Bangkok--Oct 1--PC & Associates Consulting
EMC Express Solution for E-Mail Helps Growing Businesses Improve Productivity With Tiered Storage and Automated Mailbox Management EMC Express Solution for E-Mail
EMC Corporation, the world leader in information storage and management, today announced a simple yet powerful solution to help IT organizations drive down the cost and increase the productivity of their Microsoft Exchange Server e-mail environments. The new EMC Express Solution for E-Mail is the first in a series of EMC Express Solutions, which include packaged hardware, software and services that leverage EMC’s expertise in information lifecycle management (ILM) and target the business needs of small- to medium-sized companies.
Using automated policy management software, the EMC Express Solution for E-Mail helps organizations with hundreds to several thousands of e-mail users to consolidate and manage years of e-mail messages on a single networked storage system. By cost-effectively expanding mailbox limits, end-user productivity improves while Microsoft Exchange storage total cost of ownership is reduced by up to 30%.
The solution incorporates:
EMC CLARiiON mid-tiered networked storage with Fibre Channel drives, ATA drives and replication software
EMC Legato EmailXtender Archive Edition software to expand user mailbox size while moving and compressing aged e-mail to lower-cost drives
EMC Replication Manager/SE (RM/SE) software that automates CLARiiON-based replication management to accelerate backup and recovery time
EMC Exchange Accelerator Service that offers customers fast, low-risk storage design and deployment for Microsoft Exchange Server environments. The service is offered by EMC Technology Solutions and Authorized Services Network partners.
Additionally, EMC will offer customers the opportunity to observe up-and-running solutions at Microsoft Technical Centers (MTCs) beginning in late 2004. The program will enable customers and partners to work with live demos and scope out hardware and software configurations at six locations in North America and Europe.
“The EMC Express Solution for E-Mail helps midsized organizations maximize the benefits of Microsoft Exchange Server by enabling the highest levels of availability and protection.” หaid Kim Akers, senior director in the Exchange Server Marketing at Microsoft Corp. “Mid-sized organizations with budget limitations can now purchase ready-made solutions from EMC and their partners with built-in backup and recovery as well as a limitless mailbox.”
New Solution Automates Customer E-mail
Hartz Mountain Industries, one of the largest private owners of commercial real estate in the U.S. based in Secaucus, New Jersey, recognized the need to create automated archival and retention of its critical business information, and e-mail represents a key component. Hartz Mountain implemented the EMC Express Solution for E-Mail to better manage, archive and protect e-mail for its users. MTI Technology, an EMC Velocity partner and member of the Authorized Services Network, delivered the solution.
Jeremy Kahn, Assistant Vice President of Information Technology, Hartz Mountain Industries Inc, said, “E-mail represents the largest data creator out of all of our applications, and EMC’s Express Solution for E-mail automatically captures that data, mitigating the risk of lost e-mails. The solution also eliminates PST files and mailbox size limitations, making our mailboxes lighter and thinner for better performance. Automated policies enable us to know what needs to be retained and deleted, helping us manage the e-mail lifecycle. This is mission critical when responding to legal discovery and litigation requests.”
Partner-Enabled EMC Express Solutions
EMC Express Solution for E-mail is available from partners including Avnet Partner Solutions, Dimension Data, MTI Technology, Pomeroy IT Solutions, Inc. and SARCOM through a new simplified configuration wizard that selects proven e-mail solution configurations from a database in EMC’s Channel Express quotation and ordering system. EMC partners can now be more accurate and responsive to customers’ requests for e-mail solution proposals. Avnet
Partner Solutions will make this new solution available online for its resellers on a worldwide basis through its IT DemoCentral demonstration portal.
David Goulden, EMC’s Executive Vice President of Customer Operations, said, “Growing businesses managing Microsoft Exchange environments have a unique set of challenges. They face similar management headaches and growth issues as the largest IT departments, but in many cases without a large staff or budget available. This new solution bridges that gap, bringing automated management, tiered storage and integrated archiving to midsized users in a simple, cost-effective offering they can implement today.”
Nancy Hurley, Sr. Analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, said, “EMC has proven they are listening to the needs of the mid-market by rolling out integrated solutions. With competitive pricing, EMC Express Solution for E-mail delivers midsized organizations a great package of tiered storage and e-mail management in a turn key solution, while making it easier for partners to configure and sell EMC solutions. There’s no question that this kind of bundled solution is exactly what the mid-market needs to address the pain points associated with managing e-mail.”
About EMC
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world leader in products, services and solutions for information storage and management that help organizations extract the maximum value from their information, at the lowest total cost, across every point in the information lifecycle. Information about EMC’s products and services can be found at www.EMC.com.
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