Updates to Azaleos QuickStart E-Mail Assessments Reduce Migration Cost and Complexity
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REDMOND, Wash., Aug. 21 -- Today, in Redmond, WA, Azaleos Corporation (www.azaleos.com), the leader in delivery of managed e-mail appliances for Microsoft Exchange, announced enhancements to QuickStart E-Mail Assessments, the most comprehensive service available to evaluate the health of an enterprise e-mail environment -- whether customers are running Lotus Notes/Domino, Microsoft Exchange, or Novell GroupWise. Additionally, Azaleos introduced the Azaleos Certified Expert (ACE) program to certify solution partners that would like to offer QuickStart E-Mail Assessments to their customers.
QuickStart E-Mail Assessments are a value-added service provided by Azaleos technicians and Azaleos Certified Experts (ACEs) who are trained in techniques to analyze enterprise e-mail systems and recommend corrective action to optimize enterprise e-mail infrastructure. A two-day service engagement results in a detailed plan describing to IT organizations how to get to a highly available e-mail environment, and provides recommendations on how to reduce e-mail costs by 20%. QuickStart E-Mail Assessments can also help those customers seeking a strategy to rapidly migrate to Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007 from earlier versions of Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes/Domino and Novell GroupWise, delivering a step-by-step migration plan.
"Azaleos' QuickStart E-Mail Assessments can help IT departments more easily quantify the costs of optimizing their e-mail systems," said Lee Benjamin, Analyst, Ferris Research, "Azaleos is leveraging their expertise of managing thousands of enterprise mailboxes and performing countless migrations to provide a one-stop shop for customers seeking to gain a highly available e-mail infrastructure."
Azaleos customers like Coinstar (www.coinstar.com), provider of business solutions for the retailer's front-of-store, have chosen to migrate from Lotus Notes to a managed Microsoft Exchange appliance from Azaleos.
"Moving from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange was a key strategic decision for Coinstar -- but before Azaleos the cost of migration and retraining our IT staff was prohibitive," said Christi Liebe, Vice President of Information Technology at Coinstar. "The Azaleos OneServer offers Coinstar a way to reduce the cost and complexity of migrating to an optimized Microsoft Exchange environment."
"Over the last year, Azaleos has discovered IT departments want the ability to deliver e-mail users highly reliable and robust e-mail, but are having difficulty quantifying the cost and complexity to get there," said Roger Gerdes, CEO of Azaleos. "QuickStart E-Mail Assessments are an accurate way for customers to quickly understand their current environment and identify clear steps to get a highly available e-mail environment."
Azaleos partners with key technology and solution partners, Azaleos Certified Experts (ACEs), to deliver a comprehensive, holistic approach to planning e-mail upgrades and migrations. Azaleos Certified Expert Binary Tree (www.binarytree.com), specializes in messaging and application assessment, migration and coexistence solutions for the Microsoft Exchange, Novell GroupWise and Lotus Notes platforms.
"By combining our industry leading toolset and assessment methodology with the Azaleos OneServer managed e-mail appliance, customers can rapidly identify the costs and complexities of migrating to Microsoft Exchange from Lotus Notes/Domino and Novell GroupWise," said Steven Pivnik, co-CEO of Binary Tree. "Binary Tree's 15 years of expertise working with successive releases of Lotus Notes/Domino, combined with managed Exchange appliances from the Exchange experts at Azaleos, smoothes and straightens the path to highly reliable, available Microsoft Exchange e-mail for customers of all sizes."
For more information about QuickStart E-Mail assessments or to become an Azaleos partner, visit the Azaleos Web Site at http://www.azaleos.com/
About Azaleos
Azaleos provides the only enterprise-class managed messaging solution combining a Microsoft® Exchange 2003 appliance with 24-7 remote maintenance, ensuring high reliability, availability and performance for your Exchange 2003 environment.
The Azaleos OneServer appliance and OneStop managed services offer unmatched uptime, proactive monitoring by Exchange experts, patch management, system fixes, and reporting. With Azaleos, your Exchange environment remains in your network and messaging just works, enabling your IT staff to focus on new initiatives that help you grow your business. A standardized, scalable solution, Azaleos managed e-mail appliances can be installed and running in less than a day.
Microsoft Gold Certified and Redmond, WA-based Azaleos Corporation, founded by Exchange experts in 2004, is led by senior executives from leading technology companies such as Microsoft, IBM and Lotus.
Contact:
Pia Chatterjee
415-977-1931
Source: Azaleos Corporation
Web site: http://www.azaleos.net/
