Vertical Wind Managed eMail Solution

OC4 offers a low-cost monthly service, to allow enterprise clients to test, validate, and run email, and other non-core systems on the cloud. OC4 is the only cloud email provider using DOD Top Secrete compliant AES 256 encryption to insure data security.

Named “Vertical Wind”, our offering can act as an extension of the enterprise technology team to accelerate the use of cloud computing for the enterprise. As Vertical Wind often leads to the rapid formation of clouds, OC4 can accelerate cloud
knowledge and adaptation by providing pro-active though leadership, industry trends, and insight into industry best practices. OC4’s Vertical Wind offering can be tailored for a GAP analysis, Proof of Concept, or class of service alternatives.

Our architecture can be applied to an internal corporate enterprise cloud. Our goal is to accelerate Enterprise adoption of cloud computing by leveraging our existing secure capabilities.

Managed eMail Features

Lower Cost of Ownership

Reduce your operational costs of hardware; operating systems and licenses with our cloud based managed email solution.  Most experts estimate the cost of running corporate email is $20 - $35 per user per seat per month for organizations or divisions of 1,000 – 10,000.  This cost includes the hardware, software, and people required to run the system.
Migration of you mail to a cloud-based solution will reduce this costs exponentially allowing you to realize immediate cost savings and improved services.

Advanced Spam Elimination Technology
Spam is an exceedingly large problem for any email system, constituting over 95% of all email messages sent on the Internet. To provide Anti-Spam and Anti-Virus protection for our customers, OC4 has partnered with ProofPoint.
ProofPoint's MLX Engine examines hundreds of thousands of attributes in every email–including message envelope headers and structure, image properties, sender reputation data as well as unstructured content in the body of messages – to block the most spam, image-based spam and phishing attacks, while automatically adapting to new attacks as they appear.

Easy Administration and Management
OC4’s Managed Email solution has been built from the ground up to ensure quick, easy and simple administration and management.

Case Study

Recently OC4 worked with a division of a large company to migrate 8,000 mailboxes.  Highlights of engagement:

1.    POC.  One month to “test” system.  Cost:  $1,000
2.    Migration:  Fixed price.  Completed in 1 weekend.  Cost > $20,000
3.    Monthly Fee.  Over 60% savings vs. estimated average
4.    Turned potential CAPEX (internally managed system) into monthly OPEX
5.    Service Levels: Exceed previous levels. 
6.    Customer Satisfaction: Very High.

For a 5,000 seat email system, we expect savings of $700,000 - $1,000,000 per year.  The reason we are able to deliver these savings is because we started with a blank slate, we innovated, and we harnessed the new utility.  Email is one example: we are seeing similar savings in application delivery across applications in many industries.

For more information and to get a quote for your business please contact us at  or complete our request form.