Happy New Year from Azaleos, and best wishes for 2007!

In this issue:

• Azaleos adds over 10,000 e-mail users to OneStop Services in 2006
• Azaleos begins international expansion into Canada, South America, Europe, and Asia
• History of Azaleos published in Redmond Channel Partner magazine
• Microsoft Exchange Cost Calculator made available on www.azaleos.com
• Azaleos V2 releases Oct 23rd, adding rich functionality for E-Mail Archiving, Monitoring, Reporting, Remote Mgmt, and Disaster Recovery – and preparing our customers for Exchange 2007
• Welcome to our newest customers: Coinstar, Fortify Software, Clark Nuber, Golf Savings Bank, Allegheny Technologies (additional site), First American Bank, CIEE
• Azaleos Seminar Series continues in 2007 in Vancouver, BC; Calgary, Alberta; Pittsburgh, PA. New dates upcoming for Seattle, WA and Portland, OR
• Azaleos blog launches at http://www.azaleos.com/blog

Azaleos adds over 10,000 e-mail users to OneStop Services in 2006

2006 was a year of record growth for Azaleos, in which our deployments of OneServer™ and BladeMail™ servers continued into customer sites across North America, supporting e-mail users around the globe. In total, our 2007 deployments added more than 10,000 e-mail users to those already under management through Azaleos OneStop Services™, and resulted in seamless migrations to our managed Exchange 2003 appliance from Exchange 5.5, Exchange 2000, Lotus Notes, and Novell GroupWise.

Azaleos begins international expansion into Canada, South America, Europe, and Asia

We continue to receive e-mails from customers and partners as far away as Dubai, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Russia, and are expanding our global reach as quickly as possible through partnerships with global companies such as IBM, Network Appliance, Avanade, and Dell, as well as through our growing network of resellers like XSM Systems (Canada), Binary Tree, NuTech, and Software Connections (Netherlands). In early February, we kick off our seminar series on Exchange 2003 and 2007 migration in Vancouver, BC, and Calgary, AB, Canada, and this quarter we are beginning deployments of OneServers in multiple sites around the globe.

History of Azaleos published in Redmond Channel Partner magazine

After 2 ½ years, Redmond Channel Partner magazine was the first to publish an article on the history of Azaleos (http://www.azaleos.com/news.html?id=66) and a description of one of our early customers, Zumiez Corporation, and their experience migrating to first our managed OneServer e-mail appliance, and more recently to our BladeMail e-mail appliance.

Microsoft Exchange Cost Calculator made available on www.azaleos.com

Repeatedly we’ve heard from customers that they’d like to quantify what they’re currently spending on their e-mail infrastructure. Our Exchange cost calculator, commissioned from Osterman Research, one of the top boutique e-mail analyst firms, strives to evaluate all aspects of e-mail maintenance including resources required, hardware, software licenses, and storage in an effort to help companies better understand the Total Cost of Ownership of running Microsoft Exchange.

Azaleos V2 releases Oct 23rd, adding rich functionality for E-Mail Archiving, Monitoring, Reporting, Remote Mgmt, and Disaster Recovery --- and preparing our customers for Exchange 2007

On October 23rd, 2006, Azaleos released version 2 of our OneServer, BladeMail, and OneStop Managed services. In order to help complete a single-source, end-to-end e-mail solution for our customers, we added ArchiveXchange: a complete solution for archiving e-mail for storage management, ViewXchange: a visualization and reporting system for Exchange, providing IT departments with formatted reports that cover Exchange health monitoring, e-mail traffic analysis both for e-mail directed inside the company as well as sent to other companies, message hygiene including SPAM and Virus activity, archiving and mobility statistics, and SecureXchange: a remote command and control system that enables logged, auditable, repeatable, scripted remote command execution helping Azaleos staff to troubleshoot and fix issues in the Exchange environment.

Welcome to our newest customers: Coinstar, Fortify Software, Clark Nuber, Golf Savings Bank, Allegheny Technologies (additional site), First American Bank, CIEE

The last 3 months of 2006 resulted in an unprecedented wave of interest and customer demand that has our team deploying OneServers all over the world. Publicly traded customers such as Coinstar (CSTR), First American Bank (FTAB), and Allegheny Technologies (ATI) chose Azaleos OneStop services to migrate from Lotus Notes to Exchange 2003, and others took advantage of our highly available E-Mail appliance and managed services to gain a highly robust Microsoft Exchange solution.

Azaleos Seminar Series continues in 2007 in Vancouver, BC; Calgary, Alberta; Pittsburgh, PA. New dates upcoming for Seattle, WA and Portland, OR

2007 marks the first year of Exchange 2007, the newly released version of Microsoft Exchange. Our engineering team has been working with Exchange 2007 since December of 2005 and has evaluated successive beta releases and builds of the product in order to facilitate rapid migration to this next 64-bit-only release of Microsoft Exchange. In a series of seminars starting on February 6, 2007, we will be helping companies better understand the value proposition surrounding Exchange 2007 and advising on strategies for making the migration to either Exchange 2003 or Exchange 2007. To sign up for a seminar in your area, visit http://www.azaleos.com/seminar.html or send an e-mail request to [email protected].

Azaleos blog launches at http://www.azaleos.com/blog

While developing the first managed e-mail appliance for Microsoft Exchange, we discovered some very interesting items about Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007, Windows, the .NET Framework, and developing solutions to support highly available applications of all kinds. To share our knowledge more effectively, and to eliminate some of the FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt) surrounding Microsoft Exchange 2003 and 2007 we decided to launch a new blog site. Our first article talks about Microsoft Exchange 2007 licensing changes, and comments and thoughts from our readers are appreciated!