the need to acquire additional hardware or hire additional support. Instead, it can continue to provide the same level—or better—of service that faculty and staff have come to expect. Reduces Costs With the transition to Exchange Online, Microsoft Office 365 UTSA will reduce costs in a number of Microsoft Office 365 brings together cloud areas. “Using a hosted email solution, we versions of our most trusted can reduce our hardware costs, in addition communications and collaboration to reducing our overall data center costs for products—Microsoft SharePoint Online, power and cooling,” says Tuffentsamer. Exchange Online, and Lync Online—with the latest version of our Office desktop In addition, it no longer has to worry about suite and companion web applications for how to provide additional storage for businesses of all sizes. people who exceed their mailbox quota limits. “For people who need a larger Office 365 helps save time and money, and archive, we can easily pay for additional it frees up valued resources. Simple to use space per user, instead of increasing and easy to administer, it is financially storage overall,” explains Tuffentsamer. backed by a service level agreement that “And by moving data to the cloud, we can guarantees 99 percent reliability. Office 365 create more space on our current network features robust security, IT-level phone file shares for people who need it.” support, geo-redundancy, disaster recovery, and the business-class privacy controls and UTSA will also reduce costs for additional standards that you expect from a solutions, such as security and litigation service provider. hold software, that it used to provide required capabilities for its on-premises For more information about Microsoft Exchange Server solution. Office 365, go to: Eases Administration Because UTSA will no longer have to maintain its messaging servers members of the IT team can on other areas of support. In addition, IT can use Exchange Online capabilities such as role-based access control to help enable and manage administrative rights for users in other departments who need to create and manage accounts.
the need to acquire additional hardware or hire additional support. Instead, it can continue to provide the same level—or better—of service that faculty and staff have come to expect. Reduces Costs With the transition to Exchange Online, UTSA will reduce costs in a number of areas. “Using a hosted email solution, we can reduce our hardware costs, in addition to reducing our overall data center costs for power and cooling,” says Tuffentsamer. In addition, it no longer has to worry about how to provide additional storage for people who exceed their mailbox quota limits. “For people who need a larger archive, we can easily pay for additional space per user, instead of increasing storage overall,” explains Tuffentsamer. “And by moving data to the cloud, we can create more space on our current network file shares for people who need it.” UTSA will also reduce costs for additional solutions, such as security and litigation hold software, that it used to provide required capabilities for its on-premises Exchange Server solution. Eases Administration Because UTSA will no longer have to maintain its messaging servers members of the IT team can on other areas of support. In addition, IT can use Exchange Online capabilities such as role-based access control to help enable and manage administrative rights for users in other departments who need to create and manage accounts. Microsoft Office 365 Microsoft Office 365 brings together cloud versions of our most trusted communications and collaboration products—Microsoft SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, and Lync Online—with the latest version of our Office desktop suite and companion web applications for businesses of all sizes. Office 365 helps save time and money, and it frees up valued resources. Simple to use and easy to administer, it is financially backed by a service level agreement that guarantees 99 percent reliability. Office 365 features robust security, IT-level phone support, geo-redundancy, disaster recovery, and the business-class privacy controls and standards that you expect from a service provider. For more information about Microsoft Office 365, go to:
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