Microsoft Canada Inc. recognizes achievements of leading Canadian technology partners and selects SherWeb, a worldwide hosted services leader, as a finalist in the Hosting Partner of the Year category of the 2011 MPN IMPACT Awards.
Montréal, Quebec, November, 2011 — SherWeb, a world-leading provider of hosted business email and collaboration solutions and Microsoft Gold Hosting partner, announces that it has been selected as a finalist in the Hosting Partner of the Year category for the 2011 Microsoft Partner Network IMPACT Awards. The ninth annual IMPACT Awards recognize excellence within the Microsoft technology partner community in Canada. A pioneer of the worldwide cloud industry, SherWeb submitted its Hosted Exchange 2010-based project that includes applications such as Outlook 2010, SharePoint 2010, and OCS.

“Technology partners are at the core of Microsoft’s business,” said Neil Tanner, Vice-President, Small Business, Midmarket Solutions & Partners, Microsoft Canada Inc. “We are honoured to celebrate and recognize the outstanding achievements of industry leaders like SherWeb through the Microsoft Partner Network IMPACT Awards. We are proud to work with them as they deliver innovative solutions to mutual customers. ”

Peter Cassar, CEO and co-founder of SherWeb stated: “We are proud to figure among the elite group of finalists for this year’s Microsoft Partner Network IMPACT Awards. This recognition is a testimony to the worldwide success of SherWeb’s Hosted Exchange offering. With the coming launch of Lync 2010, we will further strengthen our position as the leading hosting provider of Exchange 2010 and SharePoint 2010.”

The winners will be announced at the award ceremony evening to be held on November 30, 2011 in Toronto, Ontario, when SherWeb, along with other technology partner winners and finalists in each of the award categories, will be honoured.

About the Microsoft Partner Network IMPACT Awards

In 2003, Microsoft Canada Inc. launched the IMPACT Awards, a program to recognize the numerous achievements within its technology Partner community. This year’s awards program is bigger than ever with over 35 award categories designed to recognize excellence across Microsoft Partner Network competencies, emerging technologies, community involvement as well as sales, marketing and partnering excellence.
The IMPACT Awards are open to Active Canadian members of the Microsoft Partner Network.
For a list of all 2011 finalists, and more information on the Microsoft Partner Network IMPACT Awards, please visit http://www.microsoft.ca/awards.

About SherWeb Inc. - A worldwide award-winning hosted services leader ranked in the top 100 of the 2011 Deloitte Technology Fast 500TM, SherWeb specializes in providing competitive email and collaboration solutions to businesses and partners around the world. Founded in 1998, SherWeb is a privately-owned company headquartered in Quebec, Canada. Its service portfolio includes Exchange 2010, Office Communications Server 2007, SharePoint Foundation 2010, Dynamics CRM, BlackBerry Enterprise Server, ActiveSync (iPhone), Web Hosting, Virtual Private Servers, and more. For more information, visit www.sherweb.com.

SherWeb, a leader in email and collaborative hosted services has been selected by Ingram Micro Inc. to extend the reach of its cloud-based email and collaborative services offering outside the United States to Canada. Ingram Micro, a global broad-based IT distributor present in more than 150 countries offers cloud-based services among other IT products and services.

Ingram Micro were looking for a Canadian partner and according to Ingram Micro’s Vice President SherWeb was the best candidate as they enjoy a reliable platform, extensive expertise and a multilingual set of solutions together with their solid reputation for delivering cloud services. SherWeb already enjoy a strong presence in over 100 countries with their Hosted Exchange, SharePoint and Dynamics CRM solutions. SherWeb will be providing Ingram Micro’s Canadian VAR and MSP communities with hosted services such as Exchange, SharePoint, Blackberry Enterprise Server, and OCS 2007.

Ingram Micro and SherWeb are planning on offering these new cloud services this summer. Please visit www.ingrammicrocloud.com for more information about the SherWeb technologies coming soon to Ingram Micro. 

Organizations Interested In Microsoft Exchange As Their Cloud-Based, Business-Class Email Solution Can Have Peace Of Mind Knowing That A Reliable And Secure Hosted Email Service Is Now Available At A Cost Effective Price. –

WALTHAM, Massachusetts – November 1, 2010 – 123Together.com – a mindSHIFT Technologies company with 10 years’ experience in delivering business class email solutions – announced today that it is the first provider of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Hosted Edition.  This most recent release of Microsoft’s Exchange Server technology is specifically designed with a multi-tenant architecture to enable hosting providers to offer enterprise-class messaging to multiple organizations on a shared server.  It is the only version of Exchange Server 2010 to be fully supported by Microsoft as a web-based email service. 

“Our goal is to provide the most advanced and cost effective messaging solutions to small and mid-size organizations,” said William Flynn, 123Together.com general manager.  “The enterprise version of Exchange Server 2010, which has been offered by some providers in a hosted environment, is not supported by Microsoft and, due to the high value we and our customers place on reliable service, we chose to wait until this fully supported version was available before we would offer it to customers.  Organizations eager to adopt Exchange 2010 as a hosted service can now have peace of mind – knowing that both 123Together.com and Microsoft stand behind this secure, stable and reliable web-based email solution.”

This Fortune-500 class hosted email service enables small and mid-size organizations to benefit from a leading business tool at an affordable price. 

To celebrate this significant milestone as the first in the industry to offer the hosted edition of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, 123Together.com is offering hosted Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 email service at $6.99/user/month to all new shared server customers who sign up for the service by November 30, 2010.*   

• New 123Together.com customers can benefit from:
  25 GB mailbox size.
• 50 MB file attachment size.
• Free Windows SharePoint site for all new hosted Exchange 2010 customers.
• Free copy of Microsoft Outlook 2010 for PC users or Entourage 2008 for Mac users.
• Multi-instant data storage with two copies of customer data automatically replicated in real time in addition to daily data backup. 
• 24×7x365 live U.S.-based technical support for all users via phone, email or online chat.

Hosted Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 users can now:

• Get a full-featured web email experience using Outlook Web App and the browser of choice – Internet Explorer, Firefox or Safari. 
• Truly communicate from anywhere at any time with full integration of Microsoft Outlook 2010 in the office, Outlook Web App online, and iPhone, Droid, Windows Phone 7, or other popular smartphones on the road.
• Increase efficiency and productivity with a new conversation view enabling users to quickly identify all emails in a conversation and easily manage, move, delete or disregard them with one click.

123Together.com offers hosted Exchange 2010 in a pay as you go subscription model enabling new customers to purchase only the number of mailboxes needed – nothing more.  There are no minimum number of mailboxes required and mailboxes can be easily added or removed as the organizations’ needs change. 

In addition to Microsoft Exchange Server, 123Together.com provides a full suite of cloud-based business services including SharePoint, CRM, email archiving, encryption, spam filtering and more.  The company stands behind its services with a money-back uptime guarantee and around-the-clock U.S.-based technical support for all users. 

*Promotional pricing available for 5 GB mailboxes only. Microsoft Outlook 2010 or Entourage 2008 not included. 

USA.NET Recognized as Top Player in Hosted Business and Hosted Microsoft Exchange Email Markets by Radicati Group for Third Consecutive Reports

Customers Including Belo Corp., Cheesecake Factory, UHY Advisors, Inc. and United Airlines Continue to Rely on Perimeter’s Trusted Business Messaging Services 

MILFORD, CT, October 5, 2009 - Perimeter E-Security, the trusted market leader of information security and messaging services that deliver enterprise-class protection and compliance to companies of all sizes, today announced that its USA.NET Microsoft® Exchange Hosting solution has experienced an 18% growth over the past twelve months, adding 200,000 seats on the Company’s base of 1.1 million.  The company also announced today that industry leading analyst firm, The Radicati Group, Inc., ranked USA.NET as a “Top Player” in their Hosted Business Email–Market Quadrant 2009 report and the Hosted Microsoft Exchange–Market Quadrant 2009 report.  USA.NET is recognized for leading the market in both market share and for its comprehensive suite of hosted business email services.

Separately, Perimeter announced that an increasing number of customers are adding hosted email services to their existing security suites to create a comprehensive security approach. 

“Being consistently ranked by The Radicati Group for the third consecutive report is a testament to our exceptional track record and unparalleled experience in the hosted email and collaboration market and underscores how mission-critical email performance is for businesses of all sizes,” said Doug Howard, Chief Strategy Officer of Perimeter.  “The power of our security, email and collaboration solutions is driving critical mass in new customer categories beyond core financial services such as hospitality.  Since April of this year, we have seen our current customers adding services to their existing hosted email packages, and new customers seeking our solutions to help them remain laser focused on their core business instead of needing to divert resources to managing email systems.”

The Radicati reports highlight the full suite of end-to-end messaging solutions of USA.NET’s two business messaging solutions: CMS and Microsoft Hosted Exchange.  The reports highlight the following key strengths for USA.NET:

• Flexibility to combine Microsoft Hosted Exchange mailboxes with CMS mailboxes to tailor cost-effective email solutions.
• Highly scalable and customizable Microsoft Hosted Exchange offering that can be modified to fit a company’s current needs and infrastructure.
• 99.9% SLA for Microsoft Hosted Exchange solution.
• Free dedicated technical account manager (TAM), to serve as a private IT consultant for customers.
• Microsoft Gold partner with competencies in advanced infrastructure, mobility, hosting and security.
• Extensive migration experience across a full spectrum of messaging applications including Novell GroupWise, IBM Lotus Notes, POP systems, competitive hosting systems and legacy versions of Exchange.
• Enhanced credibility with Perimeter E-Security backing in verticals that rely on security, such as financial services and history as one of the first hosting providers.

As business email systems are becoming increasingly complex, specialized and central to communications, customers such as Belo, Cheesecake Factory, UHY Advisors, Inc. and United Airlines are relying on Perimeter’s trusted hosting services to assure the reliability, uptime and security requirements of their business messaging needs. 

“Before selecting USA.NET, we reviewed a number of top hosted email service providers and we’re thrilled with our decision.  Following a highly successful migration, we’re continuing to extend the USA.NET hosted solution across our company,” said Craig Harper, Vice President of Technology, Belo Corp.  

Perimeter’s USA.NET Microsoft Exchange Hosting solution offers all the benefits of Microsoft Exchange with the high-touch support, integration capabilities, scalability and cost benefits of a premier outsourced model.  As part of this service, Perimeter performs maintenance, patches, upgrades and backups, conducts training for staff members, handles migration, and provides continuing management of email and email security on a 24/7 basis.

About USA.NET
USA.NET, a wholly owned subsidiary of Perimeter, is the recognized leader for Hosted Email delivering messaging, collaboration, mobility, archiving and advanced infrastructure solutions for businesses of all sizes. USA.NET’s global infrastructure serves clients in over 120 countries. Cited as the “Top Player” for the hosted business email market by The Radicati Group, Inc., USA.NET is SAS 70 Type II Audited, Microsoft Gold Certified, a member of the Microsoft Technology Adoption Program for Exchange, and winner of the Microsoft Excellence Award for Exchange Hosting Solutions. For more information about USA.NET visit www.usa.net  or call 800-653-0179.

About Perimeter
Perimeter is the trusted market leader of information security services that delivers enterprise-class protection and compliance.  Through its cost-effective and scalable SaaS platform, Perimeter offers the most comprehensive compliance, security and messaging services that include: hosted email, encrypted email, firewall management and monitoring, vulnerability scanning, host intrusion and prevention, email antivirus and spam, remote data backup and email archiving.  For more information about Perimeter visit www.perimeterusa.com.

For additional information contact:
Maggie Duquin / Ray Yeung
Brainerd Communicators
212-986-6667
duquin@braincomm.com / yeung@braincomm.com

USA.NET is excited to announce that Microsoft ® Office Communications Server 2007 R2 is now part of our Hosted Exchange 2007 suite of services. With hosted OCS, you can dramatically raise your organization’s productivity by streamlining collaboration through real-time person-to-person communication via text, voice and video throughout your organization.  Key features of OCS include:

• Business Class Instant Messaging (IM) with end-to-end encryption so sensitive information is protected.
• Presence Awareness across email, SharePoint, IM, Outlook and Microsoft Office tools  allows you to find an available person quickly when you need to confer with a colleague.
• PC-to-PC Video - Personalize your interaction with video interface using simple webcams.
• PC-to-PC File Transfers - Allowing quick, securie sharing of files.
• PC-to-PC Calls - Enables voice through PC audio with a single click.

As an introductory offer, USA.NET is waiving basic setup fees for OCS through the end of 2009. Read more about hosted OCS on our website, call us at 800.653.0179 (option 1) for a live demo or watch this 8 minute video demo that shows how OCS with integrated presence can streamline your communications.

In a recent survey of Microsoft Exchange professionals, over 50% were still managing legacy versions of Exchange. Why are so many organizations reluctant to upgrade to Exchange 2007? Cost is an issue but complexity and risk are also big concerns. After all, everyone has heard the horror stories of “migrations gone bad.” Hosting provider USA.NET moved thousands of clients from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007. Planning started well before the official release of Exchange 2007 and client migrations have continued for over a year. During this webcast USA.NET shares their first-hand experiences with this complex migration. During the event you will hear:
• The top tips for a successful Exchange 2007 migration based on the experiences of a team that moved hundreds of thousands of user mailboxes
• The key factors to consider when deciding between moving to Exchange 2007 now or waiting for Exchange 2010
• Why legacy Exchange users should consider a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution as their upgrade path to Exchange 2007 and 2010.

Replay the May 2009 webcast:

Montreal, Quebec, March 9, 2009 - SherWeb, a global provider of Hosted Exchange solutions, revealed last week its spring promotion. For a limited time, businesses with more than 75 users can get 3 months free of Hosted Exchange and BlackBerry service when signing up. This never-seen-before offer represents a saving of over $2,500 for a 100-user company.
 
In the current economic context, SherWeb’s offer proves to be timely as businesses are looking for ways to cut on expenses and spend every penny wisely. Moreover, with SaaS (software-as-a-service) progressively becoming an accepted alternative, many are considering switching their internal infrastructure to a hosted service. Microsoft Hosted Exchange more than ever proves to be the best solution.

“Knowing how much time and money can be involved in the management of an in-house Exchange server, we want to propose the best hosted email solution at prices no one can decline,” stated Pierre-Olivier Descoteaux, SherWeb Marketing Director. “Plus, what better occasion than March Madness to introduce the most aggressive offer on the market!” he concluded.

Visit SherWeb’s website for more details on this offer.

About SherWeb
Founded in 1998, SherWeb Inc. is a leader in Internet hosting solutions and provider of shared Web hosting services, dedicated servers and hosted messaging and collaboration systems. The company is currently serving thousands of customers from more than 80 countries around the world. SherWeb’s hosting solutions are modular and scalable in order to ensure that customers can grow their businesses without having to invest additional time, capital or other resources into their Web and messaging infrastructure.

Joint initiative to provide cloud-based, advanced collaboration services and generate new revenue streams for VARs

Denver, CO. March 4, 2009, USA.NET, a leader in business e-mail hosting, announced today that they signed an agreement with HP to provide their hosted messaging and collaboration solutions as a part of their software-as-a-service offering for HP channel partners. This joint initiative will enable value-added resellers (VARs), managed services providers, IT integrators, and other channel partners to benefit from a hosted business email model by providing new revenue streams and helping them to become strategic advisors to their clients. USA.NET will work with HP to equip VARs with comprehensive tools and guidance to enable them to offer USA.NET’s industry-leading suite of hosted messaging, collaboration, email archiving, security and mobility services. As a result, they can generate new revenue streams by offering their small and midsize business (SMB) customers a greater choice of solution delivery methods.

This will make it easier for VARs to plan for and deploy hosted Business Email services. USA.NET’s hosted Microsoft Exchange 2007, Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, Commercial Messaging Services, Mobile Messaging, Email Archiving, Enhanced Messaging, and Secure Messaging Services can be sold to VARs and managed service providers looking to expand their hosting business and to level the competitive playing field relating to size and scale.

“This initiative builds on the strength of the existing relationship between USA.NET and HP and expands it to help VARs deliver best-in-class solutions and services that help customers streamline their operations and cut costs,” said Doug Howard, President, USA.NET. “This agreement provides a new source of SaaS offerings for VARs, the next step in empowering the channel to grow their businesses.”

In addition to generating recurring revenues for a highly reliable hosted business email solutions, VARs also can provide value-added services such as integration, customization and remote provisioning to managed services provider customers. 

“In this challenging economic climate, Channel partners want to grow. They can evolve their business model and leverage the collaboration between HP and USA.NET to become successful in the software as a service marketplace,” said Duncan Campbell, vice president, Small and Midmarket Business, HP.  “Our collaboration with USA.NET combines a comprehensive suite of reliable business email services along with the necessary elements to help them to enter this market.  Through our offerings, customers can acquire critical elements of their technology environment from their trusted advisor — their channel partner — as a monthly subscription.”

About USA.NET
USA.NET offers a comprehensive suite of highly reliable business email, email archiving, security and mobility services and advanced collaboration solutions that are modular and infinitely scalable to ensure customers can grow their businesses without having to invest additional resources, time or capital into their mission-critical messaging infrastructure. USA.NET is a SAS 70 Type II Audited, Microsoft Gold Certified, vendor and a member of the Microsoft Technology Adoption Program for Exchange. A wholly-owned subsidiary of Perimeter eSecurity, the industry’s leading provider of complete IT security on demand, USA.NET manages over 1 million business mailboxes in 120 countries. Its multiple redundant Tier IV data centers provide 24×7x365 monitoring and management along with dedicated account management. USA.NET has recently received top rankings for its service offerings by The Radicati Group, Inc., MSExchange.Org, Microsoft and others. For more information about USA.NET visit USA.NET website or call 800-653-0179.

SherWeb, a world-leading provider of Hosted Microsoft Exchange, presents competitive risk-proof, out-of-the-box solution for resellers worldwide. 

Montreal, Quebec, February 18, 2009 – SherWeb, a global leader in hosted solutions, launched its Hosted Exchange White Label Reseller Program last week. The newly implemented program provides IT solution providers with new revenue opportunities by allowing them to leverage SherWeb’s Fortune 500 infrastructure and incorporate a value-added solution to their service offerings.

In addition to offering the most competitive prices on the market, SherWeb distinguishes itself by presenting an enhanced, faster and more flexible control panel. Through the uniquely customizable user interface, resellers can tailor their product’s look and feel to better reach their customers. SherWeb also provides resellers with technical training and support, as well as sales and marketing tools.

“SherWeb’s White Label Reseller Program is a great way to quickly deploy the number one business class email solution on the market and give your clients their money’s worth on Microsoft’s hosted communications and collaboration services,” stated Peter Cassar, CEO of SherWeb. “Simple, 100% customizable and immediately profitable, our Reseller Program is the easy way to take part in the billion dollar SaaS opportunity from any location in the world,” he concluded.

SherWeb has made it a priority to make its Hosted Exchange Reseller Program as profitable as possible. Resellers have the freedom to set up their own prices since they bill their customers directly, thus enabling them to keep a close relationship with their clients and maintain full control over their profits. There are no fees to join, no contract, and no minimum sales volume.

Resellers can also benefit from SherWeb’s wide range of hosted solutions such as Office Communications Server, Dynamics CRM, BlackBerry, and SharePoint which are all available under the same platform, allowing for an even greater resell opportunity.

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About SherWeb

Founded in 1998, SherWeb Inc. is a leader in Internet hosting solutions and provider of shared Web hosting services, dedicated servers and hosted messaging and collaboration systems. The company is currently serving thousands of customers from more than 25 countries around the world. SherWeb’s hosting solutions are modular and scalable in order to ensure that customers can grow their businesses without having to invest additional time, capital or other resources into their Web and messaging infrastructure.

Replay the January 27, 2009 webcast to hear Michael Osterman, President of Osterman Research, and Steve O’Brien, VP of Managed Messaging Services at USA.NET present:

• Major trends in 2009 impacting IT teams responsible for email management
• Recent Osterman Research survey results on 2009 IT Budget trends
• Trends in Messaging and Collaboration that are driving SaaS popularity
• Business benefits of hosted email - in any economy

Listen to hear how a hosted solution can reduce cost, deliver better service and reduce IT budget risk in any economic environment.