Replay 4 - The Next Generation Backup and Recovery Software form AppAssure Software

AppAssure Software is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Replay 4 – the next generation backup and recovery platform from AppAssure Software. Frankly we think this is the best server backup software!

• This latest release of Replay enables you to:
  Reduce hardware and storage costs with cloud backups, leveraging powerful new virtualization, compression, replication and de-duplication technology.


• Implement a fault tolerant datacenter in the cloud for less than 10% the cost of traditional hardware-based solutions.


• Make day-to-day management of your environment easier with a centralized enterprise console for managing distributed infrastructures including remote offices.
  

The existing suite of Replay products, including Replay for Windows, Replay for Exchange, and Replay for SQL have all been updated to include the benefits of the new Replay 4 platform. We're also excited to announce the addition of the following four brand new products as well:

Replay for Small Business Server is an application-aware, server-based disk imaging solution that automatically and continuously images your entire Windows Small Business Server and includes integrated support for Microsoft Exchange and SQL, helping small businesses recover from disasters and system failures in minutes, instead of hours or days.

Replay for Hyper-V is an enterprise-class backup and disaster recovery solution designed for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V environments. It supports both host and guest backup methodologies while delivering backup & recovery, advanced disaster recovery and replication capabilities all in one solution. With Replay for Hyper-V, the entire host, select volumes and individual files within virtual machines can be restored.

Replay for Windows Desktops simplifies and automates backup and restore processes, while giving an administrator the ability to remotely monitor and manage geographically distributed machines from a single console. Based on Replay's disk imaging and bare metal restore technologies, Replay for Windows Desktops gives end users the ultimate control in performing self-service recovery of files, folders, or systems, in minutes.-

Replay Replication enables a powerful cloud-based application recovery solution by allowing you to securely and efficiently ship your backup snapshots into the cloud.

To make Replay 4 even more affordable, AppAssure has taken several significant steps including:

• Unlimited mailbox protection and single message restoration for each Replay for Exchange license.-A new licensing model providing monthly subscriptions is now available


• The release of three totally free tools to make it easier for IT administrators to do their jobs:
  
• For Exchange Admins: free single message recovery for Exchange with MailRetriever Lite


• For SharePoint Admins: free document recovery for Sharepoint with DocRetriever


• For Hyper-V Admins: the first tool in our Hyper-V Toolset, VHD Mount ShellExtension
  

Existing customers can upgrade for free to Replay 4 with the purchase of Replay Replication at just $359 per server. New customers are eligible for a free external 2TB NAS storage device (certain conditions apply).

To read more about AppAssure software full suite of product, please click on the following link:http://www.flexnet.com/Appassure/Appimage.htm

Five Key OCS Provisioning Challenges

Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 (OCS) uses the power of software to streamline business communications with presence awareness, instant messaging, conferencing, and enterprise voice. Microsoft’s #1 initiative in 2010 is to raise awareness of the benefits – and to increase adoption – of OCS.

OCS delivers significant improvements to productivity and collaboration, but it can be complicated to implement and difficult to manage day-to-day. Most mid- to large-sized organizations will find it virtually impossible to handle ongoing provisioning requests manually through the native interface.

Ensim Corp has published a new white paper that describes five key OCS provisioning challenges and how Unify’s OCS Manager addresses each challenge. If you use OCS today, or if you are planning to implement OCS, you need to read this white paper.

Click here to request a copy: http://www.flexnet.com/whitepaperDL/OCS_Deployment_White_Paper.htm

Mailscape V4.5 Delivers Customizable Reporting and Proactive Monitoring

Mailscape is a complete systems management tool that combines all the key elements for Exchange monitoring, reporting and administration into a single, affordable solution. The highly-anticipated launch of V4.5 delivers customizable reporting that gives administrators complete flexibility in not only how they create reports, but also how they disseminate the information. Traditional reporting products only allow you to email a report, resulting in static data, but with Mailscape V4.5‟s Personalized Dashboards, each key role in your organization can have access to only the reports they need to see via our one-look dashboard that automatically self-generates.

In addition, our proactive monitoring capabilities go beyond traditional tools that only monitor basic components, such as service availability and uptime. Mailscape V4.5 performs regular health checks of all the vital components in your messaging system, such as mail flow, OWA, and BlackBerry, to ensure they are functioning optimally.

"One of the many challenges faced by the reporting industry is developing software that is customizable enough to meet the unique needs every organization has," remarks Curtis Blake, ENow‟s Chief Technology Officer. "The beauty of our solution is that it gives you that customization, yet remains simple enough so that everyone can use it without training."

"The graphical display of data makes it easy enough that the Help Desk can quickly diagnose the cause of a problem and take a more active role in monitoring the system. Plus, the customizable reporting makes it easy to create very complex queries," states Lasse Pettersson, Exchange MVP. "Overall, Mailscape is a very impressive solution, and one that sets itself apart from the competition."

To learn more about MailScape v4.5 come see us at:

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