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Microsoft unveils Exchange Server 2010 for Indian enterprises
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Customers can realize better productivity and efficiency, and cost savings up to 70 percent
'Payback in less than 6 months' - Forrester Study
November 10, 2009
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INDIA, New Delhi, November 10, 2009 — Microsoft today announced
the launch of its next generation e-mail messaging solution, Exchange Server 2010
to help businesses reduce costs, protect communications and delight e-mail users.
Enhancements in Exchange 2010
- Reduced Disk IO: 90% reduction from Exchange 2003, 70% from
Exchange 2007, improving performance significantly.
- Broad Storage Options: Exchange 2010 new options help administrators
to provide larger mailboxes at lower cost without sacrificing system availability.
- Resiliency: Uses continuous replication and combines on-site
and off-site data replication of up to 16 database copies to provide automatic recovery
from a variety of failures.
- SMS Sync: Users can send and receive SMS messages from Outlook
and Outlook Web Access.
- Block/Allow List: Admins can set device policies based on device
type or user, reducing
- Voice Mail Preview: Speech-to-text translation allows users
to read the contents of audio recordings.
- Browser Support: Internet Explorer 7+, Safari 3+, and Firefox
3+ all provide premium user experience.
- Instant Messaging: Users can now send IMs from OWA, leveraging
OCS or Microsoft Live Messenger.
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 incorporates many features aimed at web and online
services like database availability groups, which automate database-level disaster
recovery; online mailbox moves, which give users access when mailboxes are moved;
and new management tools, including role-based access control. According to a commissioned
study of early adopters of Exchange 2010 conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf
of Microsoft Corp., customers can see a payback period of less than six months
when upgrading to Exchange Server 2010.
“Within this challenging environment, Exchange 2010 delivers, first by delighting
end users, making them more productive and reducing costs. With Exchange Server
2010 customers can report cost savings of up to 70 percent thanks to a simplified
high-availability model and support for lower-cost storage. Customers can also benefit
from productivity gains of more than 20 percent with a universal inbox that delivers
e-mail, voice mail, instant messaging and text messaging consistently across virtually
any device,” said, Mr. Sanjay Manchanda, Director, Microsoft Business Division.
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Exchange 2010 is available anywhere via Outlook – on the PC, phone, or browser and
delivers great innovation for the end user with new capabilities, including Voice
Mail Preview, SMS Text Messaging, MailTips, Conversation View, Call Answering Rules
and more. Exchange 2010 delivers by helping customers protect their communications,
giving IT the ability to encrypt messages based on sender, receiver or even the
content of the message and attachments. With the release of Forefront Protection
for Exchange, IT can also add an additional layer of security on top of what is
built-in to Exchange 2010.
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Further, Forrester Consulting has also found that organizations can realize benefits
in the form of cost avoidance of storage, reduced cost of high availability, cost
avoidance in voicemail, savings in backup systems, fewer help desk calls, cost avoidance
of mobility, enhanced communication security, and simplified compliance and legal
discovery.
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Commenting on Exchange Server 2010’s enhanced storage capabilities, Mr. Surajit
Sen, Director Marketing, Channels and Alliances, NetApp India, said,
“Depending on the way customers design their Exchange Server 2010 deployments with
NetApp, customers can expect to see more than 35 percent cost savings due to better
storage efficiencies. And that’s huge savings in today’s environment of doing more
with less! Not only this, tight integration of NetApp with Exchange Server 2010
can also provide users with large, low-cost mailboxes with minimal administrative
overheads.”
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“This release marks a significant step in our ongoing efforts to fully embrace software-plus-services.
Just last week, we announced our amazing progress toward helping organizations efficiently
manage email by moving all or some of their users to the cloud. Exchange Online
as part of the Microsoft Online Services is now available in India to help enterprises
and small and medium sized businesses reduce costs and enhance productivity”,
added Mr. Manchanda.
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According to a report by Frost & Sullivan on Unified Communications market
in India, Exchange Server has more 56% of market share in business email and communications
in India and a nearly $2B business for Microsoft globally
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About Microsoft Online Services:
Microsoft’s S+S – Momentum in India: Microsoft is committed to delivering
the power of choice to customers and partners in India, through technology solutions
that leverage a software plus services approach. Some recent announcements in this
context have been
- Private and public cloud infrastructure by Reliance for enterprises and SMBs, on
the Microsoft platform
- Hosted CRM in India with Net4India
- In-built, free service called My Phone that offers online storage to back up all
contacts and phone information in Windows Mobile 6.5
- Hosted Email and Collaboration solutions in partnership with airtel and BSNL
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About Microsoft India
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (NASDAQ "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software for
personal and business computing. The company offers a wide range of products and
services designed to empower people through great software - any time, any place
and on any device. Microsoft Corporation (India) Private Ltd is a subsidiary of
Microsoft Corporation, USA. It has had a presence in India since 1990 and currently
has offices in 13 cities - Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore,
Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Kochi, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi and Pune.
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