VantagePoint Hosting provides hosted solutions to meet our clients' most critical business needs.  Today, we offer the following services:
 

• Proactive Windows Server Maintenance
• Hosted Microsoft Exchange
• SPAM Filtering Service (SFS)
• Application or Server Hosting
• Web Site Hosting

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Proactive Windows Server Maintenance - On a scheduled basis, our technical team will review your Windows-based server(s) to check on the following key 15 areas and report back to you on our findings and recommendations:

 

• Data Backup – Verify the success or failure and recommend course of action for warnings and correcting failures
• Virus Definitions – Check file server and e-mail components. Verify automatic antivirus updates and provide renewal notification
• Event Logs - Review application, system and security event logs
• Hard Drive Space – Document available storage space
• CPU/RAM – Document processor and memory utilization
• E-Mail Storage Size – Document total mail-store size
• SMTP Queues – Document messages in the queue
• Bad Mail – Delete where applicable
• Windows Software Update Services (WSUS) - Verify update approvals and deployment to desktops
• Review System Health – Check system agents for warnings of hardware failure (i.e. hard drives, memory, redundant power supply, etc.)
• UPS Alerts – Check Uninterruptible Power Supply log for warning and critical alerts
• Admin Inbox – Check for old notifications
• Print Queues – Check for corruption and old print jobs
• Exchange Logs – Verify e-mail logs are being committed after backup
• Microsoft Security Updates – Document and install available updates

Hosted Microsoft Exchange - Messaging is now a mission-critical application for business, but delivering a feature-rich messaging service is challenging.  Regulatory requirements are becoming increasingly complex.  Merger and divestiture activities require rapid adjustment of service capacity.  Solid technical expertise is in high demand.  And the “buy versus build” economics are changing.

A compelling solution to this challenge is our Hosted Microsoft Exchange service, based upon Microsoft's Exchange Server 2007.  This solution helps deliver the messaging protection your company demands and the anywhere/anytime access your employees want.  Hosted Exchange leverages our knowledge of Microsoft products, industry best practices, and the experience operating our own internal corporate messaging to deliver a first-class, mission-critical service.  We handle setup, provisioning, ongoing maintenance and upgrades of our Exchange Server infrastructure, reducing your team’s IT workload and freeing IT resources to focus on core strategic initiatives that move your business forward. We offer a comprehensive messaging solution with a simple per-user monthly fee.  Key features include:

• 10-gigabyte (GB) mailbox allocated for each user (larger capacities are available)*
• Shared calendar, contacts, and tasks
• Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2003 connectivity, including Outlook Anywhere, and Entourage
• Browser-based Outlook Web Access (OWA)
• Includes Virus/SPAM filtering via Barracuda Networks' Virus/SPAM Firewall
• Push e-mail, calendar, contacts, and tasks for Windows Mobile® 6.0 and above and iPhone 2.0 devices
• Support options for Blackberry users*
• Built-in business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities
• One-week data retention (longer retention options are available)*
• HTTPS connections to help keep Internet access more secure
• Migration tools to help move your current mailbox data into our hosted service

* Available at additional cost

To access your e-mail via Outlook Web Access (OWA), click on the link below:

VPH Hosted e-Mail 


SPAM Filtering Service (SFS) - According to the Anti-SPAM Research Group of the Internet Engineering Task Force, SPAM is increasing in volume approximately 20% per month. This could cost your company significantly in terms of IT resources and lost employee productivity each year. VantagePoint Hosting offers a solution to help you control the amount of SPAM and unwanted content entering your company. VPH’s SPAM Filtering Service (SFS) allows you to stop SPAM before it creeps into your network. SFS regularly scans, quarantines, and reports obscene, malicious, or other inappropriate e-mail content. In addition, SFS allows you to:
 

• Set rules and have control of both whitelists and blacklists.
• Access automatic updates from leading SPAM identifying sources, allowing for minimal administration and ensuring that your users have comprehensive and accurate protection, even as the methods of SPAM attacks change.
• Examine stopped messages in the quarantine area, accessible via VPH's 24 x 7, web-based portal.
   

By stopping SPAM traffic from coming into your company’s network with SPAM and content filtering, you will find many worthwhile benefits, including:
 

• Freeing Internet bandwidth by stopping SPAM before it gets into your network, decreasing the workload on your Internet connection and enhancing overall e-mail server performance.
• VPH’s professionals managing your SPAM will free up your internal IT resources.
• Reduced costs associated with disk space and backup of useless e-mail.

30-Day FREE trial of our SPAM filtering solution. 
Contact us for complete details.

Application, Server, and Web Site Hosting - Do you have a software  application you'd like hosted with the security and performance of a server, but no server?  We can host a variety of popular software packages such as Microsoft Office, SharePoint, or even Intuit's QuickBooks.

How about a server or even a web site that just doesn't fit into your current network environment or location?  Contact us and we'll do our best to develop a hosted solution that exactly meets your specific business and technology needs.