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Hughes launches cloud services on Microsoft platform
By siliconindia
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Thursday, 12 May 2011, 00:58 IST
Bangalore: Hughes Communications India, a leading provider of broadband satellite and managed network services, and a wholly owned subsidiary of Hughes network systems announced that it has partnered with Microsoft to launch a subscription-based messaging and collaborative service built on Microsoft's communication services platform for business customers.
As a completely integrated communications service, 'Hughes Productivity Services,' will offer end-to-end e-mailing solutions which promotes business messaging and collaboration. This service will eliminate users' needs to invest in hardware, software licenses, security and related management costs by providing a 'pay-per mailbox' service model and includes hosted versions of Microsoft exchange, SharePoint, and Office Communications Server.
The Microsoft communication services works on a pay- as- you- go and Zero Investment model, thus providing enterprises and SMBs with a rich enterprise'class applications hosting platform without any up-front costs along with significant productivity benefits.
Customers will now have a cost-efficient enterprise class mailing solution without the hassle of infrastructure management and support. They can also rely on the service to deliver features such as active sync mobile devices integration, flexible mail box size, web calendaring facility, remote location archiving, and sender reputation filtering.
The key features of Microsoft communication services include fast, reliable and secure infrastructure consisting of redundant network connections, premium anti spam and anti-virus, anywhere access, collaboration features like group calendaring and scheduling, public e-mail folders, shared contacts, calendars and folders, message recovery and retention, data back up and archiving.
Shivaji Chatterjee, Vice President, Enterprise Business, HCIL said, "The demand for software as a service model among Indian enterprises and SMBs has grown many fold over last few years. We are proud to be the front runners in offering the Microsoft based messaging and collaboration software in India as a hosted model. The Microsoft hosted exchange will provide more choice, flexibility and affordability to customers since they will not have to invest in buying license, installing and managing the software in-house."
The installed base of hosted email mailboxes in the APAC region, including both business and consumer accounts, is expected to grow from nearly 1.1 Billion mailboxes in 2010, to over 1.5 Billion mailboxes by 2014.
