May 19-20 l Washington, DC l Omni Shoreham
iPhone 2.0, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile Smart-Phone Hosting without Exchange and BES
John Davies
President & CEO
MailSite Software, Inc.
Introduction to MailSite Software, Inc.
• Leading provider of scalable messaging and collaboration server software for Windows hosting providers • Thousands of Hosting Provider customers worldwide • Parallels Technology Partner • Currently integrated with Parallels Sphera • Working on integrating MailSite with Parallels Plesk and Virtuoso • Shared and dedicated email and collaboration hosting platform
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Current SMB Messaging Hosting Market
• Three tiers :
– Premium
▪ Exchange, BlackBerry Enterprise Server, SharePoint, etc.
– Basic
▪ POP/IMAP ▪ Sometimes limited calendaring, Outlook plugins ▪ Mobile via BlackBerry Internet Service
– Consumer+
▪ Google Apps ▪ Yahoo Mail Plus
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Issues For Hosting Companies
• High TCO for Premium offering
– Exchange license costs
– BES license costs – High end hardware – High staff costs
• Little differentiation • Strong vendor power • Multiple points of failure
– Exchange and BES for Corporate BlackBerry sync
– Mail Server and BIS for cheaper BlackBerry sync
• “Basic” offerings now free
– MSN, Yahoo!, GMail feature rich and only ad supported
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Addressing Hosting Issues
• Focus on Premium features
– Outlook
▪ Mail, Calendar, Contacts
– Web Client
▪ Cross-browser support, rich interface, mail, calendar, contacts
– Mobile
▪ Support leading smart-phones
– North America – iPhone, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, Treo, Blackjack, etc. – EMEA – Nokia/Symbian, BlackBerry
▪ BIS functionality too limited for SMB
– 2 inboxes – No calendar and contacts
• Lower TCO where possible
– Is Exchange necessary for everyone? – Is BES or other Middleware required?
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HOSTING BUSINESS-CLASS MESSAGING WITHOUT EXCHANGE & BES
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MailSite Fusion
• Provide the business-class features customers value
– Outlook 2007 mail, contacts, events without plug-ins
– Rich AJAX based web client – Mobile email, calendar and contact support for smart-phones
• Do not limit users
– Support ALL Email clients including Outlook – Support ALL Calendar clients: Outlook 2007, iCal, web client – Support ALL smart-phones not just Windows Mobile & BlackBerry
• Designed to scale
– Field-proven to over 1m subscribers – Advanced 2-tier cluster – Full load balancing
– No singe point of failure
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MailSite Fusion Mobile Support
• ActiveSync Server
– iPhone 2.0
– Windows Mobile – Nokia E-Series – Palm Treo
• BlackBerry Plugin
– ActiveSync Client – All modern BlackBerry devices
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MailSite BlackBerry ActiveSync Client
• Separate stand-alone product • Download over-the-air • Simple installation & configuration
• Install and forget
• Talks to ActiveSync server
– No BES – No BIS
• 2-way sync of Mail, Calendar, Contacts • Uses native BlackBerry email, calendar and contact applications
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MailSite BlackBerry ActiveSync Client
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Flexible Features
• MailSite BlackBerry works with Exchange 2007
– Eliminate BES cost and complexity for all or some users
• Offer range of features & plans to customers
– MailSite Fusion without mobile options for basic mailboxes – MailSite Fusion with full features for knowledge workers – Microsoft Exchange & MailSite BlackBerry plugin – Microsoft Exchange & BES for those prepared to pay
• Improve your margins. Match solution to requirements
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MailSite Fusion Hosting Advantages
• All-in-one
– Replaces 3 servers:
▪ messaging server, mobile server, security server
• Licensing costs more than 50% lower than Exchange • Very low administration costs • Lower hardware costs with 32-bit servers • True Horizontal Scalability
• Fully Brandable for Differentiation
• Comprehensive multi-tenancy • True 2-tier clustered architecture
• Rolling in-place upgrades
• Field proven in hosting environment for over 10 years
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Exchange + BlackBerry Enterprise Server
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Remove the BlackBerry Enterprise Server
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Replace Exchange with MailSite Fusion
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Conclusion
• MailSite BlackBerry ActiveSync Client
– BlackBerry smart-phones without BES
– Works with Exchange 2007 – Works With MailSite Fusion 9
• MailSite Fusion SP 9 Server
– New ActiveSync Server – Works with iPhone 2.0 – Works with Windows Mobile 5 and 6 – Works with BlackBerry with ActiveSync Client – Works with Outlook 2007 without plug-ins
• For more information:
– email: parallels2008@mailsite.com
– call: +1-408-879-5600 or +44 (0) 113 383 0125
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