Strategic Acquisition Model: Purchased per Mailbox

You know how essential email is to the way business gets done at your organization. So you also know that Exchange downtime is truly not an option. And yet, when you take a look at what a reliable DR solution is going to cost, you wonder how you’re ever going to manage to afford that. Well, at least that’s how it used to be. Because now MailShadow® gives you a way to protect the organization’s most critical Outlook users at a cost you can definitely afford.

There actually are many things MailShadow does to help you contain the costs of risk management. First and foremost, MailShadow gives you an Exchange-centric replication solution that you can license on a per-mailbox basis. That means that you can start out with a solution that replicates just your most critical mailboxes, thus giving you a way to acquire immediate protection for your most important users at a cost you can manage. Then, over time, as you work to improve the overall reliability of your Exchange infrastructure, you can continue scaling up your replication solution by protecting additional mailboxes according to your changing requirements—and your budget constraints.

Another MailShadow feature that promises you substantial savings is the ability to replicate a select subset of mailboxes from a number of different primary Exchange servers to a single Exchange recovery server. Traditional DR solutions generally require that you either faithfully replicate every single aspect of your primary Exchange environment or that you purchase some very expensive SAN equipment for your recovery environment. You’re going to end up getting soaked either way. No need to fret, though, because MailShadow makes no such requirement of you.

And then you’ll find that the savings just keep on coming because MailShadow works to minimize the amount of bandwidth required to handle your ongoing replication requirements. For one thing, MailShadow transmits transactions only once, whereas traditional file replication solutions transmit the same data multiple times (in the form of both transaction .log files and .edb files, for example). The MailShadow approach is to pass along only transaction-specific information for the selected mailboxes. With just the resulting savings in WAN bandwidth alone—repeated from one month to the next—you may find that MailShadow more than pays for itself.

But even that’s not all. MailShadow also delivers recurring savings in the form of reduced administrative overhead. In part, that’s because MailShadow’s software management approach has been designed to be intuitive for Exchange administrators and is entirely consistent with the Active Directory management scheme. It also helps that MailShadow is so easy and safe to use that there’s no need for end-user training. So you’ll just have to start thinking about what you’re going to do with all that extra time and money. And for that, you have our humblest apologies.