Why Should You Choose Dedicated Exchange Hosting Over Multi-Tenant Offerings?

Wednesday, 08 February 2012 15:35

So, what is the difference between a dedicated and multi-tenant platform?  Let’s think of a Datacenter as a city with hotels, apartments, and single-family homes:

Hotels/Public Cloud
In the public cloud each company has its own virtual server but is sharing everything else such as hardware, firewalls, storage etc.

Apartments/Private Cloud
In the private cloud, companies have dedicated equipment which is owned and managed by the cloud service provider.

Single family homes/Co-location
Companies own and most often manage their own equipment, but they keep it in a Datacenter facility to take advantage of the infrastructure and support.

Now you are probably wondering why this matters if your objective is to avoid wasting time and money by purchasing and internally managing your own hardware and licensing. Let’s compare the two methods, and I’ll let you make the call.

Multi Tenancy
Multi tenancy utilizes public clouds by running multiple instances of the same email program on the same virtual machine. This allows hosted mail providers to cut costs and offer a lower priced product. This also brings up many security concerns which I’m sure you are already thinking about.

Dedicated Hosting
In a dedicated cloud hosting environment there is one virtual machine for each client. This means that you are running Exchange on its own virtual machine. For any company worried about privacy, the security and control features of this method far outweigh the costs and threat of under-utilization.

If you are like the millions of other IT professionals who aren't quite comfortable putting your company's private and valuable email communications on the same cloud server as hundreds of others, then Sidus Data’s Dedicated Exchange Hosting is the choice for you.

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