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| 09/12/07 | Azaleos offers up Exchange 2007 virtual appliance
E-mail management provider Azaleos has unveiled plans for a virtual appliance running Exchange 2007 that can sit on top of a guest operating system within the VMware platform.
The company’s model, unveiled Monday at VMworld, provides Azaleos’s OneServer as a virtual machine preconfigured with Exchange 2007 or one or more of the messaging server’s five roles, which include remote client access, transport/routing and unified messaging. The idea is that those roles can be run on virtual machines on a single box in order to alleviate issues of Exchange’s underutilization of a server’s resources.
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| 09/11/07 | Azaleos' Virtual Appliance for Exchange 2007 to Support VMware eWeek
Azaleos, which has more than 40,000 Exchange e-mail seats under management, will support VMware for virtualized Microsoft Exchange 2007 by maintaining, in its networks operations center, a complete virtualized version of its standard Microsoft Exchange environment that mirrors the virtual production appliance that is deployed in the customer's data center.
This model circumvents Microsoft's lack of support for 64-bit virtual deployments of its server applications, and the Azaleos OneStop managed services will support the rapid deployment of patches and updates into the managed virtual appliance, McCall said.
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| 09/10/07 | John Cook's Venture Blog
Redmond-based Azaleos Corp. has named Scott Gode — a 17-year veteran of Microsoft — vice president of marketing. The company also unveiled a new virtual appliance offering at the VMworld Conference called Azaleos One Server, which chief technology officer Keith McCall said "will enable customers to increase physical server utilization, reduce costs and create an agile and dynamic e-mail solution." Founded in 2004, Azaleos' investors include Ignition and Second Avenue Partners... More... |
| 09/10/07 | Azaleos Unveils Messaging Virtualization Solution in Technology Preview
Azaleos Corporation (www.azaleos.com), leading provider of turnkey, on-premises, managed end to end messaging solutions for Microsoft Exchange environments, today showcased a technology preview of its upcoming Microsoft Exchange 2007 managed virtual appliance, a new extension of the Azaleos OneServer product line. The new Azaleos virtualization functionality for its OneServer messaging appliance will expand Azaleos’ set of managed solutions into the virtual world, delivering highly available solutions with lower physical server costs. No other company currently offers managed infrastructure solutions that deliver mission critical applications such as Microsoft Exchange with integrated, best-of-breed monitoring, archiving, disaster recovery, business continuity with remote management, and high availability within a virtualized environment.
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| 09/10/07 | Azaleos Names Longtime Microsoft Veteran Scott Gode as Vice President
Azaleos Corporation (www.azaleos.com), leading provider of turnkey, on-premises, managed solutions for Microsoft Exchange environments, today announced the appointment of Scott Gode as Vice President of Marketing. Gode will immediately assume responsibility for developing and executing the company's overall marketing and product-management strategy. Gode will report to Phil Van Etten, Chief Executive Officer of Azaleos... More... |
| 09/06/07 | Exchange Equals Profits eWeek Channel Insider
Within the land of IT, nothing is a bigger pain to own, manage and run than Microsoft Exchange. Everywhere you go customers have horror stories about the installation, maintenance and, above all, uptime of their Microsoft Exchange implementations. And worse yet, they will all tell you they are paying top dollar for the privilege because the expertise needed to successfully run a Microsoft Exchange server is some of the most expensive in the IT labor pool... More... |
| 08/31/07 | Azaleos Gets You Mobile with BlackBerry and iPhone Windows IT Pro
The topic turned to the iPhone in a recent conversation with Azaleos CTO Keith McCall. The question is whether it's useful in a business environment: Will it be adopted by business professionals, or is it just another cool Apple toy? Well, according to McCall, "We're finding pretty much across the board in all of our customers that at least one person in that company has purchased an iPhone. Typically it's an executive in the company—a vice president, a CIO, a CEO—and they're basically going to their IT department and saying, 'You know what, I've got this new device, I want it to work. Support me.'" So, even though its connectivity with Exchange isn't ideal, it is finding its way into corporations; as McCall put it, "It really is a top-down decision.".. More... |
| 08/14/07 | Exchange 2007 SP1 Moves a Step Closer eWeek
But Keith McCall, previously a Microsoft executive and now CTO at Azaleos, which offers on-premises, managed services for Exchange, points out that many customers traditionally wait for the release of Service Pack 1 before adopting a release of Microsoft software into production. He expects the "big bang wave" of Exchange 2007 adoption will crest on the release of SP1.
"The fact is that Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1 will be later to release than for any other version of Exchange. This has caused delay in customer adoption of Exchange 2007, which has likely impacted Exchange revenues for Microsoft," McCall told eWEEK.
Some 20 percent of Azaleos' customers have already moved to Exchange 2007, and are upbeat about the advanced Outlook Web Access and, in some cases, the new Unified Messaging capabilities. Azaleos expects 50 percent of its customers to have made the move to Exchange 2007 by the release of Service Pack 1 in the expected November timeframe, he said.
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| 07/13/07 | IT Experts Consider iPhone Perils ByteAndSwitch
For enterprises, the main challenge posed by iPhones is less about adding storage capacity, but more about making sure sensitive data is not plucked out of back-end arrays... More... |
| 07/11/07 | Microsoft's on-demand challenge eWeek
Some Microsoft partners are questioning how successful the software maker's hosting business will ultimately be if it doesn't also embrace other third-party solutions.
While Microsoft is increasingly looking to provide hosted services to customers, like its upcoming Dynamics Live CRM service and Exchange Hosted Services, some competitors question how effective that strategy will be.
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| 07/10/07 | Exchange, BlackBerry available in managed package from Azaleos NetworkWorld
E-mail management vendor Azaleos Tuesday said it is branching out into the BlackBerry market with an appliance and a set of remote-management services that will link the devices to Exchange.
The OneServer with MobileXchange is a dedicated appliance installed on-premise and monitored and managed remotely by Azaleos. It supports mobile devices, specifically RIM BlackBerry, which last month posted record-high subscriber growth for its fiscal first quarter, and also Microsoft’s Pocket PC and the Apple iPhone. .. More... |
| 07/10/07 | Microsoft Hosting Providers Dismiss Threat ComputerWorld
At its Tech Ed conference last month, Microsoft announced that four companies are now using Microsoft software that is delivered through the Web from Microsoft's datacentres. For those customers, Microsoft is offering back-end applications such as Exchange Server, SharePoint, Live Communications Server and Systems Management Server.
For CTO of Exchange email service provider Azaleos, Keith McCall, Microsoft's main self-imposed obstacle will be its unwillingness to host and sell software other than its own. For instance, Azaleos offers BlackBerry Enterprise Server for 'pushing' out email to smartphone-toting executives in conjunction with Exchange. .. More... |
| 06/28/07 | Exchange Update Fixes Potential iPhone Mail Issues eWeek
Microsoft has just released an update to Exchange 2007 that should fix issues that could have prevented Apple's new iPhone from receiving mail from Exchange Server 2007.
The Redmond, Wash.-based software maker released June 28 the third update to Exchange Server 2007, known as Rollup 3, which addresses many of the issues customers have been experiencing with Apple Mac Mail, just ahead of the release of Apple's iPhone on June 29.
The update is expected to address the many issues Exchange 2007 users have been having, including with Mac Mail and the fact that when they access their mailboxes on a Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 server, certain Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) clients cannot open the bodies of the e-mail messages, which triggers an error message... More... |
| 06/28/07 | Can the iPhone handle Exchange e-mail? ComputerWorld
... The best known [sync products] include Microsoft Corp.'s ActiveSync, which connects with Microsoft's popular Exchange e-mail server software; Motorola subsidiary Good Technology Inc.'s Mobile Messaging, which allows devices similar over-the-air connectivity with Lotus Notes/Domino and Exchange servers; or even Research in Motion's BlackBerry Connect, the trademark e-mail push' technology that made its BlackBerrys so popular and which the Canadian company is now licensing to other vendors.
From an IT management perspective, these products allow IT administrators to remotely manage these devices.
"That can help an IT manager when he gets a 2 a.m. call from the CEO complaining his e-mail is down," said Keith McCall, CTO at e-mail service provider Azaleos Corp. "Or it can let an IT manager wipe all of the data from a smartphone if it is lost. ".. More... |
| 06/20/07 | Azaleos Sets Channel Strategy eWeek Channel Insider
As the costs of managing IT in-house continues to rise, Microsoft-application outsourcer Azaleos is looking to cash in on making it less expensive and easier, particularly as customers look at migrating to Microsoft Exchange 2007.
The company sells customers its appliance-based outsourced migration and then ongoing managed service of the application can each save IT organizations 20 percent in costs over doing it themselves... More... |
| 06/04/07 | Azaleos Delivers On-Demand Microsoft Exchange Reporting and Visualization
ViewXchange Software-as-a-Service integrates real-time monitoring, reporting, and trouble ticketing for Exchange 2003 and 2007.. More... |
| 06/04/07 | Azaleos Named a 2007 CRN Emerging Tech Dynamo Computer Reseller News
They have far superior technology, more robust margins and uncompromising technical support. They are the CRN Emerging Tech Dynamos and they're reshaping the information technology industry, solution providers say, by handily beating established vendors in head-to-head product, margin, technical support and field engagement comparisons... More... |
| 06/01/07 | Keeping compliant in a Web 2.0 world ComputerWorld
But Keith McCall, founder and CTO of Azaleos Corp., a provider of managed e-mail appliances based around Microsoft Exchange, said in a phone interview that Exchange 2007 actually provides fairly powerful outbound message filtering features based around policies and keywords that can be set by an IT manager.
These can "provide the filtering services that 90% of organizations need," he said. More advanced solutions, such as those that interactively edit users’ messages as they type them, are overkill, "addressing esoteric needs that do not really apply to the market at this point" McCall said... More... |
| 05/03/07 | Hybrids will improve your mileage Network World
Network World Unified Communications Newsletter - May 3, 2007
The situation is not really all that different in the messaging space. While most organizations manage messaging systems internally, a growing proportion of organizations are using a hybrid approach for messaging management — a combination of on-premise servers and appliances combined with managed or hosted services that provide specific types of functionality for which these providers are well suited. .. More... |
| 04/30/07 | Avnet to Offer Azaleos E-Mail Managed Service Computer Reseller News
Avnet Technology Solutions plans to distribute Azaleos e-mail appliances and managed services offering, becoming the 3-year-old company's first distributor as it moves to a channel sales model.
The Tempe, Ariz.-based distributor's partners will be able to resell Azaleos's OneServer, BladeMail and OneStop Managed Services offerings, which integrate remote monitoring, management, archiving, reporting, backup and disaster recovery services with Microsoft Exchange and IBM hardware. .. More... |
| 04/23/07 | NetApp, Azaleos Team Byte and Switch
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. .. More... |
| 04/18/07 | E-mail: Why it is next to impossible to lose NetworkWorld
"Archiving solutions are just a means to track and manage the enormous amount of e-mail flowing around the world," says Keith McCall, CTO of managed e-mail provider Azaleos.
McCall says it is the retention policies that protect companies when the question of "lost" e-mail arises.
"You would be really surprised by the number of people that have purchased archiving software and do not have a retention policy," says McCall. "We advise every company to have an e-mail retention policy because in the case of litigation you can incur liability without an e-mail retention policy in place."
The Chicago law firm of Vedder, Price, Kaufman, & Kammholz estimates the cost to retrieve and review e=mail messages when they are requested for a lawsuit at $2 per message.
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| 04/13/07 | SMBs Get Storage Package for Microsoft Exchange eWeek
Data storage vendor NetApp and e-mail management appliance maker Azaleos announced April 12 that they have united to provide a new enterprise-class messaging hardware/software package for SMBs that use Microsoft Exchange servers.
Azaleos' OneServer appliance and OneStop managed services basically separate the flow of e-mail from the storage apparatus and act like a traffic cop in smoothing out the ebb and flow of an enterprise's deluge of digital mail. They also bring proactive monitoring, patch management, system fixes and reporting to the table for users who want to "set and forget" their Exchange environments, an Azaleos spokesperson said.
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| 04/05/07 | ACS Announces SolutionOne(SM) for Microsoft Exchange, Raises Bar in High Availability and End-to-End Reliability ACS Press Release
ACS' SolutionOne for Microsoft Exchange will enable its clients to have unsurpassed e-mail availability that can be rapidly deployed while meeting increasing business demands. At the heart of the solution is an industry- leading service level agreement that yields greater than 99.9% availability. ACS' SolutionOne for Microsoft Exchange integrates ACS' world-class data centers and Microsoft-certified professionals with best-of-breed technology partners Azaleos Corporation, Mimosa Systems, and Postini... More... |
| 03/26/07 | Slideshow: Azaleos appliances based on Exchange 2007 NetworkWorld
NetworkWorld publishes a slideshow of the Azaleos OneServer and ViewXchange monitoring and reporting.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/032107-azaleos-exchange-slides.html?page=1
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| 03/22/07 | Dreading the Exchange 2007 upgrade? Alternatives abound ComputerWorld
Microsoft Corp.'s recently released 2007 upgrade to its market-leading Exchange e-mail server provides faster 64-bit-powered performance along with many other new features, especially when users are paired with the latest Outlook 2007 e-mail client.
At the same time, Exchange 2007's arrival leads to a fork in the road for many IT departments.
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The three-year-old Azaleos has gotten $8.2 million in venture funding. Today, it manages 20,000 Exchange 2003 e-mail boxes. But growth has accelerated; the company won 10,000 of those accounts this quarter alone, McCall said, including a 5,000 user contract with fruit distributor Chiquita Brands International Inc.
Other customers include Allegheny Technologies, which has 7,000 e-mail users managed by Azaleos, sporting goods vendor K2 Inc., Coinstar Inc. and youth retailer Zumiez Inc.
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| 03/21/07 | Azaleos rolls out appliances based on Exchange 2007 NetworkWorld
E-mail management provider Azaleos Wednesday unveiled upgrades to its managed server appliances for corporate users based on Microsoft’s Exchange Server 2007.
The new Azaleos lineup features the OneServer for High Reliability (HR), OneServer for High Availability (HA) and Azaleos BladeMail. The company also introduced the OneServer for Client Access (CA) to support Exchange 2007’s client access configuration. .. More... |
| 03/21/07 | Azaleos Updates OneServer for Microsoft Exchange 2007
REDMOND, Wash., March 21, 2007 - Azaleos Corporation (www.azaleos.com), leading provider of managed, turnkey e-mail solutions for highly available Microsoft Exchange, today launched a completely updated line of OneServer(TM) E-Mail Appliances for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007.
The new OneServer product family includes:
OneServer for High Reliability — Turnkey E-Mail Appliance for up to 1,000 users
OneServer for High Availability — Clustered e-mail solution that delivers up to 99.999% availability
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| 03/15/07 | System Growing Pains Processor Magazine
“I think that people are not going to look at the software upgrades that they might have done in the past with Windows, but they are going to essentially be looking at rip-and-replace,” says McCall, who, like Holwerda, predicts those who upgrade to Vista will do so by purchasing new hardware. McCall says, “If you balance it off with the productivity boost and gains of new hardware and solutions, it just might be warranted.” .. More... |
| 03/07/07 | Managing the Cost and Complexity of Vista [and Exchange] Deployments eCommerce Times
Many IT organizations are developing plans to roll out Vista as part of a hardware refresh cycle. As deployment increases, IT organizations will need to devote more and more resources to maintain the combination of Exchange 2007, Vista and Office 2007. Some companies may to choose to deploy Vista to corporate desktops as part of an "appliance-like" upgrade... More... |
| 03/02/07 | Azaleos Selected as Gartner "Cool Vendor in Storage Management" Gartner
On March 2, 2007, Azaleos was selected by Gartner Research as a 2007 Gartner "Cool Vendor" in Storage Management.
"Storage administrators and IT management staff are regularly subject to a variety of storage management challenges. A group of new storage vendors is delivering management products that provide solutions focused on specific problems." - Gartner Group
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| 02/26/07 | Security, Storage Give Rise to Managed Services ComputerWeekly.com
Colliers uses managed services from Sprint Nextel Corp. to provide firewall protection, Internet connectivity and Network Address Translation and domain name server services between its private network and the outside world. Fischer defines the arrangement as managed service, not outsourcing, because Sprint has "nothing on their premises that actually belongs to us," Fischer said in an email. The chief benefit has been to keep the responsibility for the wide area network (WAN) function "all with one party and avoid finger-pointing."
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However he, too, is looking at using more managed services, including Redmond, Wash.-based Azaleos Corp. for hosting and support of Exchange, and perhaps an MSP for storage, given the firm's penchant, he added, for "saving everything in sight."
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| 02/26/07 | Azaleos Gets Closer to NetApp for E-Mail Services CRN
Azaleos is leveraging its close relationship with Network Appliance to expand its ability to offer managed e-mail services to solution providers.
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Azaleos makes the OneServer family of plug-and-play clustered appliances based on standard servers, usually IBM or Dell server blades, with the company's proprietary software, Van Etten said. The appliances allow failover of the Exchange server and let Azaleos remotely monitor them against up to 40,000 data points per second, including traffic patterns, storage use and other patterns that could impact availability. Options include disaster recovery and e-mail archiving.
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| 02/23/07 | Messaging Predictions for 2007 Messaging News
Single Source
"2007 will mark the year companies start demanding that email and its ancillary
services, such as archiving, disaster recovery, unified messaging and message hygiene,should merge into a single sourced, end-to-end, on-premise deployed solution. One that IT departments can treat as a utility—just like they treat electricity, heat, and air conditioning today."
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| 02/22/07 | And the Winner Is... Byte and Switch
Azaleos wins award for best supporting actor for our partnership with Network Appliance and StoreVault by one of the top Storage Networking magazines in the industry... More... |
| 02/13/07 | Exchange Issues Spawn Services Byte and Switch
If you're among the many enterprises contemplating a move to Microsoft's Exchange 2007, you won't need to go far for advice and counsel. A range of suppliers and service providers see the issues involved in moving from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 as a stepping-stone to near-term riches.
Network Appliance, for example, is planning to goose its channel partners into doubling as providers of Exchange advice and even hosted services, through use of NetApp's StoreVault NAS gear and email appliances from vendor Azaleos.
At NetApp's North America Partner Summit in San Francisco last week, Sajai Krishnan, general manager of NetApp's StoreVault Business Unit, made reference to the possibility of bundling NetApp's NAS and Exchange management hardware for use by VARs. A NetApp spokesman later acknowledged that Krishnan's reference was to Azaleos, which has been packaging NetApp StoreVault S500s as part of a "complete Exchange solution."
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| 02/02/07 | Users, analysts: No Rush to adopt Exchange 2007 InfoWorld
This was a solid article by Elizabeth Montalbano, of IDG News Service, which typically feeds into InfoWorld, ComputerWorld, and NetworkWorld around the globe.
It's almost a duplicate template to the December 27, 2006 article of the "After month, no rush to adopt Vista" she also wrote.
The truth is, although Exchange 2007 has its warts, many companies that we've talked to are seriously considering the move to Exchange 2007 in 2007. From talking with our customers, here are the top 10 (well, 11) reasons they are making the move:
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| 01/29/07 | Vista is ready for consumers but businesses key Washington Post
After more than five years of development, over 50 million lines of software code, a $6 billion investment and a few headaches, Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT.O) Windows Vista finally reaches consumers this week.
But the extent of success of the new operating system may depend more on large corporations, looking for different things than the multimedia bells and whistles aimed at home users and who have more discretion about when to buy the software... More... |
| 01/11/07 | Exchange 2007 facing integration issues with other Microsoft software Network World
As Microsoft updates the individual key components of its enterprise software, integrating those pieces is proving challenging.
The issues center on Exchange 2007 and its relationship to Vista, released late last year along with Exchange to corporate users, Virtual Server 2005 R2 and the forthcoming Longhorn Server, slated to ship by the end of the year. In a nutshell, Exchange 2007 can't run on Microsoft’s most current virtualization software, Exchange’s management tools won’t run on the just released Vista desktop operating system and the 64-bit messaging server is not compatible with Microsoft’s forthcoming 64-bit server operating system called Longhorn. .. More... |
| 01/09/07 | Azaleos Initiates International Expansion with Certified Experts Program
Azaleos, the leading provider of highly available managed e-mail appliances and managed services for Microsoft Exchange has expanded its Azaleos Certified Expert (ACE) reseller program by adding Vancouver-based XSM Systems, Inc. a provider of innovative IT infrastructure solutions for businesses. This international partnership further strengthens Azaleos’ mission to make the most cost-effective Microsoft Exchange solution: OneServer and OneStop Services available to businesses around the world... More... |
| 12/02/06 | Azaleos: Simplifying Exchange Redmond Channel Partner
Azaleos aims to capitalize on the complexity of Exchange by offering an e-mail appliance and monitoring service that eases customer headaches.
This is the story of the founding of the company, including a case study of Zumiez' implementation of the Azaleos OneServer... More... |
| 12/01/06 | New E-Discovery Rules Take Effect Today Information Week
You have to know what information your company is storing and where it's located. And if you think it's going to be too difficult or expensive to find court-requested data, you'll need to prove it.
While the IT departments of most large companies likely already have some data retention policy in place, "the amended rules really push these requirements down into the market, making them applicable to companies of any size," says Keith McCall, CTO and co-founder of Exchange e-mail management appliance provider Azaleos. .. More... |
| 11/30/06 | Users Cautious of Microsoft Upgrades Byte and Switch
Of all the new Microsoft offerings, Exchange 2007 is perhaps the most important for storage admins, because backing up and archiving email is a big reason for employing networked storage... More... |
| 11/30/06 | Azaleos Provides Free Microsoft Exchange Cost Calculator Tool
Total Cost of Ownership tool helps companies identify and reduce e-mail maintenance costs of Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007.. More... |
| 11/22/06 | Energizing Exchange Byte and Switch
Exchange is about more than email these days — it's a business-critical application for most organizations.
That means it has to be available, managed, and secured at all times. When there is a problem with Exchange, the entire company knows about it, so do many people who communicate with your company from the outside.
With Microsoft's Exchange 2007 set to be released to manufacturing next month, the application is likely to become a much larger concern for most organizations. So we've put together this tip sheet for optimizing and running Exchange more efficiently.
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| 11/08/06 | Azaleos Version 2 offers hybrid approach to message management NetworkWorld
Azaleos OneServer, in conjunction with the company's OneStop Managed Services, offers a hybrid approach to managing Microsoft Exchange. In short, Aazleos offers an entire Exchange environment in a box that sits on-premise, but management of the system is provided through an outsourced model... More... |
| 10/24/06 | Azaleos Aims for "Set-and-Forget" Exchange Windows IT Pro
Email is basically a utility service for businesses — like electricity — and Azaleos wants to be "the utility company for email," says Azaleos CTO and cofounder Keith McCall. Azaleos's announcement Monday of a major version 2.0 upgrade of its Exchange Server appliance/managed services combination adds new modules that bring the company's managed email offering closer than ever to utility status.
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| 10/23/06 | Azaleos expands Exchange management arsenal InfoWorld
Azaleos today announced that it has packed a pile of new functionality into Version 2 of its OneServer and BladeMail Exchange-management appliances, including e-mail archiving, reporting, monitoring, and security functionality.
The company also has extended its OneStop Managed Services to support "the majority of IT requirements" for maintaining an e-mail infrastructure based on Exchange 2003 and 2007
"Azaleos has delivered an end-to-end solution for Microsoft Exchange that should significantly reduce the variability of Microsoft Exchange total cost of ownership," said Michael Osterman, analyst at Osterman Research. "The hybrid solution approach to helping IT organizations manage their e-mail environments is a unique and market-defining approach that I believe customers will have a lot of interest in exploring."
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| 10/23/06 | Microsoft Opens Access to Its Sender ID Spec eWeek
Microsoft has made the Sender ID framework specification for e-mail authentication available to users at no cost and with the guarantee that it will never take legal action against them... More... |
| 10/23/06 | Exchange monitoring, archiving on tap from Azaleos NetworkWorld
E-mail management provider Azaleos Monday launched a new version of its Microsoft Exchange appliance adding monitoring, archiving, and reporting features... More... |
| 10/23/06 | Azaleos Delivers Intelligently Managed E-Mail Solution for Microsoft Exchange
October 23, 2006, Redmond, WA. Azaleos Corporation (www.azaleos.com), the leader in managed e-mail appliances for Microsoft Exchange, today announced availability of version 2.0 of its managed e-mail solution that enhances OneServer™ and BladeMail™ e-mail appliances by integrating e-mail archiving, reporting, monitoring, and new security functionality into its highly available, managed e-mail appliances. OneStop Managed Services™ have been extended to support the majority of IT requirements to cost-effectively enable highly available corporate e-mail infrastructure based on Microsoft Exchange 2003 and 2007. Working together, OneServer™, BladeMail™ and OneStop Managed Services can deliver IT organizations up to 99.999% availability of their e-mail infrastructure, while keeping IT in complete control of their e-mail assets... More... |
| 10/19/06 | Microsoft, IBM Hook Up for E-Mail Archiving eWeek
Keith McCall, CEO and co-founder of Azaleos, in Redmond, Wash., which makes an appliance that automates all aspects of the Microsoft Exchange e-mail server, told eWEEK that "this offering appears to contain services for deployment but not for actual monitoring, management or maintenance of the archiving solution once built. That is left to VAR/VAD business partners."
McCall said he believes the partnership by IBM and Microsoft validates the importance of e-mail archiving in businesses of any size.
However, McCall said that a complete e-mail solution needs to align archiving with existing business processes, retention policies and mailbox quotas, and be monitored, maintained and supported by services available seven days a week, 24 hours a day.
"While e-mail infrastructure availability has become mission critical, e-mail has also become a record, discoverable and admissible in many courts around the world—whether stored in Microsoft Exchange or in an archive repository," McCall said.
"Customers should carefully select the complete end-to-end solution that delivers maximum value and protection of this critical corporate asset."
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| 09/15/06 | Storage apps keep Exchange running 24/7 Storage Magazine
Microsoft Exchange has some unique requirements and quirks that storage managers will have to grapple with to ensure high availability of the e-mail service.
E-mail has shot up through the hierarchy of critical systems, from business critical to mission critical to absolutely essential. "E-mail today is as important as the telephone for business communications," says Mark Levitt, program vice president for collaborative computing and the enterprise workplace at IDC, Framingham, MA. Becky Swails, network engineer at Citgo Petroleum Corp. in Tulsa, OK, agrees: "When it comes to e-mail, we're like crack addicts."
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| 09/08/06 | Osterman Research publishes Hosted Messaging Market Trends Study 2006-2009, Mentioning Azaleos
Osterman Research publishes a leading edge report on the Hosted Messaging Market, mentioning Azaleos on page 36. Read an excerpt of the report at http://www.azaleos.com/uploads/files/excerpt%20from%20hosted%20messaging%20market%20trends%20osterman%20research.pdf For the whole report, see http://www.ostermanresearch.com/or_hm06es.pdf... More... |
| 09/06/06 | Azaleos Corporation Named 2006 Readers' Choice Award Winner by Windows IT Pro
The Azaleos OneServer managed e-mail appliance and OneStop Managed Services was named a winner in the 64-bit System category of the 2006 Windows IT Pro Readers’ Choice Awards. .. More... |
| 08/24/06 | Azaleos Offers New Partner Program eWeek Channel Insider
Azaleos, an e-mail managed services provider, is announcing a new certification program for VARs as the company releases an update of its QuickStart E-Mail Assessments service.
The new certification, ACE (Azaleos Certified Experts), trains solutions providers in the updated QuickStart service. Once trained, VARs can offer IT departments an assessment of their current e-mail environments and then recommend ways to migrate to Azaleos' Microsoft Exchange solution, said Keith McCall, chief technology officer and co-founder of the Redmond, Wash., company. .. More... |
| 08/21/06 | Azaleos and Partners target Lotus Notes/Domino, Novell Groupwise, and Exchange Migrations
Updates to Azaleos QuickStart E-Mail Assessments reduce Migration Cost and Complexity
QuickStart E-Mail Assessments are a value-added service provided by Azaleos technicians and Azaleos Certified Experts (ACEs) who are trained in techniques to analyze enterprise e-mail systems and recommend corrective action to optimize enterprise e-mail infrastructure. A two-day service engagement results in a detailed plan describing to IT organizations how to get to a highly available e-mail environment, and provides recommendations on how to reduce e-mail costs by 20%. QuickStart E-Mail Assessments can also help those customers seeking a strategy to rapidly migrate to Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007 from earlier versions of Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes/Domino and Novell GroupWise, delivering a step-by-step migration plan... More... |
| 07/24/06 | Exchange Server 2007 Nears eWeek
"The new GUI from Microsoft for Exchange will be a welcome improvement from the old," and the fact that it is based on the Exchange Management Shell will allow ISVs to rapidly augment the GUI with their own enhancements, McCall said.
The GUI features a new, integrated wizard that walks IT administrators through the process of moving their users to the Exchange 2007 product from prior versions, McCall said.
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| 07/21/06 | Microsoft Strives to Make Exchange More Like an Appliance eWeek
"Companies of all sizes are going to need to consider how to implement e-mail servers to support the five different Exchange 2007 roles as opposed to the two or three in Exchange 2003," McCall said.
McCall added that, "those customers seeking highly available Exchange 2007 will need to consider applying two hardware servers to each of the five roles to cluster systems for redundancy and to reduce the impact to availability from the hundreds of patches Microsoft delivers a year."
Blade servers from HP or IBM, which support 14 server blades per BladeCenter chassis, would also increase in use when running Exchange in its various roles as a cost-effective way of addressing these challenges, McCall said.
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| 07/20/06 | Exchange Data Store Change Still in the Cards eWeek
While Exchange 2007, the upcoming e-mail, calendaring and messaging server from Microsoft, is still based on the Extensible Storage Engine, a derivative of the Jet database store, the company says it remains committed to unifying this with the SQL Server database store going forward.
They just don't know exactly when yet.
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But Keith McCall, a former Exchange executive and now the chief technology officer at Azaleos in Redmond, Wash., says that in every seminar and customer discussion his company has, it hears the urgent plea for archiving solutions to help with storage management, compliance, and Exchange reliability and performance.
"Storage management is the single biggest issue facing Exchange customers today after high availability. In some of our customers, Exchange mail store sizes are growing at 7 percent a month and the growth in larger local drive capacities are not sufficient to meet e-mail demand.
"Exchange customers are also switching en masse to storing e-mail on SANs to help address Exchange store reliability and growth issues," he said.
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| 07/07/06 | Exchange 2007 storage enhancements: Cure-all or Band-Aid? SearchStorage.com
Peddling his newest wares — a product called BladeMail, which hosts Exchange on diskless blades by IBM packaged with Exchange store on IBM-rebranded NetApp SAN storage — at Microsoft's TechEd conference in Boston this year, Keith McCall, CEO of Azaleos, said that the chief problem with Exchange is that it is still based on the decade-old JET database, which does sequential reads and random writes. Because a search query has to read through data in sequential order, but the data it's looking for has been written in multiple places on a disk at random, searches for information within Exchange can be costly in system resources and time-consuming... More... |
| 07/06/06 | Users turn to SANs to manage Exchange SearchStorage.com
According to users and industry experts, Microsoft could never have envisioned the way email would come to be used when it designed Exchange 10 years ago. But now, the Windows email system has 80% market share, and the corporate world has become all but completely dependent on email as a communications tool, a collaboration enabler, a virtual secretary and a file archiving system. It's clear something's got to give when it comes to Exchange — and users say they've found the best way to keep email manageable is to let their SANs do more of the work. .. More... |
| 06/19/06 | Exchange 2007 will shake up messaging NetworkWorld
Corporate users who migrate to Exchange 2007 will face mandatory infrastructure costs that, while advancing security and management, could add complexity and costs to their networks... More... |
| 06/15/06 | Azaleos BladeMail Appliance Simplifies MS Exchange E-Mail eWeek
E-mail storage management company Azaleos and its partners IBM and Microsoft introduced a new specialized appliance June 14 that aims to lower the operation and maintenance costs of the notoriously complex Microsoft Exchange e-mail server. .. More... |
| 06/12/06 | Azaleos sharpens its OneServer for Exchange with BladeMail InfoWorld
Azaleos has announced Azaleos OneServer: BladeMail, a Microsoft Exchange 2003 appliance which supports up to 17,500 Exchange e-mail users on a single IBM BladeCenter chassis, and is expected to support 70,000 Exchange 2007 users when it becomes available.
The company describes the system as "a turnkey e-mail appliance designed to help companies lower the cost and complexity of running Microsoft Exchange".
Azaleos and IBM demonstrated BladeMail for Microsoft Exchange 2003 on Monday at Microsoft's Tech Ed conference in Boston... More... |
| 06/12/06 | Azaleos to offer managed e-mail on a blade NetworkWorld
BOSTON - E-mail management provider Azaleos this week will introduce Blade-mail, a highly available, remotely managed Microsoft Exchange appliance running on IBM blade servers... More... |
| 06/12/06 | Quest, Azaleos, Zenprise Unveil Updated Products at TechEd ENT News
Quest, Azaleos, Zenprise Unveil Updated Products at TechEd
by Ed Scannell and Stuart Johnston
June 12, 2006
Quest Software, Azaleos Corp. and Zenprise took advantage of Microsoft’s TechEd 2006 conference in Boston this week to roll out new and updated products that build on Windows infrastructures... More... |
| 06/12/06 | Azaleos Announces BladeMail Appliance for High Availability, Low Cost Microsoft Exchange
Microsoft TechEd Conference, Boston, MA - June 12, 2006 - Azaleos Corporation (www.azaleos.com), the leading supplier of managed e-mail appliances built on the Microsoft platform, today announced Azaleos BladeMail(TM), a turnkey e-mail appliance designed to help companies lower the cost and complexity of running Microsoft Exchange. .. More... |
| 06/02/06 | Exchange 2007 Set for Premium Edition The Inquirer
One interesting alternative to shutting up and paying is Azaleos, a startup firm that has developed an appliance for IT buyers wanting the latest Exchange offerings — or maintaining Exchange 2003 — but lacking an appetite for retraining or the general-purpose server chops to run it. Where could Azaleos have developed its expertise? .. More... |
| 05/12/06 | High-availability Exchange made easy InfoWorld TestCenter Review
...we very much liked the ease of use as well as the flexibility when it came to integrating the OneServer into an existing environment — even relatively large ones. Because moving Exchange objects is accomplished using the standard Microsoft Exchange System Manager or other Active Directory management tools, things such as public folders and directory integration are readily available to Azaleos users. .. More... |
| 04/24/06 | Exchange 12 Migrations Come at a Hefty Price eWeek
As Microsoft's Exchange team gives user groups, administrators and customers a first look at Exchange 12, which is currently still being beta tested, concerns are rising about the extensive retraining and high costs that will be involved in moving to the new product. .. More... |
| 04/04/06 | Azaleos taps Microsoft SAN technology to better manage Exchange NetworkWorld
E-mail management vendor Azaleos said Tuesday it is adopting new remote SAN booting capabilities from Microsoft in hopes of reducing the cost and complexity of maintaining distributed Microsoft Exchange deployments while increasing availability and disaster recovery options for the e-mail server... More... |
| 03/24/06 | Azaleos Backs Up Exchange InternetNews
Azaleos says that the solution ensures that Exchange will be functioning within minutes of server failure, providing dial tone recovery to the secondary site where the OneServer is deployed... More... |
| 03/23/06 | Azaleos Offers "Full Fidelity" Disaster Recovery Solution Redmond Magazine
Azaleos Corp.'s new offering provides customers with the option of buying a dual-site disaster recovery solution that protects customers from losing any messages or data if one of its two servers completely fails... More... |
| 03/20/06 | E-mail storage outsourcing gets mixed reaction SearchStorage.com
There's a new player in the storage space and it's thanks to e-mail.
Azaleos, a startup formed in 2004, had previously been busy managing the Exchange environment for customers in every way but in backup and message archiving. Azaleos' OneServer, installed at the customer site, monitors e-mail data, and manages patch updates and other aspects of Exchange e-mail. According to the company, the idea of managing Exchange storage for its customers is relatively new — but the need was evident.
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| 03/20/06 | Azaleos adds e-mail backup option Network World
E-mail management vendor Azaleos this week is set to introduce an e-mail back-up option for users of its OneServer appliance. The option, which combines OneServer appliances running Exchange with network storage devices from Network Appliance, gives users a hot backup to a disaster recovery site. .. More... |
| 03/09/06 | Azaleos Offers Exchange-in-a-box
Azaleos offers an interesting hybrid solution for organizations that want to run Microsoft Exchange. The company offers OneServer, a clustered appliance that provides a complete Exchange solution consisting of Windows Server 2003, Exchange Server 2003 and the Sybari Antigen anti-virus/anti-spam solution, as well as other capabilities... More... |
| 01/30/06 | Azaleos Corporation continues rapid expansion with new additions
to executive team, Yahoo
Managed
messaging solution provider adds technology industry veterans Phil van
Etten, CFO, and Neil McIrvin, VP of Sales for North America... More... |
| 11/18/05 | Startup aims to simplify x64 Exchange upgrades, InfoWorld
Azaleos seeks to eliminate costs for
organizations upgrading 32-bit hardware... More... |
| 11/07/05 | Microsoft's "Live" plan short on business apps, Network World
Microsoft jumped into the software-as-a-service game last week, but conspicuously absent was a strategy to develop corporate-focused services... More... |
| 11/04/05 | Microsoft plays catch-up with nimble on-demand rivals, eWeek
Executives who head a variety of
software-as-a-service businesses say that Microsoft Corp. has no choice
but to move deeper into the on-demand software business or possibly face
being outmaneuvered by a host of smaller, more nimble
competitors... More... |
| 10/01/05 | One
organization's experience with e-mail application upgrades, Managed Healthcare Executive
With 26
locations throughout the western Washington area and 900 professionals,
Compass Health is the state's largest provider of comprehensive
behavioral health programs for children and adults from a variety of
income levels and ethnic cultures... More... |
| 08/30/05 | Azaleos appliance lightens Exchange 2003 load for Compass Health,
SOA Pipeline
Building our own
Exchange 2003 cluster would have been time-consuming and probably
wouldn't have taken place until much later. .. More... |
| 07/26/05 | Money flows for startups again, Seattle Post Intelligencer
Two years ago,
Seattle-area entrepreneurs couldn't catch a break when it came to
financing their early-stage businesses as venture capitalists spent time
repairing their damaged portfolios or invested in more mature,
later-stage companies... More... |
| 07/12/05 | Azaleos gets $6 million for e-mail business, Seattle Post Intelligencer
Azaleos Corp. has
landed $6 million in venture capital financing from Ignition Partners
and Second Avenue Partners, bringing total financing in the Redmond
startup to nearly $7 million... More... |
| 07/11/05 | Azaleos Corporation raises $6 million in Series B funding, WebServices Journal
Ignition Partners'
Investment Validates Products and Services That Resolve Complexities of
Managing Microsoft E-mail... More... |
| 07/11/05 | Redmond, Wash.-based e-mail technology company Azaleos Corp. has
closed a $6 million Series B funding, TheDeal.com
Redmond, Wash.-based e-mail technology
company Azaleos Corp. has closed a $6 million Series B funding, bringing
the total investment in the company to almost $7 million... More... |
| 07/11/05 | Azaleos sprouts cash infusion, Puget
Sound Business Journal
Redmond-based networking startup Azaleos
Corp. has nabbed $6 million in funding from two prominent venture firms
— Ignition Partners of Bellevue and Second Avenue Partners of
Seattle... More... |
| 04/11/05 | Azaleos puts e-mail in its place, The
Seattle Times
It's hard enough to manage all the e-mail
coming through your inbox daily... More... |
| 04/04/05 | Azaleos releases Exchange appliance, ComputerWorld
Azaleos Corp. in Issaquah, Wash.,
last week launched a managed Exchange 2003 messaging appliance, the
Azaleos OneServer, and the accompanying OneStop subscription
service... More... |
| 03/30/05 | E-mail appliances taking on new duties, SearchExchange
E-mail appliances can help make
life easier for messaging administrators by monitoring content and
keeping unwanted spam and virus-laden messages from entering an
enterprise network at the perimeter... More... |
| 03/28/05 | Azaleos seeks to simplify Exchange, eWeek
Enterprises seeking relief from
Microsoft's Exchange Server management and upgrade headaches could
find help from a new managed appliance offering from startup Azaleos
Corp... More... |
| 03/23/05 | Startup offers clustered Exchange server with managed maintenance,
Redmondmag.com
A small Redmond,
Wash.-based startup is shipping a new twist on outsourcing and turnkey
solutions — a cluster of Exchange 2003 servers in a single box, replete
with subscription-based third-party management, monitoring and
maintenance. And, no, that's not a cutesy turn of phrase referring to
Microsoft... More... |
| 03/21/05 | Azaleos enters SMB market with Exchange appliance, MessagingPipeline
OneServer is delivered in a trio
of Dell or HP server computers, and requires a subscription to the
company's OneStop software service... More... |
| 03/21/05 | Azaleos, Postini ease e-mail management, InfoWorld
From fighting spam to streamlining
maintenance, corporate IT managers this month will gain more armor for
their e-mail environments... More... |
| 03/21/05 | Start-up to manage Exchange systems, NetworkWorld Fusion
Start-up Azaleos this week will debut itself and its appliance aimed at helping users create a highly-available and remotely-managed Microsoft Exchange platform... More... |
| 03/08/05 | Azaleos snapshot, Ferris Research
Azaleos is at the forefront in defining a new space and has very little direct competition... More... |
| 02/18/05 | Exchange gains maintenance medicine, InfoWorld
"Exchange gains maintenance medicine. Lucid8, Azaleos unveil tools for managing Microsoft Exchange" By Cathleen Moore... More... |
