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| Dell, Symantec Go on Offense Against Out-of-Control Email Dell and Symantec have joined forces to deliver a one-two punch to out-of-control email. As businesses grapple with securing and managing their IT infrastructures, the companies today announced Secure Exchange, an end-to-end offering that takes time and complexity out of deploying a secure, reliable Microsoft Exchange environment with extensive archiving capabilities. Secure Exchange, an industry-first validated offering, is based on the Microsoft Exchange expertise Dell has gained from migrating more than four million Exchange and Active Directory mailboxes. The offering includes a jointly engineered reference architecture with hardware and software, expanded services and sizing tools that provide a step-by-step blueprint to simplify data security, backup, recovery and archiving. Secure Exchange is made up of Dell PowerEdge servers, PowerVault storage, Dell/EMC storage and Symantec products, including Symantec Mail Security 8200 Series, Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange, Symantec Enterprise Vault, and Backup Exec. Dell services are tailored for each offering. The need for effective email management is evident with the nearly 84 billion emails being sent daily worldwide in 2006, according to IDC. Today, occurrences of viruses are commonplace and spam accounts for 75-90 percent of an organization's email. Additionally, looming regulatory compliance deadlines require email archiving. According to Gartner, 50 percent of medium-sized companies are not putting enough funding behind compliance activities. The Secure Exchange reference architecture is a guide for mid-sized customers with 500 to 2.000 users or more who want to deploy secure and available email infrastructures without the work of creating their own. Engineers combined hardware and software to test the interoperability of all components and performance so customers can predictably deploy modular or complete solutions. The knowledge and empirical data from those efforts were applied to the Exchange Advisor, a Dell-designed sizing tool that enables customers to scope configuration and implementation needs for performance or availability. Dell also expanded assessment, design, implementation and training services to help customers easily deploy Microsoft Exchange and Symantec solutions. Additionally, Dell's enterprise support offering, Platinum Plus, as well as Gold Enterprise Support, is available to customers deploying Secure Exchange. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Computing News :: home page |