Low Bandwidth Consumption: Inexpensive DR Insurance

It’s almost like playing with the house’s money. You need DR protection for your Exchange servers—you’re already well aware of that. But the costs involved in acquiring, deploying and operating one of the traditional DR solutions tend to be prohibitive. But now—lucky you—MailShadow® offers better protection and a lower RTO for far less money. Just how much less? Try this on for size…MailShadow reduces the WAN overhead associated with the traffic that passes daily between your primary Exchange servers and your shadow recovery servers by so much that, over time, you may find that MailShadow more than pays for itself…just on the basis of this alone.

The thing is: 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 a select number of mailboxes. And MailShadow’s proprietary transport protocol also uses buffering, packet recombination and compression to ensure high throughput even over high-latency lines.

Then, in addition to the reduced WAN costs, MailShadow also works to help you save in other ways. For one thing, MailShadow lets you replicate protected mailboxes from any number of active Exchange servers to just a single live recovery server. And there’s also no need for that shadow server to be an exact duplicate of one of your active server configurations. Which is to say that, with MailShadow, you won’t need to spend nearly so much to rig out your recovery center as would be necessary with one of the traditional DR solutions. And 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 now there’s no excuse for you not to have an Exchange Exchange Migration solution in place because, with MailShadow, you actually can afford to look at DR in a whole new light. Think of it as eminently affordable insurance for your organization’s most important Outlook users—something you absolutely can rely upon in the event of a primary Exchange server failure. So, see? Maybe this really is your lucky day.