Pair of products go after top messaging problems

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: MICHAEL OSTERMAN ON MESSAGING
07/21/05
Today's focus: Pair of products go after top messaging problems

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* Two products that address key messaging management problems
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Today's focus: Pair of products go after top messaging problems

By Michael Osterman

A recent Osterman Research survey found that two of the top five
problems in messaging management are viruses (and related
threats) and the growth in messaging storage requirements. Both
were cited as serious or very serious problems by more than half
of the organizations polled.

To help manage growth in e-mail storage, at least for Microsoft
Exchange environments, Lucid8 offers a product called
GoExchange. This is an automated maintenance tool for Exchange
databases that optimizes and repairs corrupted Exchange
databases, making Exchange much more reliable.

One of its key benefits is that it defragments these databases
to recover a significant amount of storage on Exchange servers.
A GoExchange customer recently told me that their e-mail storage
had grown from about 25G bytes in 2000 to 400G bytes in 2004.
After installing GoExchange, their storage requirement a year
later was still 400G bytes, indicating that they had saved
approximately 100G bytes of space compared to what their
requirement would have been without the product. For
slower-growing data stores, there can be actual reductions in
storage on the order of 25%.

To help resolve problems with viruses, worms and related
problems, Avinti offers its iSolation Server. This server runs
e-mail attachments in a virtual machine at the perimeter of a
network to test these attachments for suspicious behavior. Any
suspect messages are then quarantined so that they can be
cleaned of threats after a signature is available. Avinti claims
that the product was completely effective at stopping new
variants of MyDoom, Bagle and Netsky before signatures had been
developed for them.

The products discussed here are certainly not the only products
of their type, but two good examples of what e-mail
administrators can deploy to resolve two of the most serious
problems in messaging today. In the interest of full disclosure,
neither Lucid8 nor Avinti is a client of Osterman Research.

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To contact: Michael Osterman

Michael D. Osterman is the principal of Osterman Research
<http://www.ostermanresearch.com/>, a market research firm that
helps organizations understand the markets for messaging,
directory and related products and services. He can be reached
by clicking here <mailto:michael@ostermanresearch.com>
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