Posted by Steve Schwartz on Tue, Jun 22, 2010
Here are a few recent updates on implement.com and our work as a partner with Microsoft.
implement.com attends 2010 EMEA Hosting Club
We recently attended a gathering of executives from the top hosting companies in Europe called the EMEA Hosting Club. It was held in Vienna and focused on sharing best practices amongst the various companies in attendance in a roundtable format. We also took the opportunity to meet with some of our key European clients and work out plans for deploying Exchange 2010 SP1.
implement.com profiled in 2010 EMEA Partner Guide
We have been profiled in a Microsoft publication that highlights sgnificant partners in Microsoft's EMEA region (Europe, Middle East, and Africa). This is a great opportunity for us to relay our value proposition to a wide audience. Here is a link to the guide:
Microsoft Communications Sector Partner Guide EMEA 2010
implement.com guest blogs on Microsoft Communications Sector Hosting Insights Blog
We were invited to provide a guest blog on the Microsoft Communications Sector Hosting Insights Blog about the work we are doing with Microsoft on how to migrate to their forthcoming Exchange 2010 SP1 release. This is the first version of Exchange that will be officially supported by the product group for multi-tenant hosting. You can read the details on the blog, but I will say that this was a great opportunity to showcase our thought leader ship in the Hosted Exchange ecosystem and our role over the last 11 years as a partner of Microsoft and its customers for deploying the Microsoft hosting platform.
Guest Blog by implement.com: Native Multi-Tenancy Provisioning in Hosted Exchange 2010 SP1
Posted by Steve Schwartz on Mon, Apr 26, 2010
We are pleased to announce that implement.com has been invited to present at the 2010 Microsoft Hosting Summit. Our presentation is on Hosted Unified Communications and Unified Messaging, and how to go to market with Hosted Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 (OCS) and Microsoft Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging. Our presentation is part of the invite only portion of the conference for Microsoft's most successful hosting partners.
This is a nice acknowledgment of our thought leadership in the Hosted Unified Communications industry in general, and of our deep expertise with Hosted OCS 2007 specifically.
We are uniquely qualified to deliver this presentation for a couple of reasons:
First, we have been focused on how to deliver hosted Microsoft Exchange and Office Communications Server for as long as these products and markets have existed, Exchange since about 1999, and OCS (with it's first iteration as Live Communications Server) since 2006. In the nascent world of cloud computing, that makes us pioneers.
Second, we actually deliver the service! When we started our hosting operation in 2006, Chinook Hosting, we intentionally started it to deliver Hosted Unified Communications, including Hosted Unified Messaging. We were a little early. However, that early entry allowed us to amass key experience on how to deliver Hosted Unified Communications. It wasn't easy, but it paid off for us when we launched at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2008 the very first Hosted Unified Messaging offering based on Microsoft Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging.
This was truly ahead of it's time, but as cloud computing emerges in 2010, hosted communications services will be one of the key areas of focus for the successful service provider.
implement.com is already acknowledged and continuing to move forward as one of the thought leaders for the Microsoft hosted solutions ecosystem and this presentation is a validation point that makes us think we are on the right track in Hosted Unified Communications.
Posted by Jarmo Paukkunen on Mon, Feb 15, 2010
At implement.com, we realize that your clients are under pressure to innovate in response to an ever-changing IT landscape. That's why we're excited to announce our acceptance into the Technology Adoption Program (TAP) for Microsoft Exchange 2010.
The TAP was created to evaluate the partner and multi-tenant hosting capabilities of Microsoft's new product version so the company can (1) get early product feedback and (2) ensure that its features are fully capable of managing real-world scenarios.
So, why is this important to implement.com clients? It's great news, for several reasons.
- Since deploying Exchange 2010 RTM is not supported in a hosting scenario, we want to be ready to deploy Exchange 2010 in a fully supported scenario-so our clients can be comfortable with our hosting solutions.
- Due to our unwavering customer commitment and our dedication to solidifying an already-productive relationship with Microsoft, we were one of only a few companies chosen for the TAP program.
- Because of our affiliation with Microsoft and our opportunity to be among the first providing Hosted Exchange 2010 in a supported environment, implement.com remains at the forefront of the hosting world. That's good news for us-and great news for our clients.
The TAP program is widely recognized within the IT sector, which is just another reason why the implement.com team is excited about working closely with Microsoft.
Not only will we get a hands-on preview of Hosted Exchange 2010's revolutionary features-but we'll also be able to assist our clients in benefitting from its strategic business implications.