Microsoft Exchange Solutions
- Large enterprises
- Small and mid-size companies
- Virtualized Exchange environments
- Lower IT cost
- Enable greater efficiency and flexibility
- Increase productivity
Flexibility
Simplicity and Efficiency
Application Services
Solution Description
Challenge
Within many Microsoft Exchange environments, IT organizations are struggling to successfully address the challenges associated with increasing users and data, cost, and management complexity while being hindered by inflexible infrastructures and siloed environments. Many organizations are turning to virtualization for more efficient, agile, and flexible IT operations.
Application Solution
EMC solutions for Microsoft Exchange and our unified communications reduce the cost and complexity of your messaging environment. They combine best-in-class hardware and software with a complete portfolio of services to help you increase service levels, protect data, simplify deployment and management, and derive the most value from your email information.
In fact, EMC has won the Partner of the Year award 21 times and has achieved 16 gold and silver competencies including many related to Exchange, unified communications, and virtualization.
EMC has developed many EMC Proven Solutions that document best practices for confidently deploying and managing virtualized Microsoft environments including:
- Performance, scalability, and efficiency
- Backup, recovery, and deduplication
- Archiving
- Data protection
Performance, Scalability, and Efficiency
In the planning and design phases of a Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 implementation or upgrade, it's important to understand how the application interacts with the storage platform and virtualization technologies. It's also critical to know which practices to follow to avoid problems and achieve the best performance.
From a storage design perspective, the application architecture and user profile characteristics of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 are significantly different from earlier versions of Exchange (2003 and 2007). Microsoft has made significant changes to the Exchange Server 2010 storage schema to accommodate new, high-availability scenarios and larger mailboxes with fewer input/output operations per second (IOPS).
Understanding Exchange Server 2010 I/O and bandwidth characteristics is key to design an efficient storage configuration. Having developed many best practices and Proven Solutions, EMC can help organizations to accelerate Exchange 2010 deployments and migrations.
Backup, Recovery, and Deduplication
EMC backup, recovery, archiving, and deduplication solutions help to centralize and streamline backup and recovery for virtualized Exchange environments. Our solutions support organizations' backup and recovery needs and operational management requirements.
With EMC backup and recovery solutions for Microsoft, you can quickly and easily recover Exchange to any point in time or consolidate Exchange backup and recovery operations by centralizing, streamlining, and automating your data protection.
Archiving
EMC offers cost-effective archiving and compliance solutions for Exchange for regulatory compliance and automated data movement over tiered storage. Our solutions enable you to safely build an information infrastructure that meets compliance demands, reduces your legal risk, and enables better total cost of ownership (TCO) while accelerating retrieval of historical email.
Data Protection
With EMC solutions for Exchange data protection and business continuity, you can build and deploy a resilient infrastructure for your mission-critical virtualized Exchange environments. Our business continuity solutions help you to address increasing user requirements for higher levels of services, avoid costly outages, and recover from disasters in minutes or hours instead of days.
Partners
Accelerate Exchange to the cloud with help from the following EMC partners:
Microsoft
The EMC-Microsoft technology alliance focuses on developing best practices and solutions to virtualize Microsoft applications and transform them to the cloud.
Related Offerings
Products
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Data Domain
Leverage deduplication storage systems for next-generation backup, recovery, and archiving.
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Replication Manager
Automate the entire data replication process through a centralized management console with EMC Replication Manager replication software.
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EMC SourceOne Archiving Family
Reduce costs, improve operational efficiency, mitigate risk and enable litigation readiness.
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Symmetrix VMAX Family
Make high-end networked storage part of your information infrastructure with systems that take performance, availability, and security to new heights.
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VNX Family
Get affordable, high-performance unified storage with innovative storage software to realize efficient solutions that are optimized for virtual applications.
Services
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Application Services
Develop and migrate applications, manage content, and deploy and manage desktops.
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Application Virtualization
Increase IT utilization and efficiency and manage upgrades and backups more easily through application virtualization.
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Enterprise Messaging and Unified Communications
Leverage enterprise architecture, design, and deployment expertise across core Exchange and unified communications technologies with EMC Consulting.
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Microsoft Infrastructure Optimization
Create a simplified, centrally managed infrastructure for your Microsoft server and desktop environments.
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Private Cloud and Virtualization Consulting
Gain business agility and flexible, enterprise-scale virtualization for IT with private cloud.
Solutions
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SharePoint Solutions
Enable advanced collaboration and deliver higher-quality service and lower total cost of ownership of virtualized Microsoft SharePoint environments.
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Microsoft SQL Server Solutions
Ensure performance, scalability, quality of service, simplified management, and protection of your virtualized Microsoft applications and databases.
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Microsoft Virtualization and Private Cloud Solutions
Ensure performance, scalability, quality of service, simplified management, and protection of your virtualized Microsoft applications and databases.
Resources
Analyst Reports
- Enterprise Strategy Group: EMC's VNX Family - A Unifying Force in Storage
- The Radicati Group: Benefits of Consolidating and Virtualizing Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint in a Private Cloud Environment
White Papers
- White Paper: Commentary: The Efficiency of SANS in a Microsoft Exchagne Environment
- Microsoft Exchange 2010 Storage Best Practices and Design Guidelines for EMC Storage
- White Paper: EMC Infrastructure for Microsoft Private Cloud
- White Paper: The Essential Guide to Exchange and the Private Cloud
Customer Profiles
Guides
Product Demos
Service Overviews
- Service Overview: EMC Assessment for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Upgrade/Migration
- Service Overview: EMC Upgrade/Migration to Microsoft Exchange 2010 Service
Solution Overviews
- Solution Overview: EMC SourceOne Solutions for Microsoft Exchange 2010
- Solution Overview: EMC Zero-Data Loss Protection for Microsoft Exchange 2010
- Solution Overview: Microsoft Exchange 2010: Zero-Data-Loss Virtualization and Replication
Videos
Technical Documents
- Proven Solution Guide: EMC Business Continuity for Microsoft Exchange 2010 - Enabled by EMC Unified Storage and Microsoft Database Availability Groups
- Technical Documentation: EMC Virtual Infrastructure for Microsoft Exchange 2010 - Enabled by EMC Symmetrix VMAX, VMware vSphere 4, and EMC Replication Manager
More
News & Blogs
News
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May 4, 2011
EMC Enhances Management of Virtualized Microsoft Applications -
November 9, 2010
New EMC Information Infrastructure Solutions for Microsoft Hyper-V Help Customers Accelerate the Journey to the Private Cloud
Blogs
Learning & Events
Learn
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On-Demand Event
Boost Backup for Microsoft Applications with EMC NetWorker -
On-Demand Event
Top Five Reasons to Deploy Virtualized Microsoft Applications on EMC VNX Family -
On-Demand Event
Intelligent Enterprise Capture for SharePoint 2010
Attend
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May 21-24, 2012
EMC World 2012Las Vegas, NV -
June 11-14, 2012
Microsoft TechEd North America 2012Orlando, FL