Ironically enough, this blog gets more traffic than our corporate web site so I’m very happy to share with you another great accomplishment: ExchangeDefender v3.1. Why happy? Because I feel this release pretty much crushes all of our competition in the SMB market when it comes to business continuity concerns. I’ve had the pleasure of being the DR headquarters for every hurricane, mud slide, terrorist attack, act of Bell South incompetence and then some – and the first thing that people want to get to when their stuff falls apart is email. Really, once we get our ducks in a row we think about our business, our customers, and how to contact them. Email, even so beyond web, is the most critical piece of communications infrastructure you’ve got.
So for years I went around and asked people what would help, what we could do, what would fit the budget. And well, a few years later, dirt cheap bandwidth, inexpensive servers and some ingenuity… ExchangeDefender now delivers live archive functionality that lets you read, respond, send and manage past 7 days of your email at any point. Server went down? Hit the live archive box at ExchangeDefender via web/ssl. Mailbox corrupt and Outlook or OWA won’t start for that user Chad? Hit the live archive box at ExchangeDefender via web/ssl. Entire office trailer fell off the cliff? You’ve guessed it, hit the live archive box at ExchangeDefender via web/ssl.
Whats nice about the implementation is how gentle it is. While the original message is still in stream (or in queue if the server is down) a copy of it is spooled to our live archive box. It works constantly, in background, in the cloud, and requires no action on the users part at all. If they can figure out Hotmail, they can figure out this. The second nice thing about this is that the archive is live – meaning it will keep on receiving messages even if your server is down. That means you can use the archive mail server to send/receive/respond to mail for days without anyone knowing what happened. Third thing is auditing – auth trail, timestamps, etc – full control over whats going on. No plain text password or username access… EVER. Email is in the ExchangeDefender cloud so its secure, encrypted..
Oh, I forgot a small detail. It’s friggin FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
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