Comments on: Half of All Exchange Server Deployments Will Involve SaaS Within Five Years http://www.mspmentor.net/2008/05/20/half-of-all-exchange-server-deployments-will-involve-saas-within-five-years/ Managed Services Blog for Top Managed Service Providers Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:58:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Mike Sladin http://www.mspmentor.net/2008/05/20/half-of-all-exchange-server-deployments-will-involve-saas-within-five-years/comment-page-1/#comment-12748 Mike Sladin Mon, 26 May 2008 06:54:03 +0000 http://www.mspmentor.net/2008/05/20/half-of-all-exchange-server-deployments-will-involve-saas-within-five-years/#comment-12748 I feel the challenges and complexities of delivering email and collaborative services within a ITIL and secure environment will drive many sub 500 user organisations to adopt exchange as a SAAS solution. The challenge for the SAAS provider is to come up with a simple but comprehensive framework of pricing the solution which considers security, ediscover, regulator requirements, BCS and availability as deliverables but still being able to really support a multi-tenancy service model. It will be good to watch how this segments matures. I feel the challenges and complexities of delivering email and collaborative services within a ITIL and secure environment will drive many sub 500 user organisations to adopt exchange as a SAAS solution. The challenge for the SAAS provider is to come up with a simple but comprehensive framework of pricing the solution which considers security, ediscover, regulator requirements, BCS and availability as deliverables but still being able to really support a multi-tenancy service model. It will be good to watch how this segments matures.

]]> By: Joe Panettieri http://www.mspmentor.net/2008/05/20/half-of-all-exchange-server-deployments-will-involve-saas-within-five-years/comment-page-1/#comment-11914 Joe Panettieri Thu, 22 May 2008 15:29:35 +0000 http://www.mspmentor.net/2008/05/20/half-of-all-exchange-server-deployments-will-involve-saas-within-five-years/#comment-11914 James: Just to clarify ... Microsoft is expecting half of "new" deployments to involve SaaS, rather than half of the overall installed base to be SaaS. James: Just to clarify … Microsoft is expecting half of “new” deployments to involve SaaS, rather than half of the overall installed base to be SaaS.

]]> By: James http://www.mspmentor.net/2008/05/20/half-of-all-exchange-server-deployments-will-involve-saas-within-five-years/comment-page-1/#comment-11668 James Wed, 21 May 2008 15:27:56 +0000 http://www.mspmentor.net/2008/05/20/half-of-all-exchange-server-deployments-will-involve-saas-within-five-years/#comment-11668 Half? That sounds a little too optimistic to me. Lots of companies will want to maintain exchange on site. And they won't want their data managed off site. I think hosted exchange will enjoy good growth but I can't imagine half of the market being there anytime soon. Half? That sounds a little too optimistic to me. Lots of companies will want to maintain exchange on site. And they won’t want their data managed off site.

I think hosted exchange will enjoy good growth but I can’t imagine half of the market being there anytime soon.

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