Exchange Server 2007 Partners: Back-up and Archive

C2C offers email archiving and management solutions which reduce risk, optimize performance and minimize compliance issues for over three million users at more than 2,000 organizations world-wide. Based on their in depth understanding of message management, C2C developed its award-winning Archive One suite to help organizations comply with industry regulations and minimize mailbox size. Industry research shows that in 2006, the average corporate email user will send and receive nearly 90 emails a day, the equivalent of 1.5 MB per day of storage. In two years, this number is predicted to rise to over 3 MB per day, per user. In response to the growing need among enterprises for a solution to increasingly complex message management issues, Archive One offers a comprehensive solution to manage email archiving, search and discovery and mailbox capacity. The award-winning Archive One solution helps organizations comply with industry regulations and minimize mailbox size. Archive One technology is built on a proprietary advanced analytical search and policy enforcement engine, made up of nearly 50 analysis criteria used throughout the product line to centralize, automate and accelerate tasks which reduce risk associated with email and improve system usage. The Company, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, supports organizations in the government, manufacturing, finance, education and healthcare industries, including Fortune 1000 companies. Established in 1992, C2C is a privately held company with US offices in Springfield and Westboro, Mass; and Reading, Berkshire in the UK. C2C was awarded the Customer Experience Award, at the 2006 Microsoft Partner Program Awards, for delivering superior customer service by demonstrating its understanding of its customer’s needs. For more information about the Company, visit www.c2c.com.

CA Intelligent Storage and Information Management solutions enable you to proactively simplify, securely manage and to protect Microsoft Exchange information and storage assets while optimally aligning with your business objectives. The key is our management software — it intelligently manages your Exchange assets in concert with the needs of your business. Our Information Management solutions for Exchange enable you to effectively manage your most rapidly growing corporate information store, your email and instant messages. Through a comprehensive set of modules that address management, archival and retention, discovery and compliance, CA can help you to address the compliance needs of your business while managing email across multiple email applications. Our Resource Management and Recovery Management solutions help you create better disaster recovery plans, lower storage-related costs and manage information through all stages of its lifecycle. Together these centralized information, recovery and resource management products will enable customers to optimize Exchange application availability, data protection, email archiving, compliance and electronic data discovery across large Exchange environments.

CommVault provides unified enterprise data-management solutions to ensure high-performance data protection, archiving, compliance/content management and simplified management of complex storage networks. The company’s focus is to deliver simple, fast, and scalable products that fit seamlessly into SAN-, NAS- or LAN-based infrastructures. The CommVault solution, based on the CommVault Common Technology Engine, integrates application integrated Backup and Recovery, data migration (HSM), Snapshot and VSS management, high availability, storage resource, and SAN management software solutions into 1 Unified Data Management product. Customers can deploy individual products or seamlessly integrate new elements into an existing CommVault solution at a fraction of the time, effort, and money that would be required to deploy separate products. CommVault Backup and Recovery for Exchange offers total protection of an Exchange Server, Storage Group, Priv, Mailbox, Folder and/or Message. CommVault offers fast granular restores of Exchange mailboxes, folders and messages. This includes restoring all security properties associated with the message(s). CommVault can also assist and accelerate upgrades of Exchange information by restoring messages/folders/mailboxes from older versions of Exchange to newer (Exchange 5.5 or Exchange 2000 to Exchange Server 2003 or E-12). This restore across Exchange revisions enables customers to easily remain within compliance regulations. CommVault’s Single Unified solution easily bridges other portions of Windows that often work with Exchange. CommVault’s Active Directory, File System agent and 1-Touch System Recovery are fused with CommVault’s Exchange capability. This enables full recovery of an entire Exchange server, even in the event of a catastrophic failure. The CommVault Active Directory agent will even recreate the user within Active Directory if a mailbox recovery was performed on a user accidentally deleted from Active Directory.

The EMC-Microsoft partnership is built on a long history of integrating best in class systems, software and services to help customers realize the benefits of Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) for Microsoft environments. EMC’s Microsoft Practice provides end-to-end professional services (strategy, design and implementation) enabling you to optimize Exchange 2007, Active Directory and Windows Server deployments, upgrades and migrations. Additionally, EMC’s market leading storage systems and software along with documented best practices, provide proven infrastructure for Exchange 2007 that delivers performance, availability, protection and compliance capabilities. EMC solutions for Exchange Back-up, Recovery and Archiving combine advanced software and integrated active archiving tools with high-performance disk based platforms, allowing you to meet stringent service-level requirements. Recover Exchange databases or individual mailboxes within minutes—instead of hours or even days.

Exclaimer Mail Archiver: With a very quick and simple wizard-driven installation and no changes required to your Exchange environment, Exclaimer Mail Archiver stores your Exchange messages in SQL databases that automatically scale to meet your business needs. Using Exchange’s Message Journaling feature, or the Exclaimer Mail Utilities Message Journaling module, messages passing through your Exchange server are temporarily stored in one or more Journal mailboxes before being transferred to your SQL server for secure storage. Using the offline message importer module, you can also copy the contents of .PST files and existing mailboxes directly into the archive. Using the powerful Windows or Web client applications end users and administrators can instantly locate and retrieve messages in the archive subject to their configured permissions. Storing all parts of the message provides the ability to perform deep forensic analysis and totally accurate message retrieval and reconstruction, thus ensuring complete legal compliance. Support for message stubbing and single instance storage of attachments allows your Exchange and archive storage requirements to be dramatically reduced.

GFI MailArchiver for Exchange is an easy-to-use corporate email archiving solution that enables you to archive all internal and external mail into one or multiple SQL databases, heavily reducing reliance on PST files. Now you can provide users with easy, centralized access to past emails via a web-based search interface and the ability to quickly restore emails through a OneClick Restore process. GFI MailArchiver aids your company in fulfilling regulatory email storage requirements (such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act). GFI MailArchiver leverages the journaling feature of Exchange Server 2007, providing unparalleled scalability and reliability at a competitive cost.

HP and its strategic partners offer a broad, rich, and integrated portfolio (servers, storage, PC's, mobile clients, software and services) of proven Microsoft Exchange solutions. HP Exchange services provide global consulting and support for Microsoft infrastructure needs -- Windows 2003, Active Directory, and Exchange Server 2007 - delivered by the recognized Prime Integrator for Microsoft infrastructure solutions. Our full life-cycle services are tailored to meet your objectives. We offer end-to-end support - including services such as environment reviews, rapid pilot, planning and design, migration, systems integration, deployment, hosting, management, outsourcing, and high availability for mission-critical environments. HP Microsoft solutions, services and methodologies have been tested and proven in thousands of customer environments, from small businesses to the largest global enterprises. HP has been the partner of choice for Microsoft Exchange services since it was introduced in 1995, and is the 2005 Microsoft Technology and Services Partner of the Year. The Microsoft and HP partnership is one of the oldest of its kind in the industry with 20 years of combined marketplace leadership. Our focus on innovation and synchronization, our technical expertise and track record, and stability-driven approach enable us to offer proven Frontline Innovation for the way you run your business, for the way you work and for the way you experience technology.

For today's messaging administrator, the challenge is clearer than ever; support the business goals of the enterprise by ensuring the security, accessibility and flow of information through Exchange Server. Anything that disrupts this security, accessibility and flow creates unplanned downtime, and the potential for data loss. And no matter what the cause, when Exchange and the vital business information it holds isn't available, every minute down costs your organization money. When disruptions do occur, IT departments need to get the enterprise restarted and restored to the 'moment before' state as rapidly as possible, without risk of repeating the same failure. That's why you need a backup and recovery strategy that not only protects your data minute by minute, ,but also gets your E-mail system back up and running as quickly as possible. Lucid8's DigiVault meets this vital need by protecting your invaluable corporate information 24x7x365 by continuously backing up email, scheduling, contacts, and other Exchange related data changes as they occur. DigiVault is easy to install, setup, and use and represents a major improvement over traditional backup, replication, and snapshot systems. Should a disaster strike, DigiVault's SingleTouch Recovery for Exchange allows the administrator to recover the database just prior to the failure event and restore email operations in record time. It's as close to having an 'it never happened' button in your data recovery system as you can get. DigiVault's, companion product "DigiScope for Exchange is a simple, yet powerful tool for Mailbox, Folder and Item Level e-Discovery and Recovery directly from Microsoft® Exchange Server backups, un-mounted Information Store Databases (EDB and STM files). With over 10 years of Exchange disaster prevention, optimization, protection and recovery experience, Lucid8 designed DigiScope to help email, network, and help desk administrators better serve their internal clients.

Mimosa NearPoint™ for Microsoft® Exchange Server is the industry’s leading information management solution for Microsoft Exchange. NearPoint supports Exchange 2007 and will extend Exchange 2007 functionality in the key areas of archival, recovery and mailbox management. NearPoint unifies archival, eDiscovery, storage management, fine-grained and immediate recovery, and user self-service access to all historical e-mail. NearPoint is an application-intelligent solution providing deep integration with Exchange and Outlook. It is based on Microsoft technologies, runs on standard Windows Server™ hardware. Administrators configure policies and perform immediate restore using the standard Microsoft Management Console. NearPoint provides end-users and auditors with instant search and access to e-mail that has been protected and archived via a standard Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Web Access (OWA) user interface. NearPoint extends Exchange 2007 with: 1.) Enterprise enabled search and discovery and automated retention and disposition of all email records for regulatory compliance and corporate governance. 2.) Continuous data protection based on Exchange log files with no restrictions on Storage Groups or Mailbox Stores. 3.) Immediate recovery for Exchange data of any scope, from complete information stores to mailboxes, or individual messages. 4.) Storage optimization for Exchange with features to manage both online storage and offline storage, supporting unlimited mailbox capacity for business end users.

SnapManager for Microsoft Exchange enables Exchange and storage administrators to simplify data management utilizing the powerful capabilities of NetApp storage systems. It automates and simplifies the complex, manual, and time-consuming processes associated with the backup, restore, and recovery of Exchange mail databases. SME leverages the industry-leading capabilities of NetApp Snapshot technology to execute full backups and restores in just seconds. Extremely fast backups are executed without bringing Exchange databases/mailboxes offline, and are done without any significant performance degradation. NetApp Snapshot technology enables organizations to efficiently store more than 250 copies of Exchange data, enabling much more granular restores based on specific points in time.

NSI offers the leading Exchange data protection and availability solutions designed exclusively for this most critical business application. Based on patented and proven Double-Take® technology, and backed by over 10 years of experience in designing and delivering enterprise-class disaster recovery solutions and services, our Exchange solutions allow for simple and rapid deployment for assured protection of your e-mail data and systems. Augment intermittent backup with continuous replication. Tape backup is a necessity for long-term archival, however do you want to be recovering your Exchange database from yesterday's backup? Consider the amount of e-mail processed throughout the course of the day and you will quickly see why tape backup is not a viable solution for recovery from failures and outages. With Double-Take solutions for Microsoft Exchange, your most current Exchange data will be available at any time, day or night, for immediate recovery or seamless failover, reducing potential downtime to minutes or even seconds. Double-Take replicates changes to Exchange data continuously as they occur, at the byte level rather than the full file or block level. You get up-to-the-second Exchange data protection with maximum performance and minimal use of your network and system resources. Protect yourself from everything – outages to disasters. This solution allows you to implement the appropriate level of protection with a configuration that fits your environment. With enterprise-class features to fully support optimal LAN and WAN replication, Exclusive – Double-Take Application Manager for Exchange. Taking the guesswork and error-prone manual setup out of the equation, the Double-Take Application Manager for Exchange automates and simplifies the configuration of complete disaster recovery and availability protection for your entire Exchange environment.

Livelink ECM – Email Management reduces costs by offloading email content to a secure storage environment, optimizing email server performance and reducing server space consumption. Livelink ECM – Email Management ensures scalability for the growing enterprise—proven up to terabytes of data and millions of documents. The solution enables companies to archive email from Exchange servers, and manage it according to centralized record policies—without impacting business processes or changing the way that users are accustomed to working with email. Livelink ECM – Email Management enables users to archive email interactively (with a single click from the Outlook UI) or automatically, according to pre-configured criteria such as age, size, and so on.

Quest Archive Manager provides everything you need to capture, index and store your messaging data. Archive Manager helps organizations control data volume with single instancing of messaging and attachments, reducing the cost & time associated with storage management and producing evidence for compliance purposes. Through secure information sharing and our XML WebServices & RSS integration options, Archive Manager empowers organizations to access and leverage the knowledge locked up in e-mail. Archive Manager supports multiple messaging systems including Exchange and GroupWise. Provides user access to messaging data via Outlook, Outlook Web Access & BlackBerry, with no client side installation. Access permissions can be configured quickly and easily using our flexible security model. As a key component of Quest Intelligent Messaging Solutions, realize the potential of your corporate messaging infrastructure with Quest Intelligent Messaging. Quest Intelligent Messaging Solutions, control costs, decrease complexity and reduce the risk of compliance in your corporate messaging infrastructure. Quest offers a total solution, one which doesn’t impact your bandwidth, is simple to deploy, and intuitive to use. From migration, to high availability, to messaging information management, Quest Intelligent Messaging is the answer.

Sonasoft provides an integrated backup/recovery and replication solution Microsoft Exchange Server. Typically, customers have to buy multiple solutions from different vendors to get similar capability. Also, it would cost three to four times more to get comparable functionality offered by Sonasoft’s SonaSafe solution. The key differentiators are: No data loss - Automated one-click rapid recovery to the point of failure; Reliable replication – no distance limitation, can be anywhere in the world; Ability to recover even single mail messages with just point and click. SonaSafe for Exchange server supports Exchange 2000, 2003 and 2007 versions. SonaSafe for Exchange server standby solution provides mailbox level replication functionality and can be used to migrate from Exchange 2000 or 2003 to Exchange 2007.

Symantec Backup Exec(tm) 11d for Windows(r) Servers is the gold standard in Windows data recovery, providing continuous, cost-effective, high-performance, and certified disk-to-disk-to-tape backup and recovery. Now extending continuous protection to Microsoft(r) Exchange and SQL Server in addition to file servers and workstations, Backup Exec eliminates daily backups and provides point-in-time recovery. Recover critical data in seconds with new, improved protection for Microsoft applications. Individual Exchange messages, folders, and mailboxes can be recovered in seconds-without mailbox backups. This reduces the time and resources needed for backup and speeds up recovery. For Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server, Backup Exec 11d enables single-document recovery of servers, as well as the ability to recover SQL Server 2005 snapshots in seconds. It also introduces protection and recovery for IBM(r) DB2(r), Oracle(r) RAC, and Oracle RMAN. Symantec Enterprise Vault(tm) software provides a flexible platform for email archiving, discovery, file system archiving, Instant Messaging archiving, SharePoint and archiving of other collaborative environments-while helping to reduce storage costs and simplifying management. Powerful search and ediscovery capabilities are complemented by specialized client applications for corporate governance, compliance, risk management, and legal discovery. Enterprise Vault manages content via automated, policy-controlled archiving to online stores for active retention and seamless retrieval of information. Implementing Enterprise Vault helps you reduce your business and IT risks surrounding: Application Storage Management; Compliance Retention & ediscovery; Records Management; Email Backup & Storage; Upgrade, Migration & Consolidation.

AutoArchive Manager allows administrators to centrally manage auto-archive settings on mailbox folders on Exchange Server 2007, 2003, and 2000. The administrator can configure auto archive settings on folders within individual mailboxes or within groups of mailboxes. Settings can be listed and changed manually or automatically for any number of mailbox folders. AutoArchive Manager is the perfect solution for implementing and maintaining an archiving strategy on all mailbox folders according to a defined policy. Symprex also offers a number of other software add-on solutions for Exchange Server to improve administration, compliance and collaboration. Our products cover areas such as automatic signatures and disclaimers on all e-mails merged with contact information from Active Directory, folder permissions management and reporting on mailboxes and public folders, managing out-of-office settings and messages for users and groups, spam filtering, group calendaring and resource booking for Outlook and OWA, and more.

Trinity Consulting uses a variety of messaging data archiving tools to craft the correct solution for the storage and compliance needs of any size organization. Our service offering provides a flexible enterprise archiving framework to provide rapid discovery of messaging data both to meet business requirements, such as statutory and regulatory compliance [Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA], as well as to increase the overall efficiency of your existing storage solution from a spatial and performance standpoint. Our offering provides disaster recovery (DR) solutions that are fully integrated with Windows Server 2003 Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS). We assist your organization in proper planning and design of a disaster backup and recovery solution reducing the amount of potential downtime in the event of failure, enabling you to set and meet stringent service level goals for your organizations.

ZANTAZ EAS enables organizations to create an efficient, searchable archive for the retention, management and control of email, ensuring cost-effective storage optimization. It helps companies comply with retention and supervision regulations, centrally manage PST files and efficiently migrate older Exchange versions or Domino to Exchange 2007.