Intermedia Expands Business Email Hosting to 25,000 Small and Medium-Sized Businesses

Intermedia Expands Business Email Hosting to 25,000 Small and Medium-SizedBusinessesMore than 250,000 users now benefit from cost savings, reliability and bettersupport for Microsoft Exchange email

NEW YORK, Nov. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Intermedia, the worldwide leader inbusiness email services, today announced the expansion of its customer base tomore than 25,000 small- and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) in the U.S. Thecompany has more than doubled its Microsoft Exchange hosting business during2007.

By outsourcing Microsoft Exchange, customers stand to save thousands ofdollars in license fees, setup costs and maintenance by outsourcing theirMicrosoft Exchange platform to Intermedia. The company is now servicing almost250,000 individual users by providing enterprise-strength Microsoft email,calendar and address book, as well as wireless email access. Intermediaoffers uptime guarantees up to 99.99%, with 24x7 customer support from itsMicrosoft Gold Certified staff.

"Deciding to outsource our email to Intermedia was a financial no-brainer," said David Cohen, operations manager for Pink Elephant, a group ofnight clubs with locations in New York City, Chicago, Southampton, St. Barth'sand other cities around the world. "Our club owners, managers and otheremployees can share the same information and access their email, calendars andcontacts from various places around the world instantaneously and all we haveto do is pay Intermedia a monthly fee to manage everything for us."

"Hosted business email is increasingly popular thanks to the rising costof license fees and the management complexity of Microsoft Exchange," saidRurik Bradbury, VP of Strategy for Intermedia. "Our service, which isdelivered over the Internet for a low monthly fee, is a simple solution,especially for small and mid-sized businesses that have a stretched IT staffor no staff at all."

About Intermedia

Intermedia is the worldwide leader in business email services. More than25,000 small and medium-sized businesses trust Intermedia to manage theiremail, calendars and address books. A Microsoft Gold Certified Partner,Intermedia is committed to best-in-class service and ease of management forbusinesses that depend on MS Exchange. Intermedia is headquartered in NewYork, NY with sales and 24-hour customer service teams in Sunnyvale,California and software development staff St. Petersburg, Russia. For moreinformation, visit www.intermedia.net.SOURCE IntermediaMichael Sacks of MWW Group, +1-212-827-3749, msacks@mww.com, for Intermedia