Azaleos Virtualized Exchange, BES and SharePoint Solutions

Azaleos leverages VMware and Hyper-V technology for customers looking for cost-effective physical hardware utilization and reduced power consumption requirements. Our service set isn't limited by this choice- Azaleos still delivers the same managed services for Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint and BlackBerry Enterprise Server with availability and disaster recovery options.

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Our virtualization approach minimizes the upfront hardware costs and the long-term server maintenance costs to the customer while offering the same load balancing and DR solutions available with physical infrastructure. Azaleos monitors both the host and guest environments and offers disaster-recovery options also monitored from our different NOCs. The Azaleos Hyper-V and VMware-based solutions offer the same set of SLAs as our physical infrastructure solutions and deliver enhanced performance for Exchange server as well as reduced operational costs.

Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Sharepoint, and BlackBerry Enterprise Servers are great targets for virtualization as a standalone project or as part of a server consolidation. Virtualization allows Azaleos to provide a low-cost, highly available virtual infrastructure for Microsoft Exchange 2007, which would normally require four physical servers just for the three primary server roles, on only two physical servers and one physical storage device.

High reliability and availability: Continue to leverage the same levels of reliabilty and availability from Exchange and SharePoint that you would on the standard physical platform version
Rapid Deployment: Through industry and Azaleos' innovation, the barriers that used to exist around being able to virtualize an Exchange or SharePoint environment have been removed and customers can now adopt and quickly realize the benefits of server virtualization for their corporate environments.
Consolidation: Clustered, highly available Exchange mailbox, client access, and hub transport roles available for deployment on two physical servers, supporting virtual Hyper-V (or VMware)environments on all major server hardware.
Performance: Exchange and SharePoint architecture can leverage more RAM resulting in major performance improvements. As a result (for example), Exchange 2007 performs better than Exchange 2003 inside a virtual machine. In many cases Exchange 2007 reduces disk I/O up to 70% over Exchange 2003 inside a virtual machine.
Reduced Exchange operational costs and Improved server utilization: The process of consolidating many small Exchange servers or server roles onto fewer physical servers helps to reduce hardware procurement and maintenance, and power costs for the IT environment.

Hyper-V/VMware Support Statement:
While Azaleos services are expected to function properly in a virtual environment, there may be performance implications which can invalidate typical sizing and recommendations. See the Azaleos "Virtualizing Exchange" whitepaper for more details.

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