Exchange Server 2007 Partners: Storage

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’s Single Unified solution becomes the heart of an organization’s storage management capability for Windows Server and Exchange. CommVault’s transparent ability to leverage VSS in a consistent fashion, REGARDLESS of what type of server hardware is hosting Exchange enables CommVault to be “The Generic VSS Requestor” for all Exchange Server 2003 and E-12 environments. CommVault’s Quick Recovery (“QR”) application enables the enterprise to stage immediate fail-over environments, dramatically reducing down-time in the event of a server failure.

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 solution for Exchange management allows you to improve control of your infrastructure investments with a centralized storage architecture and software management tools.

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.

IBM is a market leader in the storage industry. Innovative technology, open standards, excellent performance, a broad portfolio of storage proven software, hardware and solutions offerings - all backed by IBM with its recognized e-business on demand® leadership are just a few of the reasons why you should consider IBM storage offerings. And our storage is an ideal fit in a Microsoft environment. Our ESRP and Simple SAN solutions help to complete SMB or enterprise IT implementations. We offer IBM storage equipment at Microsoft's Enterprise Engineering Center (EEC) for customer testing and also participate in the SQL Server 2005 Always On program. IBM System Storage offerings can help address your information management needs, enabling you to optimize your IT infrastructure, leverage your business data effectively to innovate and create customer value, mitigate business risk and enable business flexibility. The performance and availability of your storage environment can enhance your business processes and improve your total cost of ownership. That's where IBM comes in: Compare the breadth of our storage software, hardware and solutions offerings. Compare our technology. Compare our prices. Compare our IT Services and support offered. Compare our financing options. Compare our quality, reliability and dependability. We can help you handle the challenges that your network or company as a whole encounters. With IBM, you get some of the best storage products, technologies, services and solutions in the industry.

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.

Double-Take protects data and applications such as Exchange and SQL Server enabling our customers to replicate and protect mission-critical data that resides throughout their enterprise. It combines continuous real-time backup and automatic failover capabilities for disaster recovery, high availability, and centralized backup. Double-Take is Microsoft Windows 2000 and 2003 certified at all levels, one of the few replication products to have achieved this level of certification. It delivers better protection than many hardware-based solutions, and it costs tens of thousands less. Double-Take Benefits: • Real-Time Data Protection Replicates continuously at the byte level over any shared or private IP-based LAN, WAN or SAN, ensuring that changed data is protected and can be quickly restored at all times • Application Agnostic Works with your existing hardware to protect applications such as Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle and SharePoint • Continuous Data Protection Guarantees business continuity and high availability by restoring access to data in minutes with failover capabilities to maintain a seamless working environment • Easily Installed and Maintained Allows companies of any size looking for data protection solutions to install and maintain Double-Take • Cost Effective Provides the best possible protection at the lowest cost with an accelerated return on investment - paying for itself within months.

Quest Intelligent Messaging Solutions address the difficulty Exchange administrators have balancing an organization’s email storage requirements - compliance policies, performance requirements, and end-users’ demands for more storage. Ensure you have all your storage requirements covered with the following Quest Intelligent Messaging tools: Quest Archive Manager controls data volumes, reduces the cost associated with storage management and quickly produces evidence for compliance purposes. Archive Manager provides everything you need to capture, index and store your messaging data. With Quest MessageStats™ measure e-mail traffic, report on policy compliance, defend SLAs, trend capacity growth to ensure sufficient capacity, and assess Exchange migration readiness. MessageStats provides Microsoft Exchange reporting and analysis to assist IT managers, Exchange administrators, and business users. Finally with Quest Recovery Manager for Exchange, organizations can reduce the cost of e-discovery in addition to providing end users with message-level data recovery services. Recovery Manager enables individual message-level items, including e-mails, appointments, tasks, contacts and attachments, to be restored from regular Exchange backups and un-mounted .edb information stores without setting up a dedicated Exchange recovery server. Quest Intelligent Messaging, controls costs, decreases complexity and reduces 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. Realize the potential of your corporate messaging infrastructure with Quest Intelligent Messaging Solutions.

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 Ghost(tm) Solution Suite 2.0: Symantec Ghost(tm) Solution Suite is a proven, trusted and affordable solution for imaging, deployment, and management of systems with over 10 years of industry-leading expertise. Ghost provides file and sector-based imaging, OS migration, software distribution, PC "personality" migration (user data, settings and profiles), hardware and software inventory, and secure system retirement. It helps reduce information technology costs and assists with maintaining a consistent and compliant desktop and server environment by streamlining and automating IT tasks from acquisition to disposal. Ghost's central management console makes it easy to ensure a well managed and protected Windows(r) environment.

Availability, fault tolerance, and performance are all key factors when deploying Exchange. Trinity Consulting has extensive expertise in storage design for enterprise deployments of Exchange in SAN and DAS deployments. We walk you through the storage solutions/options, help you consider them in light of your business need, and assist you in selecting the configuration right for your organization. This service is presented in several formats depending on the deployment stage of Exchange Server - Storage Requirements & Planning: Trinity Consulting performs extensive requirements and planning exercises to accurately calculate disk subsystem input/output (I/O) requirements for your messaging environment whether it is storage area network (SAN) or direct attached storage (DAS). We use actual historical environmental data in conjunction with theoretical design criteria and our many years of experience designing storage in a vast array of clients with varying degrees of complexity. This ensures your storage solution meets your current and projected needs. Performance Assessment & Analysis: Trinity Consulting’s messaging server Performance Assessment and Analysis service takes a close look at each component from the application to the storage drivers to the physical disks themselves. Our years of extensive experience with disk performance analysis ensure you have to best solution in place to achieve the perfect balance of cost, availability and reliability without sacrificing performance. Storage Design & Performance Testing: Trinity helps you select the right storage solution for your messaging server and goes to great lengths to validate the performance of that solution prior to implementation. We perform extensive disk subsystem input/output (I/O) testing to ensure the solution not only meets today’s need, but will scale out to accommodate future growth.

Xiotech is committed to providing easy to manage storage solutions that meet the needs of today’s businesses. The Magnitude 3D® 3000 family provides an easy to use, flexible, and scalable storage platform for Microsoft Exchange deployments. Application VDisk cache and VDisk prioritization enable you to tune the performance of your Exchange storage environment to meet the changing needs of your organization. With application VDisk cache, transactional applications on Magnitude 3D 3000 do not contend for cache resources with other applications that do not require cache. VDisk prioritization enables you to specify which applications receive service first. These are just two ways Xiotech helps your business adapt to remain competitive in today’s dynamic marketplace. The ability to scale storage simply and our Exchange expertise are further exemplified through membership in the Exchange Solution Reviewed Program (ESRP), with submissions showcasing multiple user workloads. DataScale™ SP is Xiotech’s Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) provider that coordinates the creation of online and application-consistent backups from Magnitude 3D 3000 storage volumes. DataScale SP integrates seamlessly with VSS and supports backup applications from a wide variety of vendors for maximum compatibility with your backup environment.