A hosted exchange service can also reduce capital expenditure. When replacing server hardware, a company can look to a lower specification server than they would have if they were still hosting their own exchange server.

Data retention is another advantage to having a hosted email service. Now if something goes horribly wrong, not only do you have experts dedicated to fixing the problem, your are backed up by multiple servers copying your email data across sites.

Hosted exchange services also can enhance productivity, improving collaboration on projects by sharing emails, contacts, tasks and calendars.

Employees can also access important communications and data from any Internet connection across multiple devices, seamlessly. The ability to work while flying long distances or commuting into the city is invaluable.

Hosted exchange services can include enhanced security to filter out spam and unwanted emails, helping to ensure that your infrastructure remains virus free and only emails you want to receive come through to your mailbox.

Enhanced mobile security can be provided by hosted exchange services, with options to wipe the device remotely if lost, preventing potential data loss or theft.

The larger infrastructure maintained by hosted exchange email services mean a virtually unlimited number of email addresses and enough storage space that you don’t have to fret over deleting what could turn out to be important messages. Sending large files is also less of a problem.

Ultimately, hosted email services will provide a better communication and collaboration solution for most companies without the expense and inconvenience of doing it all themselves, the ability to turn services up, down on and off is also very appealing for today’s businesses.