Protecting Microsoft Exchange in physical AND virtual environments
Businesses of all sizes, from multinational enterprises to small and midsize businesses, are using the messaging and collaboration features of Microsoft Exchange to run business functions that if lost, for even a short amount of time, can result in severe business disruption.When these businesses look at high availability solutions to protect key business applications, Exchange is often the first application targeted for protection.
Improving the availability of Exchange involves reducing or eliminating the many potential causes of downtime. Planned downtime is less disruptive since it can be scheduled for nights or weekends – when user activity is much lower. Unplanned downtime, on the other hand, tends to occur at the worst possible times and can impact the business severely. Unplanned downtime can have many causes including hardware failures, software failures, operator errors, data loss or corruption and site outages. To successfully protect Exchange you need to ensure that no single point of failure can render Exchange servers, storage or network unavailable.
Visit http://www.247uptime.co.uk/product_videos_and_webinars.htm and download a recent white paper explaining how to identify your failure risk points. The paper highlights industry best practices to reduce or eliminate failure risk points, depending on your organisation’s Exchange availability needs, resources and budget.
Tags: High Availability, Microsoft
