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ENow Announces new Exchange 2010 Monitoring and Reporting Features

Today ENow announced new Exchange 2010 monitoring and reporting functionality as part of their Feature Pack 1 release for Mailscape V4.5. Mailscape is an award-winning total systems management tool that combines Exchange monitoring, reporting, and administrative features in one solution. The most notable enhancement in this update is a new feature that allows administrators to verify, monitor and report on the hottest new Exchange 2010 feature —Database Availability Groups

The Mailscape Feature Pack 1 update also includes a new report that allows administrators to easily track storage growth over time and provides the ability to view the information from all levels in Exchange including organization, server, storage group and databases. Other updates include new OWA and ActiveSync auto functionality tests for Exchange 2003. Finally, some new public folder reports were introduced for Exchange 2007 and 2010 that enable administrators to address the challenge of cleaning up their public folder implementations. These reports make it easy to identify public folders that have not been used so the disk space can be reclaimed.


For more information on MailScape, please click on the url below:

http://www.flexnet.com/Exchange_Management_and_Monitoring/Exchange_Management.htm

Discovery Attender V3.6 is Now Available

Discovery Attender version 3.6 is ready for download. This version rolls up all hot fixes from version 3.5 and contains new features including searching by custom message class. The methodology for updating databases has been completely revised, enhancing Discovery Attender's stability and performance.

In addition, Discovery Attender now includes the Beta version of the Sherpa PreSearch Tool. This utility is designed to automate common tasks without running a search. Highlights include the pre-search deduplication of PSTs, exporting from Exchange Mailboxes and converting NSFs or OSTs to PSTs.

For more information on Discovery Attender, please click on the url below: http://www.flexnet.com/Email_Discovery/Email-Discovery-Attender.htm

Ensim Unify Adds SharePoint Manager and OCS Group Chat Manager

Two of the most painful IT headaches are caused by user provisioning and de-provisioning across all the systems and resources employees need to do their jobs. The former is time-consuming, error-prone, and tedious; the latter poses multiple security risks and compliance issues.

Ensim Unify is far and away the leader in this category, going well beyond Active Directory to encompass all the components of your Unified Communications infrastructure: Exchange 2003/2007/2010, Office Communications Server (OCS), BlackBerry Enterprise Server, and cloud-bases services such as Google Apps. Unify is a modular solution that enables IT to achieve three major objectives:

-Enhance security by removing manual processes
-Reduce compliance risk by enforcing corporate policy
-Improve IT efficiency by decreasing workload
Ensim has just extended Unify's capabilities to SharePoint and the new Group Chat features of OCS.

Read all about SharePoint Manager here and OCS Group Chat Manager here.

TVS Extends its Lead in Archive Migration Software

A variety of business and technical concerns (mergers and acquisitions, under-performing archive systems, the releases of EV8 from Symantec and SourceOne from EMC, etc) drove very strong demand for archive migrations in 2009. That growth is continuing to accelerate in 2010. TVS is staying ahead of the wave with the recent release of TransVault v5.

TransVault v5 adds new connectors for EMC SourceOne and Microsoft Exchange 2010. The latter connector is in direct response to demand from unregulated companies planning to eliminate their archive system and restore their data to Exchange 2010, either on-premise or in the cloud (Microsoft BPOS).

V5 also includes a new and extensible reporting platform that enables advanced progress tracking and chain-of-custody auditing so customers can be absolutely certain nothing is missed or altered during the archive migration process - a vital consideration for compliance and data discovery requirements.

For more information on Transvault, please click on the url below:
http://www.flexnet.com/Email_Archive_Migration/Email_Archive_Migration.htm

Or please email us to learn more about Transvault. We also have an archive migration checklist to help you plan your archive migration.

Ensim Unify allows you to deploy OCS & Group Chat Without Compromising Security and Compliance Initiatives

Ensim Unify allows you to deploy OCS & Group Chat without compromising security and compliance initiatives and without burdening IT resources.

OCS Manager provides:

• Role-based delegation ensures efficiency in IT operations.
• Automation applies business process rules and enforces IT policy to ensure compliance.
• Ongoing change management is simplified while enforcing security standards

Administrative Functionality:
• Configure federation
• PRX integration
• Allow/withhold public IM connectivity
• Configure archiving for different types of users
• Allow/withhold public IM connectivity
• Permit anonymous participants by chat room or chat category
• Automatically add users to a chat room category as a member or manager during the provisioning process based on userole


Provisioning Automation:
• Create/update chat rooms
• Create/update chat categories
• Add/remove members in existing chat room
• Assign managers to new/existing chat room(s) and delegate add/remove member privileges to them
• Ability to add/remove managers in an existing chat room

For more information on OCS Manager, Please click on the url below:
http://www.flexnet.com/OCS_Provisioning/OCS_Management.htm

Capacity Planning for the Cloud

Joshua Hoffman, lead geek at AppAssure Software, recently highlighted a really interesting podcast. The podcast, hosted by Dana Gardner of E-Commerce Times, discusses the changing approach to capacity planning that has begun to develop as a result of cloud computing’s rising star.

Joining Dana in the conversation is Neil Ashizawa, manager of HP's Software as a Service (SaaS) Products and Cloud Solutions. Dana and Neil discuss the fact that, as a result of the ability of cloud computing environments to be elastic – that is, to expand and contract themselves based on need and demand – the way that we, as IT professionals, plan those environments needs to change.

Neil put it the following way:

Old-fashioned capacity planning focuses on the peak usage of the application, and it had to, because when you were deploying applications in-house, you had to take into consideration that peak usage case. At the end of the day, you had to be provisioned correctly with respect to compute power. Oftentimes with long procurement cycles, you'd have to plan for that.

In the cloud, because you have this idea of elasticity, where you can scale up your compute resources when you need them, and scale them back down, obviously that adds another dimension to old-school capacity planning.

This obviously has some wide-reaching implications on virtually every aspect of IT infrastructure planning (including how we plan for demand on our Exchange servers, web servers, SQL servers and so on.) And needless to say, our adoption of virtualization technology has a substantial impact as well.

For more information on all of the AppAssure Software Products, Please click on the url below:

http://www.flexnet.com/Appassure/Appimage.htm