WINTER HAVEN, FLA. (June 4, 2009) — Ford Models, (fordmodels.com) the world’s top modeling-management company, selected Elephant Outlook (elephantoutlook.com) as the core vendor for its enterprise cloud computing strategy.

Elephant provides email messaging, collaboration, policy and compliance services to Ford Models. With Elephant, employees securely access email messages, contacts, tasks and calendars in real-time, whether in the office or on location.

We expect the move to cloud computing across the enterprise to deliver a significant reduction in IT costs while allowing us to better support our global, highly mobile clientele, talent and workforce with secure, confidential solutions.

Elephant’s experience in this space, and their ability to work closely with us to coordinate a rapid implementation, has been a huge help in realizing our vision, said Eric Singleton, CIO/CTO of Ford.

Elephant helped develop and implement Ford’s email security and compliance policy, providing a proprietary searchable archiving solution to meet the modeling firm’s retention and compliance requirements.
According to industry studies, the cost of running Microsoft Exchange internally runs in excess of $50 per month per mailbox, excluding the cost of compliance. Elephant’s hosted email and compliance services are a fraction of these costs and unmatched in the industry. With Elephant, Ford also eliminated the need for upfront investments in infrastructure.

Most importantly to Ford, the implementation was seamless. “Once the decision was made, the timeframe from migration planning to actual implementation took less than two weeks. Elephant understood completely the architectural blueprint we created and were instrumental in its execution. They have been a great company to do business with – and are experts in their field, they treat you like family,” said Alan Mariotti, Ford’s VP of Enterprise IT, Process, and Security.

Ingram Leedy, Elephant’s CEO said, We get really excited about helping people solve their problems. When that happens, we earn their trust and their business.

About Elephant Outlook

Elephant Outlook (www.elephantoutlook.com) is a leading email service provider and security compliance expert, serving public and private companies in financial services and healthcare along with government agencies. Elephant Outlook’s emphasis on security has earned it a high degree of trust from its clients, which include national governments, the U.S. Department of Defense, national security contractors, municipalities, and law enforcement agencies, all with significant availability, security and compliance requirements.

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