“We're not in the e-mail business and we shouldn't have to be. With Azaleos, we don't have to worry about our Exchange system being up and running, and we can dedicate our IT resources to activities focused more on our core business.”
- Rich De Brino, CIO, Compass Health
“The OneServer and OneStop monitoring and maintenance service is the perfect solution for us, and that includes Azaleos' great customer support. ”
- Bruce Haas, IT Director, K2 Sports
“With Microsoft iSCSI boot capabilities and managed solutions such as the Azaleos OneServer, we can leverage our existing infrastructure to keep our system management overhead to a minimum. Fully utilizing the storage virtualization capabilities of our SAN combined with a blade-centric approach will help us to simplify our server environment and enhance our disaster recovery strategy.”
- Lee Hudson, IT Director, Zumiez
“Customers seeking to upgrade to Exchange 12 from previous versions of Exchange could spend as much as $1,000 per mailbox for solutions that provide such complex capabilities as disaster recovery, high availability, and clustering. The Azaleos OneServer appliance and OneStop services offer a unique solution to organizations seeking to deploy an optimized, clustered, highly available Exchange 2003-based solution today on hardware that will support operation of the Exchange 12 product when it ships in late 2006 or 2007.”
- David Ferris, President & Senior Analyst, Ferris Research
“When Exchange 12 makes its appearance at the end of 2006, over 115 million current Microsoft Exchange users and their IT departments will need to face the 64-bit question of whether to buy all new 64-bit servers, or stick with 32-bit servers running Exchange 2003 or older versions. Azaleos' appliance and monitoring services are designed to provide organizations with an answer to this question.”
- Mark Levitt, VP for Collaborative Computing, IDC
“Anyone who has suffered the costs of an Exchange migration or the repeated downtime associated with Microsoft e-mail will see the value in a redundant, high performance managed system like this.”
- George Dart, President, Network Integration Technology
“E-mail has become a backbone and mission-critical service inside every organization. At Ignition, we depend upon e-mail and it is our most pragmatic and effective method to organize and share information and record communication with our limited partners and portfolio companies. As critical as e-mail messaging has become, we see few options for mid-market companies to ensure against increasing cost, while reducing administrative costs. We believe in the business and technical value afforded by the Azaleos solution, and we believe Azaleos will become the next standard for how companies take advantage of their investments in e-mail technologies.”
- Cameron Myhrvold, Ignition Partners
“The OneServer installation was completed within two one-hour trips to our office. From that point on, I knew that Azaleos would be very responsive to our needs. We feel we've already been very successful. And over time, the advantages of Azaleos will be even more apparent.”
- Lee Hudson, IT Director, Zumiez
“Redundancy and 7x24 monitoring and management are critical capabilities we didn't have before and couldn't really afford. It's nice going to bed at night knowing that Exchange won't be going down and that Azaleos is watching the appliance while we sleep.”
- Rich DeBrino, CIO, Compass Health
“Before the OneServer, we were always reactive in fixing Exchange server problems because we wouldn't know what to look for to be proactive. Now my staff and I are aware of all issues that impact our Exchange environment, and the time my network administrator spends managing Exchange has gone down from 20% to about 5%. He's now more productive in other areas, which has accelerated the timeline on a number of deliverables critical to our day-to-day operations.”
- Bruce Haas, IT Director, K2 Sports
“The closest thing I could find to what we were looking for before I found Azaleos was completely outsourcing our messaging environment, and that was never going to happen. With HIPAA and other regulatory compliance issues, and our reliance on Active Directory, I was never going to give up control of our Exchange 2003 environment.”
- Rich DeBrino, CIO, Compass Health
“It's nice being able to sleep at night knowing Exchange is being monitored and fixed if necessary. With Azaleos, I don't have to worry about any late night phone calls or surprises when I get to work the next day.”
- Bruce Haas, IT Director, K2 Sports
“We're extremely pleased with the results we've seen so far from the Azaleos OneServer and OneStop services. In my business, I measure how good a system is by how often I don't hear about it. Since implementing Azaleos, I haven't heard one word about e-mail.”
- Rich DeBrino, CIO, Compass Health
“Managing e-mail servers can require many IT staff hours for both scheduled and unscheduled tasks such as monitoring server operations; installing e-mail, antispam, and antivirus updates; and supporting mobile users. Azaleos' managed messaging appliance and service help companies control messaging environments and related costs.”
- Mark Levitt, VP for Collaborative Computing, IDC
“In the past, we wouldn't have known about any problems with e-mail delivery until the user came to us, and we would have been patching the environment ourselves. The reality is, the monitoring service Azaleos provides is far superior to anything we could have done ourselves short of putting someone on full-time just to work through the night. The fact that we don't have to think about patching Exchange just makes life better, and we know it is being done right every time. It isn't cost effective to treat Exchange as a core competency and I don't know very many companies of any size that actually can say they have 7x24 monitoring of their e-mail environment.”
- Rich DeBrino, CIO, Compass Health
“With e-mail as the integral part of the business process across all industries, CIOs and IT directors are increasingly struggling with related management and maintenance issues. Azaleos' OneServer and OneStop services specifically focus on the Microsoft Exchange 2003 environment and provide customers with an on-premise messaging appliance with rich remote management. As far as we are aware, this is the first company that is offering this kind of a managed messaging appliance.”
- David Ferris, President & Senior Analyst, Ferris Research
“We're very pleased with the Azaleos OneServer and OneStop Services solution we deployed earlier this year. It's very reliable and provides us with enhanced security and mobility features we previously did not have. Most importantly, having this solution in place allows us to focus more closely on our core business. Before turning to Azaleos, we were devoting a lot of resources to making sure our messaging system was functioning optimally. By taking over the management of our Exchange Server, Azaleos' solution allows us to devote ourselves fully to our mission of providing behavioral health services to children, adults, and families in the four-county area.”
- Rich DeBrino, CIO, Compass Health
