What I am using today is free and it is good enough for me.

Email is a mission critical service for businesses. With Office 365, you receive a business-class email service from Microsoft, run in geographically distributed data centers with continuous data backup, premier disaster recovery capabilities, and a team of security experts monitoring around the clock. Microsoft also offer a financially-backed 99.9% uptime service level agreement.

Is Office 365 (or the cloud in general) really secure and private enough for my business?

Office 365 is built by Microsoft and protected 24/7 by our engineers. We are compliant with world-class industry standard including ISO 27001, EU Model clauses, HIPAA BAA, and FISMA, which are independently verified by the leading security organizations. Visit http://trust.office365.com for more details.

I am also looking at Google Apps. Why is Office 365 better?

Microsoft has been delivering the world’s most utilized productivity tools, including email, for over two decades. The email technology in Office 365 is the same leading technology used by Fortune 500 companies, only designed for smaller businesses. Office 365 plans work best with Outlook, the best application for managing email, contacts and calendars with full offline support. Many Office 365 plans also offer access to the latest version of Outlook and the full Office applications as well.

How can I move my existing mail into Office 365?

Friend Computers can assist you with moving your existing mail by using our email data migration service.

Please view the slideshow below, to see more of the benefits of Office 365

 

      

Start connecting, collaborating and sharing with colleagues and clients. Hosted Exchange for business.

As a business professional you’re under pressure to cut costs, streamline your business, become more productive and efficient, whilst making yourself more available to clients and colleagues. So when the time comes to move to Hosted Exchange, make sure you choose a platform that guarantees you a safe and secure, quality environment with complete peace of mind from a partner you can trust.

• Reduced IT infrastructure costs
• Exchange 2010
• Instant deployment
• Massive 25GB per mailbox
• Enhanced security
• Mobile email ‘push’ technology
• No upgrades or repairs
• Shared calendars and contacts
• Easy mailbox control
• Public folders and subfolders
• Instant scalability
• Redundant networks
• Workforce mobility
• Award-winning Anti-Spam

Improve your communications
Hosted Exchange gives you the opportunity to build on your customer service and business efficiency by enabling you to contact, collaborate and share wherever you are and whenever you need to.

 

Safe and secure

Secure and backed-up service
Industry leading cloud-based security and segmentation ensures your data is safe and secure. Data is also backed-up each day on a 60 day retention period.

Award-winning Anti-Spam and Anti-Virus

All inbound email is first passed through an award-winning Email Security system, providing you with outstanding protection of your mailboxes – as standard.

 

 Outstanding service

Dual hosted
All Hosted Exchange services are dual-hosted. Multilayered systems are located across geographically distributed locations so, in the event of an outage, traffic is switched to a redundant data-centre and services are resumed.

99.9% Availability SLA
Ensuring you get the best service, the Hosted Exchange platform will be available at least 99.9% of the time.

Exceptional Support
We understand how important it is to provide you with support when you need it. You get the back-up of our highly-skilled support team who will help, advise and guide you through the installation and running of your Hosted Exchange services.

 

Communicate with Exchange 2010

Communicate better
Now, more than ever, your business needs cost-effective and flexible communication tools. With Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 you can achieve new levels of reliability and performance, help protect your communications, and delight your users by meeting their demands for greater mobility.

Instant email
Email becomes instant with Exchange Server 2010, be it on your desktop using Outlook, or from any web browser through the outstanding Outlook Web Access. Instant email communication extends to your mobile phone too, with synchronised access to your email from most Smart Phones.

Work together
With Exchange Server, you get to share calendars, contacts and can share documents using public folders across desktop, web and mobile platforms. When people work together, your business runs smoother.

 

Why Hosted Exchange?

Control your costs
Moving your Exchange environment into the Cloud means you get all the advantages of on-site collaboration, whilst reducing the IT overhead of running on-site Exchange or Small Business Server.

Reduce installation costs
By switching to Hosted Exchange, you get better control of your costs reducing the need for expensive hardware installations and ongoing maintenance.

Get more for less
It may cost less to move to Hosted Exchange, but by no means do you sacrifice service quality. The Hosted Exchange environment is super-resilient, is fully managed, and every email is scanned for viruses and spam before it arrives in your inbox.

 

What would you do if TOMORROW you found that all your DATA had GONE?

 

FCL uses the 'PerfectBackup' hosted backup solution as our supplier of choice, with whom we are an official partner. Their pricing remains competitive, and they have a reassuringly excellent level of service. We also can advise how to combine off-site backup with local backup for the best disaster recovery setup.

 

How does Online Backup work ?

The PerfectBackup offsite backup software runs a daily fully automated offsite and online backup of your important files and data. This allows you to dedicate your valuable time to your business instead of your daily data backup.

After the simple installation of the software you select the files and/or directories with important data. You'll only have to do this the first time, but it's possible to change the selection later on when needed.

The first time a full online backup will be made from the selected files. After encryption and compression these are sent to the PerfectBackup offsite servers for safe storage through a SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) connection.

From that moment on, a daily (incremental) backup will be made of all new and changed files. This on a time of the day determined by yourself, allowing full flexibility on when your back-ups are run.

Boost your company productivity and reduce stress by simplifying and streamlining your IT management, with our services designed specifically for you!

 

 AVG® AntiVirus – Protect your PCs and network

Award-winning antivirus protection detects, blocks, and removes viruses and malware from your company’s PCs and servers. Stay informed in real time with reports sent straight to your inbox showing the threats that have been identified and removed from your business network.

 

 AVG® Content Filtering – Manage access to distracting sites

Why not let your IT Provider manage distracting websites to keep your employees focused on business-related tasks no matter where they may be. Stay informed with activity reports sent straight to your inbox.

 

 AVG® Remote IT – Resolve your problems quickly

Our remote management tool helps you be more proactive and productive when managing your network and devices. Stay informed with in-depth event logs. Options to easily install or remove software, offer support, and solve problems with no interruptions to your employees.

 

 AVG® Email Security Services – Keep emails safer and spam-free

Email security services help keep your business communications more efficient, secure, and spam-free. We can deploy, monitor, and update all anti-spam, archive, and encryption services anytime, with no need for investing in any additional hardware or third-party software.

 

AVG® AntiSpam Cloud-based email security service that delivers comprehensive protection against spam, viruses, phishing attacks, and other email-borne threats. Always automatically up-to-date, it tackles dangers in the cloud before they ever have a chance to impact your network.	AVG® Email Archive Simple, secure, cloud-based solution that integrates seamlessly with your existing email infrastructure. It automatically routes all incoming, outgoing and internal email through the AVG Archive Cloud Gateway, so every message can be safely stored, searched for and recovered to individual PCs 24-7.
AVG® Encrypted Email Helps prevent identity theft and security breaches at your company by providing complete and efficient email protection. It eliminates the need for sender/recipient authentication by automatically encrypting all inbox-to-inbox communication through a hosted, secure network to more easily comply with industry regulations and safeguard your company’s sensitive information.	AVG® Email Archive Lite Short-term and lower cost solution offers secure archive storage of all emails on a rolling 60-day basis so your employee can search, access and recover emails without the need to contact your IT specialist or IT provider. After 60 days, the emails and information are automatically deleted.