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Overview of Quantix's ExchangeCloud service.

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Quantix

THE CLOUD

• UK Centric Infrastructure• Ability to expand to global network• Built on “best of breed” technology (Quantix Cloud Alliance)

THE COMPANY

• Award winning Managed Service Provider• Established, Profitable & Experienced

• Fully Managed 24x7 by a team of 30+ accredited consultants

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Quantix COMPANY HISTORY

1995: Services Division within Sphinx CST1999: Created unique range of remote Managed Services2002: De-merged from Sphinx to form Quantix to focus2004: “Best PS Solution” at CNA 20042007: Quantix MBO, backed by ISIS Equity Partners2008: Investment into Cloud Platform2009: Launch of Rapid Recovery & Oracloud2010: Launch of ExchangeCloud

QUANTIX 2009 FINANCIALS

• Turnover: £9.5m• Net Profit: £2m• Cash balance: £2.5m• 7,830 support cases solved, over 2,000 consulting days delivered.

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Quantix Cloud Infrastructure

Backup Storage

Cloud DRWakefield

Cloud PrimaryDerby

Tertiary DCNorthampton

DC Interconnect

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DC Interconnect

VMware Replication

SAN Replication & Backups

10Gb Ethernet Ring

ISP ONE

ISP FOUR

ISP TWO

ISP THREE

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Resource Pools

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Common problems with in house e-mail

•Overhead of 24x7 management cost

•Cost of storage and infrastructure resources

•Plans to upgrade to 2010 and future releases

•Maintaining a separate archive solution

High Costs

•Typically single site deployments

• Disaster recovery times from 24 hours upwards

•Poor Connectivity resilience (in comparison)

Lack of resilience

• Rigid licencing model

• Typically physical constraints

• Multiple Exchange servers, increases complexity

•Difficult to rapidly expand or contract

Poor Scalability

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Common problems with hosted e-mail

•Customers have to adopt a vanilla, shared mail server platform

•Virus’s, Trojans & performance can easily impact other customers

•Services typically offered by “supermarket” hosting companies

•Mail not guaranteed to be held in the UK

One size fits all

•Many services offer e-mail through a web client

• Users typically have to sign in to the mail services

•IT helpdesk lack the tools to support users

•Limited Outlook archiving integration

Poor user experience

•Often poor or no Active Directory integration

•Impossible to integrate third party applications

•Internal PCI and audit tools unable to gain access

•Remote Access solutions often disjointed from company standard

Lack of Integration

Security Concerns

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Reduced Costs

ExchangeCloud vs in house e-mail

Improved Resilience

Cloud Scalability

•Only pay for the resources you need•We remove the expensive overhead of managing Exchange•A predictable annual cost, removing any uncertainty

•Resilient across multiple physical hosts and 2 UK data centres•Carrier grade connectivity resilience•A large experienced 24x7 support team

• Increase & decrease users and storage on demand• Resources can be purchased on a per unit basis• Our large resources provide unrivalled scalability

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Dedicated Environment

ExchangeCloud vs traditional hosted e-mail

Seamless user experience

Full network integration

•A minimum of x3 dedicated servers (FE, BE & DC)•Enterprise level security•Best practice Exchange build

•E-mail is delivered as an “in-house” solution•Archiving can be integrated with Outlook•Dedicated technical managers will integrate with your support team

• Sync with Active Directory• Site to Site VPN allows network integration• Integrate 3rd party applications with your mail environment

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Visit our website at http://www.exchangecloud.co.uk

Or contact:

Andrew SlaterDirector of Cloud Services

Tel: 0115 9836197E-Mail: [email protected]

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