Azaleos and M3TG merge

Announced today:

"Azaleos® Corporation, the managed Microsoft Exchange services company, and M3 Technology Group (M3TG) today announced they have merged their businesses to become the market's leading provider of remotely managed Microsoft Exchange and related services. The combined companies, which will operate under the Azaleos brand, now have the technical support resources as well as East and West coast network operations center necessary to support even the largest organizations..."

This announcement should help Azaleos to expand its unique and quite interesting business model that combines the cost savings of hosting with the ability to retain infrastructure on-premise. Many decision makers continue to resist the notion of hosting their email and related services, instead preferring to keep everything behind the firewall. The Azaleos model allows them to do just that, while realizing the benefits of using third-party specialists to keep things up and running. This is another form of a "hybrid" hosted model that a growing number of organizations are considering.