"Startup Offers Clustered Exchange Server With Managed Maintenance"

"A small Redmond, Wash.-based startup is shipping a new twist on outsourcing and turnkey solutions – a cluster of Exchange 2003 servers in a single box, replete with subscription-based third-party management, monitoring and maintenance.

Azaleos Corp. calls its new OneServer an “e-mail appliance.” The idea is to provide customers with a highly-available turnkey server “appliance” that sits behind the customer’s firewall. Azaleos then sells the customer a “subscription” – a multi-year contract – to provide patch testing and management, real-time monitoring and administration." ... read on...