Hughes launches cloud services on Microsoft platform

Hughes Communications India, Ltd. (HCIL), a leading provider of broadband satellite and managed network services, and a wholly owned subsidiary of Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES) today announced that it has partnered with Microsoft to launch a subscription-based messaging and collaborative service built on Microsoft's Communication Services platform for business customers. 

As a completely integrated communications service, 'Hughes Productivity Services,' will offer end-to-end e-mailing solutions which promotes business messaging and collaboration. This service will eliminate users' needs to invest in hardware, software licenses, security and related management costs by providing a 'pay-per mailbox' Service model and includes hosted versions of Microsoft Exchange,  Sharepoint, and Office Communications Server. Customers will now have a cost-efficient enterprise class mailing solution without the hassle of infrastructure management and support and can rely on the service to deliver features such as active sync mobile devices integration, flexible mail box size, web calendaring facility, remote location archiving, and sender reputation filtering. 

Costs savings for this deployment approach are 80-85% over a premise server installation.  'Hughes Productivity Services' will help customers migrate from an on-premise service, and this can be accomplished by individual users in less than 1 hour. It also enables seamless integration with a company's internal Microsoft network that also allows management of utilizing current IT tools and the provider's portal based management system. 

The Microsoft Communication Services works on a pay- as- you- go and Zero Investment model, thus providing enterprises and SMBs with a rich enterprise-class applications hosting platform without any up-front costs along with significant  productivity  benefits.