12/10/2009 7:47:00 AM
At ISC, we've been a Software as a Service provider for a number of years. As a result, we have developed relationships with several large data centers where we either lease or co-locate equipment to run solutions we provide to our customers.
Recently, we took the next step by migrating our email system, Microsoft Exchange, to the cloud. We're now using Microsoft Online.
- The migration was almost transparent; we all had to install a new Microsoft Online Sign In application and that was about it.
- Our Outlook based rules didn't migrate--but other than that, everything did.
- As a result of the migration, we upgraded from Exchange 2003, which we've been running for a long time, to Exchange 2007.
- We shut down our Exchange server in our office server room.
- Now we can use the full Outlook client no matter where we are as long as we have Internet access--not something we supported before.
- Our mailbox capacity is now increased quite a bit, up to 20 mb per mailbox.
Thanks to Greg Dodge of EC3, our business partner and cloud computing architect, for overseeing the migration and providing some assistance to our users.