Services :: Hosted Exchange

Our Hosted Microsoft Exchange E-mail Services provides enterprise-class reliability for messaging security and management, actively ensuring the security, compliance and availability of electronic communications, while helping customers simplify the administration of their messaging environment. The services complement your on-premise email environment and include hosted filtering for spam and virus protection. The solution is delivered from our high availability data center for a per user monthly cost. Customers avoid capital expenditures associated with buying and implementing their own mail servers and replace support costs with a monthly per user fee.

iZone Hosted Exchange:

Advanced E-mail & Information Sharing

Microsoft Hosted Exchange empowers users with advanced e-mail and collaboration features of Outlook and Outlook Web Access (OWA), accessible anytime, from anywhere. Hosted Exchange from iZone reduces total cost of ownership (TCO) for the messaging infrastructure and increases its reliability, security, and scalability.

Hosted Exchange 2007 Transforms Outlook into a Secure, Powerful and Collaborative Tool

For years, large organizations have benefited from the e-mail and collaboration features of Outlook with Exchange Server. Improved security combined with new and enhanced features, Exchange Server 2007 with Outlook 2007 give you a comprehensive time and information management solution that will help you better collaborate not only with fellow workers, but with customers and partners as well

iZone Expertise and Service

With over seven years of experience managing a telecom infrastructure for hundreds of customers, iZone has developed tools, expertise, and processes that enable us to effectively and efficiently provide services that would be cost-prohibitive to many enterprises. iZone Operations has experts in all areas of application and Internet infrastructure management.

Infrastructure solutions with server management are ideal for companies that want to focus on content and applications instead of daily system administration. iZone strives to provide best-in-class operations, secure and scalable infrastructure, dependable business solutions, and outstanding customer service.

Our Infrastructure Delivers a Solid Base Your Business Can Depend On

The Hosting Infrastructure is the 'brick and mortar' of all information technology. It requires many costly, interlocking components - hardware, software, networking technology, monitoring and administrative services, security devices, and people. With iZone, you benefit from the industry-leading technology of Microsoft, HP-Compaq, IBM and Cisco. In addition, you get maximum security, redundancy, performance capability, and skilled staff to manage it for you.

iZone and World-Class Facility

iZone provides customers with a highly redundant, balanced data center that covers network connections and infrastructure, application servers, and data storage solutions. iZone Data Center is located in the Free Trade Zone, Shuwaikh, Kuwait, with the infrastructure built upon industry-leading technology from Microsoft, HP, and Cisco.

Benefits of iZone Data Center include:

24x7 security and surveillance
24x7 network monitoring
Fire suppression system
Power backup system
State-of-the-art backup equipment and software
Multi-layered network redundancy ensuring 99.9% network uptime
Can provision huge capacity of throughput (greater than 10Gbps) using its 96-core Redundant Fiber Connectivity

Ultimate Hardware and Networking Equipment from HP, Cisco

iZone is an early adopter of Microsoft Windows .NET technology and Active Directory, and we built our data security around those platforms.

HP Servers

Our production environment utilizes top-of-the-line, outstanding performance servers, including:

HP Rack mounted Servers

Backup

Nightly tape backup to our tape library - multi drives enhance security and dependability.

Redundant Internet Connections Through Multiple ISPs

iZone connects to the Internet via redundant ISPs Qualitynet, KEMS-Zajil, Fasttelco and United Networks.

Power and Environmental Control

The iZone Data Center has redundant power feeds, battery backup for brief interruptions, and diesel generators for extended power outages. A redundant HVAC system maintains temperature and humidity.

HTTPS/SSL/MAPI Encryption technology

MS Outlook users connect to the Hosted Exchange Servers using either published MAPI or Outlook Anywhere, the recommended connection protocol. Outlook Anywhere, previously referred to as RPC over HTTP, allows users to securely establish connections to iZone's hosted servers hence removing the need for a Virtual Private Network.

Network Security with Managed Firewall and VPN On-Demand

Watchguard UTMs protect our servers.

Local Area Network with Cisco Catalyst Switches

iZone uses Cisco routers and Catalyst switches with fiber based interconnections with redundant parts.

Security, Privacy, and Performance is iZone's Top Priority

Security is paramount in all areas at iZone, to include all physical components, logical authentication, encryption and virtual private networking, content filtering, and virus scanning. To decrease system vulnerability, we engage an ambitious security-service roadmap that provides our customers with cutting-edge technology, alert services, and incident management support..

Physical Components Safeguard Your Data

Around-the-clock controls (biometric security and backup generators) to guard against outsider intrusion, fires, power outages, and other physical forces
Server standards based on HP system hardware
Connections to multiple Internet backbones
Managed Firewall and VPN On-Demand
Daily backups stored securely off-site

Logical Components Ensure Your Privacy

User authentication to ensure that only authorized users can access the system
Data encryption during network transit and storage using standard protocols like Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
Multiple levels of password authorization to assign specific privileges or provide access to designated features within a system
Enforced network management, monitoring, and preventative maintenance using the Infracentral NMS software
Software and systems that protect data integrity from outside intrusion and virus attack
Help-desk software for reporting and tracking issues on-line

Corporate Policy and Legal Apparatus Guarantee Our Commitment

Written SLA
Privacy policy
Comprehensive written procedures and "best practices" to ensure quality of service
Continuous Messaging Content filtering