LiveOffice Launches Cloud-Based Email Continuity Service

September 30, 2008: Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider LiveOffice has launched a new email continuity service that it says is perfect for those expected or unexpected outages.

The email archiving solution provider has announced LiveOffice Mail Continuity as part of its fall LiveOffice Mail Archive release, saying that the free service uses its cloud-computing infrastructure to provide free email continuity for Microsoft Exchange Server, keeping business email running during a primary mail server failure.

The company says the service can be deployed in just days and requires no investment in hardware, software or ongoing maintenance. It takes advantage of Microsoft Exchange Server's existing journaling functionality, which means that all administrators have to do is make a quick configuration change and route their messages through LiveOffice's network.

The service can be immediately activated via a web-based interface or by contacting LiveOffice. The company says that users can then access a seven-day rolling archive of their recent messages via a dedicated folder in Microsoft Outlook or remotely through a web-based, Microsoft Outlook-like interface.

They also have the ability to compose, read, forward, reply to, spell check and format email during the downtime.

“Historically, only the largest enterprises have been able to provide continuous email service, implementing expensive hardware-based replication and clustering solutions that cost thousands of dollars,” says Nick Mehta, CEO of LiveOffice.

“The average SMB organisation is left with nothing but AOL and Hotmail during email outages. With Mail Continuity, we are able to leverage our existing software-as-a-service infrastructure to protect clients' email environments for free and help them take a 'baby step' toward a cloud-based email infrastructure.”

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