AUSTRALIA, Sydney - 23 April 2007 -
StoreVault, a NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) division, today announced it is
teaming with Azaleos Corporation, a leading provider of managed,
turnkey messaging solutions, to provide small and medium-sized
businesses (SMBs) with the only enterprise-class managed messaging
solution to improve the reliability, availability, and scalability
of Microsoft Exchange Server environments.
The Azaleos OneServer appliance and OneStop managed services offer
unmatched uptime, proactive monitoring by Exchange experts, patch
management, system fixes, and reporting for SMB customers who want
to "set and forget" their Exchange Server environments. The Azaleos
OneServer combined with the StoreVault S500 simplifies storage
system protection, data backup and recovery, and capacity
provisioning. Just as StoreVault simplifies the storage
environment, Azaleos does the same for Exchange with a solution
that delivers uninterrupted messaging, reduction in messaging
expenses and disaster recovery capabilities, while giving customers
full control of their messaging environment. The StoreVault S500
and data protection software is the cornerstone to the OneServer
infrastructure, enabling the Exchange environment to be backed up,
replicated, and restored with next to zero downtime.
Messaging is critical for effective communication in today's
demanding SMB environment. SMB IT generalists are continually
seeking to improve the quality and reliability of their messaging
environments, but most don't have the resources to make Exchange
Server a core competency. In fact, most SMBs are looking for ways
to improve the management and maintenance of Exchange Server.
Furthermore, messaging is a valuable asset for SMBs who require
that their storage be physically located onsite to ensure the
security of their data. Therefore, Exchange hosting, or physically
locating messaging offsite, is not an option for most SMBs.
"Microsoft Exchange is essential to businesses of all sizes," said
Phil Van Etten, CEO, Azaleos. "SMB IT managers face the same
pressures as datacenter operators when solving application
availability issues, including relentless capacity growth, server
uptime, disaster recovery, and compliance regulations. An Azaleos
OneServer combined with a StoreVault meets the budgetary and
reliability needs of smaller firms."
Fortify Software, a leading software security company, needed to
ensure employee access to messaging to support the company's
rapidly expanding business. Fortify employees were often on the
road travelling and needed access to Exchange not only from Outlook
running on their laptops, but also from mobile devices and web
browsers - anytime, anywhere. Given the company's growth rate, the
IT department needed a solution that could scale to meet future
needs while still providing the mobile access its employees needed
today.
"A growing number of SMBs similar to Fortify Software are realising
that hiring experts to manage their mission-critical applications
will increase employee productivity while reducing IT costs," said
Kevin Connell, chief technology officer of Endurics, a value-added
reseller based in Oregon. "A messaging system that acts like a
utility lets Fortify focus on their core business objectives and
maximise their resources. We are seeing more and more requests for
offloading the management and maintenance of Exchange through
managed services from our customers."
"The Azaleos OneServer with the StoreVault S500 is truly the
Ferrari of Exchange solutions - we went from zero to
highly-available messaging in under 60 minutes!" said Jack
Marshall, vice president of operations at Fortify Software.
"Azaleos' high performing, tuned, and robust solution for Microsoft
Exchange has let our quickly growing company eliminate the cost of
messaging server downtime and it has improved employee
productivity. In addition, given that we are a security company
that works with clients on the most critical aspects of their
businesses, we are able to keep messaging content in-house."
The StoreVault S500 provided Fortify Software an enterprise-proven
storage technology platform from network storage leader, NetApp,
which was affordable and easy-to-use. The StoreVault S500 allows
storage to be added or allocated on the fly without disruption to
operations. In addition, the StoreVault S500 enables faster backup
and recovery for a higher degree of data reliability. With a single
purchase, the highly scalable StoreVault S500 guaranteed Fortify
Software the performance, security, scalability, and future
investment protection necessary for their rapidly expanding
company.
"We completely updated our Exchange infrastructure leveraging the
best practices of Microsoft and our trusted Exchange experts," said
Marshall. "We now have a clustered server and network storage
infrastructure that provides a fully integrated, turnkey Exchange
solution. StoreVault and Azaleos provided a powerful formula to
improve the availability, performance, and security of our Exchange
environment, while giving us investment protection for the future
as our business expands. Also, the StoreVault Advanced Protection
Architecture and RAID-DP provided industry-leading disaster
recovery capabilities, allowing our Exchange environment to be
backed up, replicated and restored with next to zero
downtime."
"Time is money for any business, especially SMBs, so it is
important for SMBs to adequately address the stability of their
Exchange environment to focus on IT issues that promote business
profitability," said Sajai Krishnan, general manager of StoreVault.
"Our relationship with Azaleos adds great value to IT generalists
within SMBs who are tasked with taming their Exchange environments.
The combination of Azaleos' services along with the StoreVault
storage solution helps SMBs sleep at night and not worry about
phone calls or surprises related to the Exchange server being
down."
Price and Availability
Azaleos OneServer, including the StoreVault S500 and OneStop
services is available immediately from Azaleos VARs. Pricing is
available directly from Azaleos VARs.
About Azaleos Corporation
Azaleos provides the only enterprise-class managed messaging
solutions that combine a Microsoft Exchange 2003 or Exchange 2007
appliance with 24x7 remote management and maintenance, ensuring
high reliability, availability, and performance for our customers'
Exchange environments. Azaleos is based in Redmond, Washington and
was founded by Exchange experts in 2004. Azaleos is a Microsoft
Gold Certified partner. For more information, visit
www.azaleos.com.
About StoreVault
StoreVault, a NetApp division, is focused on delivering data
storage solutions tailored to the needs of small and medium-sized
businesses. StoreVault combines enterprise-proven technology from
Network Appliance, a world leader in unified storage solutions for
today's data-intensive enterprise, with the scalability,
simplicity, security, and affordability required by SMBs.
Information about StoreVault solutions and resellers is available
at
www.storevault.com.
About Network Appliance
Network Appliance is a world leader in unified storage solutions
for today's data-intensive enterprise. Since its inception in 1992,
Network Appliance has delivered technology, product, and partner
firsts. Information about Network Appliance™ solutions and
services is available at
www.netapp.com/au/.
NetApp is a registered trademark and Network Appliance, StoreVault
and RAID-DP are trademarks of Network Appliance, Inc. in the U.S.
and other countries. All other brands or products are trademarks or
registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be
treated as such.
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