Lotus Notes Hosted Messaging

Features and benefits

Email is a critical business resource enabling day-to-day communication, collaboration, and productivity. However, email administration tasks - such as blocking spam and virus attacks, complying with regulations, taking advantage of maintenance and feature releases, and accommodating remote locations - can consume valuable resources. Add to that the hardware capital outlays and the resources necessary to manage the operating system applying OS patches not to mention the time and expertise required to manage security requirements. Help your business focus those hard and soft resources on more strategic activities by partnering with IBM, one of the worlds largest providers of managed services.
IBM Lotus Notes Hosted Messaging leverages extensive IBM experience in hosting enterprise-wide, highly available messaging environments for midsized to large enterprises. IBM brings you extensive Lotus Notes expertise, industry-specific business insight, and technology capabilities to help you align IT investments with business goals.

Benefits

Extensive Lotus Notes expertise available 24x7 from IBM.
Predictable costs with minimal upfront investment in infrastructure, tools and talent.
Shortens implementation time, reducing time to benefit.
Helps address regulatory and legal requirements.
Helps enhance security, availability and performance by leveraging IBM best practices.
Supplies the skills and experience needed to help confront spam and virus threats.
Access to specialized IT talent to help quickly roll out Lotus Notes capabilities to new users in your organization.

Features

E-mail, calendaring and scheduling with 1 GB mailbox per user.
IBM Lotus Quickr Personal Edition with 50 MB storage.
Two Service Level Agreements (SLA) options available, 99.5% or 99.9% backed with with financial commitments.
Antivirus and antispam services.
Enterprise-class servers, network, storage and firewall in an IBM data center.
Security-rich, reliable and highly available infrastructure.
Integrated platform, process automations and innovative management tools.
Standardized reporting and administration through the IBM iSRVCE console.

License options

Lotus Notes Hosted Messaging is available to new and existing Lotus Notes and IBM Lotus Domino customers. The price includes the IBM infrastructure required to host and support a Notes mailbox at the specified service availability level. The initial services offering has a 1,000 user minimum requirement.

Existing Lotus Notes and Domino customers may purchase the "Service only" option if they are and remain current with their Lotsus Notes client and Lotus Domino server Subscription and Support contract.

New customers (and additional users for existing customers) are able to purchase a combined service and software option.

Two service availability levels are available: The base service option provides 99.5% availability and a high availability clustered service (Lotus Domino clustering technology) increases that to a 99.9% availability.