Keep Your Business Running...
Even When Your Exchange Server is Down.

Why Business Continuity?

Email is critical for keeping your business running, however, most small and medium businesses operate in-house email servers that are not designed for high availability. While a hosted Exchange solution is the best option to provide enterprise-class email at a small business price with multiple tier-4 datacenters, premium infrastructure and continuous email backup, there may be reasons why a company may stay with an in-house solution. In this case, using Centrivity’s Business Continuity Service can provide a standby, enterprise-grade Microsoft Exchange server-based system that even small to medium-sized businesses can afford allowing you to continue sending and receiving emails when your in-house Exchange server is down. It’s a low-cost, no-hassle way to supplement your in-house server to ensure your business can always run.

Why use an Exchange Based Solution?

Microsoft Exchange is the backbone of most business’ email and collaboration platforms. Microsoft Outlook is the cornerstone of most workers’ desktops. Far beyond email, they use it for calendaring, scheduling task management, contact management and even as a file/document management system. Centrivity’s solution is designed to keep your workers productive and your business running when your Exchange server is down. Providing a web-based Outlook interface, the solution enables workers to immediately access all their Outlook information through a familiar interface with the same login credentials. The solution is far more effective in keeping workers productive than other, non Exchange-based solutions that only offer a basic Web interface.

How does the Solution Work?

1. Point your MX record to Centrivity.
2. Your email arrives to Centrivity’s datacenters from the Internet where it is filtered by SpamStopper to remove viruses and SPAM. (SpamStopper can be disabled if it not needed.)
3. Email is forwarded to your in-house Exchange server.
4. ContentSync, an important piece of the Business Continuity solution, securely synchronizes emails, calendars, contacts and distribution lists back and forth between your Exchange server and Centrivity’s Business Continuity Solution. DirectoryLink, another piece of the solution, synchronizes your Active Directory with Centrivity’s, so you can use the same log on credentials for both your Exchange and Business Continuity solutions.
5. Outgoing email is sent straight to the Internet from your in-house Exchange server.
Note: Your user experience is not affected at all (i.e., you can continue to access your mail via whichever mail client you normally use with the same configuration).
6.  If/when your in-house Exchange server fails, you simply need to select a button to activate Business Continuity via the control panel and have your users connect to Centrivity’s Business Continuity Solution via OWA to access their email, calendars and contacts.
7. If/when your in-house mail server is back up, you simply need to select a button to deactivate Business Continuity via the control panel and all the data (e.g., mail, calendar, contacts, etc.) is automatically and instantly re-synced back to your in-house mail server.

Synchronize Everything!

Unlike other solutions, Centrivity’s Business Continuity Solution continuously synchronizes all your email and PIM data with your Exchange server. The important information you need to run your business is always available and up to date, regardless of which system you’re using.

Turnkey Hosted Solution

Centrivity’s Business Continuity solution is a fully hosted service. There is no hardware or software to install, configure or manage. Centrivity hosts the solution in four world-class datacenters with premium equipment from Dell, EMC and Cisco. Centrivity provides you a 99.99% uptime guarantee so that your standby Exchange server will always be available for you.

Business Continuity Benefits

• On-demand access to your email, calendar and contacts, even when your mail server goes down
• Turnkey solution, no hardware or software purchase, configure or manage
• Protection against fire, flood, hurricane and other severe weather
• Continuous, bi-directional synchronization ensures both systems are always up to date
• Full synchronization of email, calendars, contacts and personal distribution lists

Pricing and Getting Started

Centrivity’s Hosted Business Continuity solution is available for just $5.49 per user per month. There are no setup fees, synchronization fees, or service activation fees. It is a far more economical and secure way to keep your email always running than an in-house high-availability or disaster recovery solution.

Contact Centrivity at 703-621-2100 to learn more on how you can prevent your business from losing time and money to email downtime again.