About a year ago, IT execs at Colony Bank were reevaluating the Fitzgerald, Ga.-based bank's email platform. At the time, the bank with 29 branches (including its headquarters) was using an Outlook desktop client to access an Ipswitch Imail Server, technology designed for smaller companies.
"It was time to go with [Microsoft] Exchange or look at other opportunities," recalls Jim Jowers, senior technology officer at the $1.2 billion assets bank. "We didn't want to have two in-house servers to maintain."
To move to Microsoft Exchange and add an additional server would have cost the bank ...