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By Justin Lee, theWHIR.com
October 10, 2008 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Canadian web hosting provider Cirrus Tech (www.cirrushosting.com) announced on Friday it will soon expand its hosted offerings to include Hosted Exchange and SharePoint Services.
The news follows the web host's recent updating of its Linux and Windows reseller hosting plans in an effort to provide customers with full featured web hosting options at a competitive price point.
Launching at the end of fall, Cirrus Tech says these new Hosted Exchange and SharePoint plans will help attract new customers.
In the press release, the company says that any "detailed specifications and pricing for Cirrus Tech's Hosted Exchange and SharePoint services were not available" at the time of the announcement.
"We didn't want to bring to market our services until we felt strongly that it was among the best Hosted Exchange offerings in North America," says Cirrus Tech CEO Ehsan Mirdamadi. "We have taken steps to ensure that our services will match, and in some aspects exceed, the current Hosted Exchange and SharePoint services available today."
The company says it took a couple years to develop its Hosted Exchange and SharePoint services, as they required a significant investment in both hardware and software specifically for theHosted Exchange services.
Cirrus Tech uses new Dell Blade Servers, enabling the company to offer increased stability and energy efficiency, as well as Parallels' simplified Plesk client control panel and provisioning system.
The hosted Exchange data solution is backed by R1Soft's Continuous Data Protection software. Additionally, BlackBerry and Good Mobile Services along with the ActiveSync will ensure that clients can connect to their Exchange data from their mobile device.
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