Messaging News - June 2008 - (Page 28)

MANAGED AND HOSTED MESSAGING data is protected and safeguarded from loss, misplacement, damage and manipulation. In today’s environment, online backup not only saves time and money, but ensures reliability and data integrity.” Osterman notes that archiving/ data retention is one issue and that recovery/discovery is a related, but somewhat different, issue. “While it is critically important to retain data according to corporate policies and other requirements, recovering that Hosting offers users control over access to their account and virtual domain environment, unlike shared hosting where security risks are inherent. [It] also offers you the benefits of a dedicated server at shared hosting prices. Additionally, you can buy as much computing power as you need from a virtually inexhaustible source.” Although EVault’s aim is to assist the SMB, Heitmann says that the EVault InfoStage Unified Recovery How Much Will It Cost? Common belief is that managed services cost more to engage than implementing the same solution-set in house. In the 2007 Concentric-sponsored whitepaper, A Guide to Understanding Hosted and Managed Messaging, Osterman Research wrote that many decision makers do not consider the complete cost of providing messaging functionality within their organization when comparing solutions—often underestimating Email spam traffic, perhaps even more so than DNS or Web traffic, can experience huge volume spikes, which can be devastating for businesses with dedicated servers or that utilize traditional shared service providers.”—Barbara Branaman, Concentric data, such as during e-Discovery, is often more difficult and involves more than just searching for data. As the volume of data increases, so does the need to have the discovery tools to find and recover it. This is where a company requires a multi-pronged toolset in order to find everything about a matter quickly and efficiently.” So Many Flavors to Choose From Concentric offers their patented Concentric Clustered Hosting, according to Branaman, “To eliminate the problems found in typical shared hosting environments.” Meant to replace shared hosting, VPS, and managed hosting, Concentric customers are protected from server capacity spikes or hardware failures. “Email spam traffic, perhaps even more so than DNS or Web traffic, can experience huge volume spikes, which can be devastating for businesses with dedicated servers or that utilize traditional shared service providers.” Clustered Hosting balances the load over multiple servers and keeps sites separated from one another. “It’s similar to partitions, but better because your site isn’t affected by other sites living on the same server,” Branaman explains. “Because traffic is balanced across multiple servers, reliability and availability of your site and email is greatly improved. Clustered 28 MESSAGING NEWS JUNE 2008 platform was designed to offer customers complete flexibility as their business and data protection requirements grow and change. “EVault offers customers backup and recovery in three different ways to best meet their current and future needs: 1) as a backup and recovery Software as a Service (SaaS), 2) as a licensed software or 3) as a hybrid managed service for businesses interested in owning the hardware/software, but preferring to have the backups managed at a secure data center by EVault experts.” Similarly, Concentric is designed to grow with an organization’s needs. “We have Perimeter Email Protection (PEP) customers with more than 1,500 seats,” offers Branaman. “Our hosted IT services are preferable to other shared platforms and more cost effective than in-house hardware and software.” the total amount of labor required to manage the system; the disruptive impact of outages and other unforeseen events; the true costs of capital expenditures; and the unexpected costs of managing a system. The maintenance of corporate messaging systems can be very costly depending on the size, geographic disbursement and individual user requirements of the organization. Osterman Research found that the total cost of ownership for a messaging system can range anywhere from $15 to $50 USD per seat (user), per month, and is much more in some cases. These costs fluctuate due to the inherent, unpredictable nature of messaging— virus outbreaks, unexpected server downtime, hacking, etc.—all have a significant potential to drive up the daily cost of messaging.

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Messaging News - June 2008 Editor’s Note Short Takes Classification & Retention Spam: Bigger, Faster, and More Dangerous Bad Behavior and Today’s Reputation Analysis The Changing Locus of Collaboration Serving Up Managed and Hosted Messaging Solutions “On Message” with Ben Gross SCAP Standard Benefits Both Government and Commercial Space Making the Case Learn More

Messaging News - June 2008

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