Sun and Microsoft Rolled Out Infrastructure Solution For Exchange Server
Sun Microsystems and Microsoft set new milestone recently when the Sun Infrastructure Solution for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 was announced for enterprise customers and also expanded their three-year partnership by unveiling the Sun/Microsoft Interoperability Center on the Microsoft campus. More information on the Sun Infrastructure Solutions for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 is available at http://www.sun.com/exchange and http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/bb412164.aspx.
“The new Sun/Microsoft Interoperability Center will help provide our joint customers with a testbed for running key Microsoft applications on Sun’s x64 servers and help ensure more seamless integration between the technologies,” said Lisa Sieker, vice president of Systems Marketing, Sun Microsystems. “Additionally, with the new Infrastructure Solution for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Sun’s expertise in x64 servers, storage and 64-bit database architectures will enable customers to significantly reduce e-mail TCO and ease the transition to the new 64-bit product.”
Features and Benefits of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
- 64-bit Architecture: Increases usage to a maximum of 32 GB of server RAM, enabling support for more concurrent users and more data in cache.
- Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR): Ensures business continuity while requiring far less expensive storage by continuously replicating data between active and passive email databases.
- Server Roles: Allocates specific jobs to dedicated servers to maximize performance.
- Compliance: Policy engine prohibits or requires certain activities, and enables journaling for retention, archive, and deletion policy enforcement.
- Wireless Email: ExchangeActiveSync (EAS) protocol allows for push email and real-time sync with calendars, contacts, and tasks.
- Increased Email Security: Provides improved security layers, filtering, anti-virus scanning, and encryption capabilities.
The Sun/Microsoft Interoperability Center includes optimization of Microsoft applications on Sun x64 systems and storage and promotion of full interoperability in application areas such as virtualization, Java technology, systems management and identity.
Source: Sun Microsystem
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