Microsoft Hosted Exchange Security and Archiving
July 6, 2008
I lost track of Microsoft’s 2005 acquisition, FrontBridge. The company, as you may recall, was a provider of comprehensive secure messaging services. FrontBridge’s “Total Message Management” services ensure the security, compliance and continuity of electronic messages. The system provided managed services for email and instant message archiving, spam filtering, virus scanning, encrypted email, policy enforcement and disaster recovery.
I had in my files a schematic that shows the FrontBridge architecture, which remains largely intact within the hosted Exchange service.
With search vendors morphing into eDiscovery, you may want to update your links to Microsoft’s Exchange Hosted Services, where FrontBridge plays a role. You can find the start page here. At the time of the acquisition, I understood that FrontBridge would be a Microsoft subsidiary. By 2006, FrontBridge became part of the Exchange product. The original 2006 pricing for email and message filtering was pegged at at $1.75 per user, per month; Archiving at $17.25 per user, per month with an unlimited retention period and 3.6 gigabytes of storage; Continuity at $2.50 per user, per month; and Encryption at $1.90 per user, per month. I am not sure how the pricing operates as Microsoft evolves its hosted services.
As you try to determine the value of licensing a third-party secure messaging service or use the hosted Exchange solution, you may find the diagram useful in getting your bearings.
Stephen Arnold, July 6, 2008
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