What We're Hearing from Industry Experts
“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
“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
“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
“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
“E-mail has moved from a nice-to-have application to a mission critical application over the past 5 years. Since business users can not afford to be without it, it is vital that they evaluate and select solutions and services that can meet their availability and disaster recovery requirements.”
- Donna Scott, VP and Distinguished Analyst, Gartner Inc.
“"If you are going to have Azaleos provide you with the OneServer and let them manage it, backup is a very logical extension of that. Backup is absolutely a critical activity."”
- Michael Osterman, Osterman Research