We're a small company, so we stand to gain more than a large company might,
although I am not sure of the exact $$ figures. We are 39 users right now.
The majority of what we gain is cost savings, our server is near it's end of
life, it is currently 5 years old and bits and pieces of hardware are
starting to fail at a more rapid rate, warranty expires in April 2010 and
cost to re-up isn't worth it from the people who pay the bills.
I am probably missing a few, but off the top of my head, these are the
things we save/gain:
- Cost of new server hardware
- Cost of the OS, Exchange licenses, Anti-virus license, blackberry server
license, spam filtering software license, Backup Exec License
- Cost of related electricity and airconditioning - minor, but still is
something.
- Space in a very small server room
- New rack, current rack is completely full with DC, file server, vantage +
peripheral systems, phone system, UPS, switches, and patch panel. The
current exchange server is a stand alone on a small raised platform on the
server room floor and not in the rack, we would need to buy a new rack to
support it or buy a stand alone machine again which is not something we want
to do because of space in the server room.
- Backup size will be severely reduced, we currently teeter on the edge of
our backup system with a combination of an AIT-4 and LTO-3 tape drive, we
would likely need to move to LTO-4 at some point, but this will allow us to
push back that date. Our Exchange and email archiving takes up 50+% of our
backup space.
- Uptime, we don't need to worry about power problems or uptime of our lines
in our building
- Renewal of our SSL security certificate for our webmail subdomain.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Gotschall" <sgotschall@...>
To: <vantage@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 4:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Vantage] OT - Google Apps?
I'm curious, we host our own Exchange Server. What will you gain by going to
Gmail.
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From: Ned <TechnoBabbly@...>
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tue, December 29, 2009 4:48:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Vantage] OT - Google Apps?
Not yet, but we are making the move from an internally hosted Exchange
server to Gmail in early February.
We lose a couple things, but the gains outweigh the loses from our
standpoint, and the things we lose have been forwarded to google for
possible updates to their service, so they may not be lost forever.
I will be happy to update you once we move over and are working on it all
the time.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Norman Hutchins" <nhutchins@howelllab s.com>
To: <vantage@yahoogroups .com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 4:27 PM
Subject: [Vantage] OT - Google Apps?
> Just wondering if anyone is using Google Apps for their e-mail solution?
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> Currently we have our e-mail & website hosted outside, and each user (~45)
> connects to a POP3 account to download their mail to Outlook using PST
> files
> saved on a server. This setup is not ideal in anyway, PST files get to
> big
> and/or corrupt often. Users have basically not access to old e-mails when
> on the road.
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> Google Apps looks like it might be a nice improvement for us. I was
> wondering if anyone had some real world knowledge.
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>
> Thanks,
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>
>
> Norman Hutchins
>
> Network Administrator
>
> Howell Laboratories, Inc.
>
> Shively Labs
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> 207-647-3327
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