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Hitachi Data Systems offers multiple solutions to build a resilient Microsoft Exchange environment, ranging from best practices in deploying and managing a robust e-mail solution, protecting the e-mail environment via distance replication and/or rapid recovery, through to archiving e-mail for regulatory compliance. Hitachi storage solutions support large and small Exchange environments while providing advanced levels of protection and business continuity that meet escalating yet diverse demands and challenges that organizations and administrators face on a daily basis.

Hitachi Data Systems actively participates in the Microsoft Exchange Solution Reviewed Program (ESRP). This program was established by Microsoft to help users evaluate the effectiveness of storage solutions in supporting highly available messaging infrastructures.

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E-mail applications are mission critical for companies of all sizes. Designing a messaging solution that performs well and is scalable, reliable and highly available is a challenging goal. Straightforward storage deployment and ease of ongoing management become important operational considerations for system designers and administrators. Microsoft Exchange Server solutions designed using hardware and software from Hitachi make it possible to achieve these challenging objectives.

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Ensuring Cost-effective, High-performance Storage Deployments for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Environments

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Storage’s Pivotal Role in Microsoft® Exchange Environments: The Important Benefits of SANs

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Effectively monitoring, managing, and maintaining mission-critical Exchange environments are increasingly difficult tasks for email and storage administrators. Challenges include managing availability, scaling quickly to keep pace with changing user requirements, meeting tight backup windows, and protecting critical systems from attacks on privacy, security, and integrity. These and other obstacles can become more difficult as Exchange environments continue grow in size and scope at staggering rates.

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Monitoring and Managing Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 on the Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 Family

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Exchange Server 2007: Monitoring and Managing Made Easy

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Hitachi HiCommand® Storage Services Manager Software

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Hitachi Tuning Manager

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HDS Microsoft Partner

Microsoft Exchange Server is unique among enterprise applications. No other piece of software is relied on by so many people in the organization. For many, availability of Exchange Server functionality is critical to the day-to-day operation of the business. Take away Exchange Server and many organizations come to a standstill.

Hitachi Data Systems provides flexible, best of breed protection solutions that are built upon industry-leading, innovative replication technologies and tightly integrate with Microsoft specifications and services, such as VSS and MSCS.

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Hitachi Storage Cluster for Windows Server 2003

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Protecting Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 Family and Exchange 2007 Environments with Continuous Replication

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HDS Microsoft Partner

Microsoft Exchange servers are under increased load from the sheer volume of e-mails being sent, received and stored. The increased amount of email often negatively affects capacity and scalability planning. In addition, companies face growing challenges around email retention, internal governance policies, compliance requirements and e-discovery. Any lack of attention to these internal and external factors places these companies at greater risk.

The Hitachi Content Archive Platform (HCAP) provides a robust and highly scalable solution for Microsoft Exchange archiving requirements - Either as a direct target for MS-Exchange journaling or in concert with HDS’ e-mail archive software partners. HDS’ ecosystem of e-mail archiving software partners offers several key capabilities: :

Mailbox management: Offload less-frequently accessed e-mails and files from Exchange to the Hitachi Content Archive Platform to dramatically reduce backup windows and cut operational costs
Flexible records retention policies that set retention on emails and attachments to meet both internal governance and compliance regulations
Legal discovery support, integrated search and management tools for rapid legal discovery

The Hitachi Content Archive Platform (HCAP) adds to these:

Direct archiving from Microsoft Exchange via MS-Exchange journaling and SMTP ingest capabilities. This, coupled with optional HCAP search feature, enables comprehensive, compliant archiving solution for many organizations
“Write Once Read Many” (WORM) storage, ensuring archived content can never be changed or altered
Retention management -honors any retention policy passed on by an email archiving or management application to meet corporate governance and compliance requirements and prevent premature e-mail deletion
Encryption of data at rest to ensure data security by transparently encrypting all content, metadata, and search indexes and provide additional protection for content stored in HCAP
Duplicate Elimination – identifies and removes duplicate for increased storage optimization
Replication services for disaster recovery - Bi-directional replication between two systems for all archive files, metadata and policies

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