Simplified Storage for Microsoft Exchange

Reduce Exchange storage costs and simplify deployment using StorSimple

Introduction

Organizations rely upon Microsoft Exchange to power communications internally and externally. However, they struggle with the ever-increasing demand created by storage-hungry users and costs associated with building a resilient infrastructure for this mission critical application.

Email management has become a challenge due to regulatory compliance and retention, increases in content richness, and changes in how users retain and manage their email.

Traditional storage architectures are insufficient in providing the flexibility and cost metrics necessary to deploy Exchange at scale and fully take advantage of its integrated features including large mailboxes, PST consolidation and live archives, and database availability groups (DAG).

Benefits for Microsoft Exchange 2010 Deployments

The StorSimple appliance is designed to provide primary storage performance with cloud elasticity and economics for Microsoft Exchange 2010 deployments.

Integrated primary storage deduplication with SSDs and automated tiering ensure that mailbox servers receive the storage performance they need, and an on-ramp to the cloud enables organizations to take advantage of cloud elasticity and economics for both primary and backup storage.

Microsoft Exchange 2010 customers that deploy StorSimple benefit from:

• Simplify Deployment of Database Availability Groups and Reduce Cost
  Deployment of multiple mailbox servers with Database Availability Groups (DAG) requires multiple storage silos.
  
  StorSimple allows you to benefit from SSD performance with cloud elasticity and economics to more rapidly and cost-effectively deploy mailbox servers and fully leverage the high availability benefits of DAG.
  
  

• Provide Larger Mailboxes and Integrated Archives
  StorSimple appliances provide primary storage deduplication and compression with automated tiering and an on-ramp to cloud storage services to reduce storage costs.
  
  This allows Exchange administrators to provide the larger mailbox quotas that users desire while lowering costs to a degree where PST files can be centralized and integrated email archives within Exchange can be leveraged.
  
  

• Create Off-site Exchange Backup and Disaster Recovery Copies
  In addition to simplifying deployment of DAG and reducing cost, StorSimple allows you to quickly create disaster recovery and backup copies of Microsoft Exchange mailbox and archive data in the cloud, which can be accessed from any location where a StorSimple appliance is deployed.
  
  

• Reduce Exchange Management Costs
  Separate primary storage, archival, backup/restore and disaster recovery hardware means multiple separate management consoles.
  
  One integrated console makes it dramatically easier to manage the entire storage infrastructure, reducing overall management costs.
  
  

• Get the Recovery Point Objective and the Recovery Time Objective You Want at the Cost You Want
  StorSimple’s integrated snapshot technology enables instant and frequent backups of Exchange primary and archive mailbox databases, allowing you to deliver the RPO you want at the price you want for your virtualized infrastructure.
  
  StorSimple’s integrated snapshot technology delivers instant restore in seconds not hours. In the case of a disaster, Cloud Snapshots and Cloud Clones enable simple off-site disaster recovery.
  
  

• Flexible Email Recovery from the Cloud
  StorSimple’s Data Restore Console for Microsoft Exchange allows Exchange administrators to mount local snapshots, Cloud Snapshots, or Cloud Clones and perform item-level recovery should email be deleted or needed for electronic discovery, or should an entire mailbox be lost.