(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Leveraging its relationship with Microsoft (www.microsoft.com) and BlackBerry developer Research in Motion (www.rim.com), Web host Rebel Networks (www.rebelnetworks.com) has built and setup a Hosted Exchange and Blackberry Enterprise service infrastructure in its data center in Toronto, Canada.

According to Rebel Networks’ Friday announcement, the “Oh WOW Amazing” Cloud provides email and storage solutions to customers worldwide from a secure Canadian environment. 

“Our primary goal is to help small and medium business customers set up collaboration, email, and realated services, without the need to manage mail servers, licensing, security, and other IT facets,” Rebel Networks president and chief executive officer Domenic Macchione said in a statement.

Rebel Networks provides scalable, secure and full-featured Hosted Exchange solutions that give users the ability to easily collaborate without them having to invest in mail servers, software licenses, security, or be involved with ongoing system administration. Users can have options to have active Sync enabled for their iPhones, as well as have full Blackberry Enterprise Hosting for their Blackberry Devices. Sharepoint, and Communications server will be added within 60 days.

Rebel Networks also plans to offer a wholesale version of OWAcloud to their resellers and other smaller hosting companies later this month.

The OWAcloud, according to Rebel Networks, will offer more than just email and blackberry colaboration. The plan for OWAcloud is to have small Business customers pay small monthly fee’s for services required such as telephony and voicemail integration, CRM solutions, email, mobility devices, but also wiki portals, tools, and access to legal documents, HR documents, best practices, and online accounting.

“The Idea is simple, a small business today needs to deal with many facets of IT, Telephony, Mobility, and outside consultants to help them manage all of these components and integrate it with HR, Legal, office administration,” Macchione said. “This cloud will make it much easier for small business to manage all aspects of IT, without spending CAPEX, or extra in IT.”

Rebel Networks services include the provision of managed dedicated servers, unmanaged collocation services, domain names services, reseller hosting, and shared Web hosting solutions with 100-percent server uptime.

As part of its cloud computing strategy, Rebel Networks added a new data center last month in Dallas, providing a range of services, including shared hosting, semi and fully-managed dedicated hosting, colocation and virtual servers. Rebel Networks said it would be adding US based Microsoft Exchange, Blackberry and other SaaS services with the launch of this data center, complimenting the SaaS services out of Toronto.

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