Any disruption to your company email can bring business to a screeching halt. You need real-time messaging redundancy – a shadow version of every single transaction, attachment, appointment, contact, and task -- that can be retrieved in under 10 minutes. You need MailShadow 2.2.
Exchange Downtime: Not an Option
Face it…email is just the way business gets done—round-the-clock, every day of the week. Turn off your Microsoft Exchange servers and you turn off your business. Simple as that. And yet, with all the ongoing efforts to centralize Exchange, you probably have more people on fewer servers than ever before. Which means you’ve never been more vulnerable. An Exchange server failure could prove truly devastating. Even required maintenance and migration processes can bring your productivity to a halt.
There are many ways to improve the reliability and recoverability of Exchange, and you've probably taken some good steps in that direction. But are you really prepared for the planned downtime, much less a disaster?
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If you’ve tried file or block-level replication solutions for disaster recovery, you’ve almost certainly encountered difficulties—and perhaps even some extensive planned downtime. The problem is that traditional file or block-level solutions simply replicate everything—corruption and all—without performing data validation. So while reloading all that data might prove easy enough, the actual recovery time could stretch to hours, or even days, as you work to repair your Exchange information stores.
That makes for a very uncertain Recovery Time Objective (RTO)—and that hardly amounts to a disaster solution at all. That’s why we developed MailShadow®.
Unlike other traditional continuity solutions, MailShadow was created right from the start to meet the special requirements of the Exchange environments found in highly intensive, messaging-dependent enterprises.
Reduce the load on your WAN
Since Exchange is inherently transaction-oriented, MailShadow uses a scheme that first replicates MAPI transactions locally and then uses a highly efficient proprietary protocol to convert them to very compact packets for transmission to your recovery servers. The load placed on your WAN is dramatically reduced as a consequence.
Pick and choose which Mailboxes to Protect
MailShadow lets you replicate on a per-mailbox basis. This is in stark contrast to traditional continuity solutions, which work by mirroring every last block or file on your Exchange servers. Because of MailShadow’s unique approach, you can start out with a solution that replicates just your most critical mailboxes and then continue scaling up by protecting additional mailboxes over time according to your changing requirements and budget constraints.
Besides making Exchange Continuity considerably more affordable than it has been traditionally, this approach also results in dramatic improvements in DR reliability and RTO times.
Request a call today, and learn more about how you can protect your business with MailShadow 2.2.
Learn more about the problems that afflict traditional replication solutions in an Exchange environment:
