Cloud services provider Intermedia announced on Thursday that it now hosts more than 500,000 premium Microsoft Exchange mailboxes.

Intermedia claims to be the first provider in the world to reach this milestone. Though that claim is rather difficult to substantiate, Intermedia has been offering hosted Exchange since 2000, and was one of ten Microsoft partners to offer the Exchange 15 beta in July.

The milestone includes direct customers and partners, and Intermedia says its growth of 40 percent year-over-year is being driven by its channel as well as adoption of its Office in the Cloud offering.

“At a time when the competition continues to commoditize their offerings, we are broadening our services and support, and enabling SMBs to improve how they communicate, collaborate and manage content,” Michael Gold, president, Intermedia said in a statement. “We understand that a customer’s ability to communicate, manage their content and collaborate is vital – and Intermedia offers the cloud services for businesses to do this cost-efficiently, securely and with premium services that not only drive their business forward, but that can be quickly adjusted, keeping up with the ever-changing marketplace. Intermedia’s business-grade cloud services are not ‘one size fit all’ and our control panel offers the control and flexibility every unique business demands.”

In an interview with the WHIR in July at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, Gold said its easy for providers to move their on-premise Exchange business to Intermedia’s private label program, sell it under their own brand, whileproviding the same level of support as an Intermedia partner.

“The economics are substantially better for most of those Exchange providers,” Gold said at the time.

In July, Parallels reported 47 percent growth in its hosted Microsoft Exchange seats year-over-year.Parallels did not disclose how many Exchange seats it hosts.

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