring and reporting of production systems.

Intermedia’s turnkey ColdFusion 8 plans provide a highly robust and flexible environment, with a 99.9% uptime SLA and 24×7 management and support. Pricing for the ColdFusion 8 plans starts at $39.95 per month.

Anna Silchenko, web hosting product manager at Intermedia noted, ”We are very excited to offer ColdFusion 8. The new version allows us to provide our large community of developer customers with even more flexibility, performance and functionality than ever before, as well as greater integration with our Hosted Microsoft Exchange Email plans.”

The launch of ColdFusion 8 brings dramatically improved performance and scalability, as well as easier integration with secure hosting environments, making it a must-have for ColdFusion developers. Improvements include:
- Performance increases. ColdFusion 8 software delivers significant performance improvements over all earlier releases of the product.
- Enhanced encryption and security. ColdFusion 8 includes RSA BSAFE Crypto-J libraries, which provide FIPs 140-certified strong encryption. Read more of this news »

New York, New York – (Website Hosting Directory) – October 2, 2007 – Private label Microsoft Exchange hosting company, Intermedia, has garnered the MSExchange.org resource website Readers’ Choice Award.

Sean Buttigieg, Manager of MSExchange.org remarked, ”Our Readers’ Choice Awards give visitors to our site the opportunity to vote for the products they view as the very best in their respective category. MSExchange.org users are specialists in their field who encounter various solutions for Exchange Server at the workplace. Their vote serves as a solid peer-to-peer recommendation of the winning product.”

MSExchange.org conducts regular polls to discover which product is preferred by Exchange administrators in a particular category of third party solutions for Microsoft Exchange Server. The awards draw a huge response per category and are based entirely on the visitors’ votes. MSExchange.org users can submit their votes for the current Readers’ Award poll in the site’s left-hand bar.

MSExchange.org is a Microsoft Exchange Server 2007/2003/2000 resource site. It is the leading Exchange site, attracting over 300,000 Exchange administrators and specialists a month. The site provides the latest Microsoft Exchange Server news, articles and tutorials by leading Exchange experts, message boards, software listings and product reviews. Read more of this news »

East Rutherford, New Jersey – (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) – September 25, 2007 – Private label Microsoft Exchange hosting company, Intermedia, has enlisted the MWW Group, to handle public relations and thought leadership in business email web hosting.

As agency of record, MWW Group will implement a communications program to develop the company’s reputation as the premier provider of business email hosting. MWW Group will execute a strategic media relations campaign targeting business, trade, national and regional outlets. In addition, MWW Group will provide industry analyst communications and a thought leadership campaign to position the company’s executives as experts in business email security, reliability and accessibility.

Rurik Bradbury, Vice President of Strategy at Intermedia explained, ”MWW Group’s expertise in business-to-business marketing and success implementing PR campaigns to position companies as industry leaders makes the agency a strong partner to achieve Intermedia’s communications objectives. The team brings the right balance of business-to-business experience, technical understanding and marketing savvy, which is critical when trying to address the widely varying small and medium-business market.” Read more of this news »

New York, New York – (The Hosting News) – July 24, 2007 – Private label Microsoft Exchange hosting company, Intermedia, and hosting industry billing solution firm, ModernBill, have joined in a partnership, to facilitate web host and ISP offerings of hosted Exchange email, along with the necessary billing systems.

According to the company, ModernBill users may start selling private label Exchange 2007 and SharePoint hosting under their own name and brand, managed by Intermedia, in as little as five minutes. ModernBill assists web hosts to bill for Ensim, Plesk, cPanel and Helm-based services. This new partnership is designed to allow web hosts to offer Exchange and SharePoint hosting, 100% under their own brand, using the same ModernBill system to handle billing.

Robert E. Leibholz, VP business development for Intermedia remarked, ”We are extremely excited to partner with a highly-recognized and widely-used billing software provider. By linking the ModernBill software into our private label Exchange hosting service, Web hosts have an extremely easy way to offer Exchange and SharePoint to their customers – instantly.”

Jon McCarrick, VP sales for ModernGigabyte offered, ”We have partnered with Intermedia following strong demand from customers, who have been asking for a proven and simple way to offer hosted Exchange. As the leader in billing solutions for the hosting industry, we are happy to help our customers develop new revenues and deeper, churn-reducing relationships with their customers.”

Intermedia’s private label Exchange and SharePoint hosting offering is designed as a source of additional recurring revenue for both Windows and Unix hosts. All types of hosting providers are offering Microsoft Exchange hosting to customers, who are in need in of a world-class business email solution with wireless capabilites and a world-class web mail interface.

Microsoft Exchange as a hosted service is an extremely popular offering, growing at over 39% annually, according to Microsoft. Intermedia offers a private label hosted Exchange service that allows Web hosts and ISPs to sell Exchange under their own brand, without having to build and manage the entire environment themselves. Intermedia’s private label partners completely own the customer relationship, and Intermedia manages everything else, including all licensing, hardware and maintenance.

Intermedia’s private label hosted Exchange service is flexible and can scale from an instant setup to a fully-integrated implementation using Intermedia’s APIs. With over 2000 partners globally, Intermedia’s private label program is the world’s oldest, largest and most robust in the Exchange and SharePoint market. Read more of this news »

New York, New York – (The Hosting News) – June 29, 2007 – Intermedia has announced that it will be the first Exchange host to support business email for the new Apple iPhone, as the highly anticipated mobile device hits the market today. In addition, if and when Microsoft ActiveSync support becomes available, Intermedia will sell single mailbox Exchange accounts with ActiveSync included.

Supporting ActiveSync l allow iPhone users to get direct push, always-synced email on their new devices. Intermedia’s ”iPhone plan” will include one mailbox for $10.95 per month, plus ActiveSync access for $4.95 per month ($15.90 in total), with a one-time setup fee to get started. Users will receive 500 MB of disk space per mailbox and access to the extensive features of Exchange 2007, such as calendars, contacts and the rich OWA 2007 web mail, in addition to direct push email.

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New York, New York – (The Hosting News) – June 5, 2007 – Microsoft Exchange hosting company, Intermedia.NET, is offering free copies of the Microsoft Expression Web and SharePoint Designer applications, two of Microsoft’s latest software offerings, upon initiation of web and Exchange hosting plans.

Intermedia is offering the promotion as a way to provide customers with tools to help fully optimize the business hosting experience. Exchange Server 2007 hosting customers who sign up for SharePoint Server hosting with 2 GB storage or higher will receive a free copy of SharePoint Designer 2007 (a $299 value), which allows for easy and powerful customization of SharePoint sites. Windows web hosting customers who sign up for annual hosting plans at the Standard level or above will receive a free copy of Expression Web (a $299 value), a professional design tool that lets users deliver superior quality on the web.

Serguei Sofinski, CEO of Intermedia remarked, ”We are pleased to offer our customers the latest in Microsoft design tools free with our hosting service. Between our superior Exchange Server 2007 environment, our premium web hosting and the availability of this new software, our customers have the most advanced SharePoint and web tools available today.” Read more of this news »

New York, New York – (The Hosting News) – May 24, 2007 – Microsoft Exchange hosting company, Intermedia.NET, has passed the SAS 70 auditing process, making it the first hosted Exchange provider with both SAS 70 and PCI compliance designations.

A standard achieved by few hosting providers, Intermedia is now SAS 70 certified across the entire organization, demonstrating its commitment to quality business processes and management. The SAS 70 and PCI compliance, is required by Visa, MasterCard and other major credit card networks for any company handling credit card transactions.

Serguei Sofinski, CEO of Intermedia remarked, ”Intermedia is proud to be one of the few in our industry to provide this level of assurance to our customers. Any company looking to outsource Exchange – a mission critical business application – should value SAS 70 compliance as an important indicator of high-quality and secure business processes.” Read more of this news »

New York, New York – (The Hosting News) – April 3, 2007 – Microsoft Exchange hosting company, Intermedia.NET, has debuted Exchange outsourcing, designed for companies with over 100 employees, in order to facilitate the adoption of Exchange 2007 to midmarket companies, while defraying the high costs of in-house deployment.

According to the company, Industry analysts have said that 80% of midmarket companies will benefit if they outsource Microsoft Exchange, and Intermedia.NET calculates that a typical midsized company will save over $100,000 dollars by avoiding an in-house deployment. Because Exchange 2007 demands the latest, most expensive hardware with full redundancy, as well as requiring that Outlook 2007 be purchased separately, outsourcing becomes especially attractive. Read more of this news »