Azaleos Wins Two Prestigious Industry Awards for Hybrid Managed Messaging Service
6/16/2008
SEATTLE, Wash., June 16, 2008 - Azaleos® Corporation, the managed Microsoft messaging services company, today announced that it has been honored by two of the most respected publications in the technology industry – eWEEK and Windows IT Pro. Last week Azaleos Services for Exchange Server received the eWEEK Excellence Award in the Collaboration Category, while the customer server Virtual Edition appliance garnered the “Best of Tech•Ed 2008 IT Professional Award” in the messaging category from Windows IT Pro® and SQL Server Magazine®.
Azaleos provides 24X7 monitoring, management, and maintenance services for Microsoft Exchange Servers deployed behind customer firewalls. Virtual Edition is a service endpoint appliance for the company’s remote management services.
Benefits of Hybrid Approach Win Accolades
According to eWEEK, “It makes a lot of sense for organizations to turn to hosted providers for key IT services such as e-mail. Unless you're in the business of maintaining an e-mail server infrastructure (and most firms are not), you should take a hard look at delegating those chores to a firm that does specialize in them. However, the remote nature of SAAS can present particular challenges, such as performance issues stemming from excessive latency on your Internet connection and regulatory challenges associated with storing your vital data outside of your firewall. Enter this year's Excellence Awards winner in the Collaboration category, Azaleos' Services, which offers a beneficial mixture of SAAS and on-premises virtues by enabling organizations to deploy Exchange e-mail in the form of a hardware appliance that lives on your premises, but that is remotely managed—and backed up—by Azaleos.
Virtualized Exchange Server
Best of Tech•Ed 2008 IT Professional Award winners were chosen based on innovation, competitive advantage, and value to customers. “In the Messaging category the winner is Azaleos customer server Virtual Edition. Our judges liked the features of this innovative virtual appliance, ranging from its polished interface to its wealth of management and analysis options,” said Windows IT Pro Editors.
Azaleos customer server Virtual Edition uses VMware Infrastructure to reduce the number of physical servers required to deploy Exchange 2007 from four to two. It also provides easy image replication for disaster recovery. This functionality reduces both hardware and power costs, allows faster deployment, and improves availability and reliability.
“Winning two of the industry’s most coveted enterprise IT awards in one week is a powerful validation of our hybrid approach to managed messaging services and the value we provide to customers,” said Keith McCall, CTO of Azaleos. “eWEEK and Windows IT Pro are two of the most respected data center and Windows technology publications in the world. This is a major accomplishment for us.”
About the eWEEK Excellence Awards
The eWEEK Excellence Awards program provides the benchmark by which enterprise IT professionals can assess a wide range of technology products and services. A panel of eWEEK editors judged the entries this year. They applied their industry and technology expertise to their evaluation of the hundreds of products and services entered into the program. The entries were evaluated based on:
- Innovation
- Practical integration of emerging technologies
- Suitability to task
- Cost effectiveness
- Potential for helping companies create business efficiencies
- Manageability
- Potential for helping companies develop competitive advantage
- Secureability
About the Best of Tech•Ed 2008 Awards
The Best of Tech•Ed 2008 Awards recognize companies who offer innovative products in the industry. The judges reviewed over 220 products and services submitted for the contest and chose 29 finalists to be interviewed at the Tech•Ed 2008 IT Professionals Conference in Orlando, Fla.
Azaleos Managed Services
Azaleos Managed Services provide the most complete and reliable set of remotely managed services for Exchange, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Blackberry Enterprise Server, and Active Directory. The Azaleos services model allows customers to keep hardware and data secure on their corporate premise, while outsourcing the monitoring and management headaches and costs. In addition to the core monitoring and management of Exchange Server, the Azaleos services include:
About Azaleos
Azaleos Corporation provides the benefits of hosted e-mail and collaboration services for organizations that can’t or won’t allow their data to reside outside the datacenter. Azaleos’ 24X7X365 remotely managed services for Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, Active Directory, Office Communications Server, and BlackBerry Enterprise Server keep information on-premise and under IT control, while uptime, maintenance, and support is handled by experts in its network operations centers.
More than 150 companies from Fortune 500 to mid-market enterprises rely on Azaleos and its patented ViewX technology to manage their collaboration infrastructures and address issues before users ever know they exist. Azaleos is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner, and one of Microsoft’s top 35 partners in the US. For more information visit www.azaleos.com.
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