Exchange Hosting Reviews

Crosswood Technology Group have long been a mainstay of businesses who wanted their information safe and secure. The company has used their considerable leverage to protect users of previous iterations of Exchange Server. Until now, however, users of Exchange Server 2010 were left out of the mix.

The company announced recently that they have upgraded their services to be compatible with the newest iteration of Microsoft’s business email powerhouse. This works for all applicable services. Their social network, however, does not fall into that category. It’s gotta be more secure than Facebook though, right?

Like storing stuff? Iomega has announced the StorCenter ix12-300r 2U rackmount networked storage array for small and medium businesses and small enterprise workgroups, departments and distributed/branch offices. This is a dream come true for some of you, as it makes storing Exchange Server 2010 messages a breeze.

Jonathan Huberman, Iomega’s president, said: “The StorCenter ix12-300r [fits] in the market segment between the current Iomega and EMC [CLARiiON] network storage offerings.”

The ix12-300r is intended for file (NAS, CIFS, NFS, AFP, FTP, http/s) and block (SAN, iSCSI and direct-attached storage or DAS) storage, offering unified storage capabilities. This is par for the course for these kinds of drives.

The controller has 2GB of RAM and uses an Intel Core2Duo hyper-threaded dual core processor. They opted against the quad core to keep prices down. Not a bad idea, considering the pricepoint is now a very tasty $4,999. Look for it next week.

Quantum Software Solutions have announced Exchange Server 2010 support for their popular POP3 connector. Their Exchange Connector allows you to seamlessly integrate your existing POP3 mailboxes with any version of Exchange Server(Now that 2010 is added) and even small business server. How does it work? It periodically downloads mail from the POP3 mailboxes and delivers the messages to the appropriate Exchange Server accounts. Here are some bullet points from the company as to what you can do with the service:

• Use Exchange without running your own SMTP server – useful if you don’t have a static IP address, or your ISP won’t allow you to run a server
• Bridge other mail servers with Exchange Server – useful if you want to continue using your existing mail setup while determining if Exchange is the right product for your needs
• Migrate existing POP3 mailboxes to Exchange with ease – useful to ensure that there are no messages left on the POP3 servers when you switch to Exchange

CommVault, a provider in data management solution, on Wednesday announced that its venerable Simpana software now supports Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. This should help ease migrations to this latest Exchange release while enabling customers to easily protect, manage, archive and recover mission-critical data stored in Exchange email repositories. Great news.

“ More than a decade ago, CommVault sat down with Microsoft to map out a strategy for leveraging Windows Server operating systems as the foundation upon which to build innovative, powerful products to manage and protect data,” said Randy De Meno, chief technologist, Windows Product and  Microsoft Partnership for CommVault.

He added, “ Over the years, we have continually worked together to ensure seamless interoperability between our product platforms. By announcing Simpana software support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, CommVault is reinforcing our ongoing commitment to optimizing and enhancing Simpana software while providing our joint customers with a straightforward migration path to Exchange Server 2010.”

Check out CommVault’s website here.