Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Metalogix Announces Release of Replicator for SharePoint 5.0 With Innovative Patent Pending Features For Geo-Dispersed Multi-Server SharePoint Replication

New Features Including Adaptive Replication and Compression Address The Needs of Multi-Server SharePoint Environments and Reduce Network Overhead Costs

Metalogix Software, the trusted provider of content lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft® SharePoint®, Exchange® and Cloud platforms, today announced the general release of Metalogix Replicator for SharePoint  5.0. The new version meets the operational needs of multi-server SharePoint infrastructures that need the synchronization of content or immediate failover availability at wire speed for disaster recovery.

In March, Metalogix acquired Syntergy’s SharePoint business, including the market-leading Replicator for SharePoint, which is a web-based solution used to synchronize and manage business intelligence in real-time across multiple SharePoint environments.Replicator for SharePoint provides for two-way data synchronization by replicating content  and settings back and forth between server farms, even if they are not identical.
Replicator for SharePoint 5.0 features improved, patent-pending compression that reduces network overhead costs more than any other replication solution on the market. By utilizing Replicator for SharePoint 5.0, organizations with multiple SharePoint servers can have uninterrupted access to content that enhances employee productivity and efficiency and improves company performance globally.
The release of Replicator for SharePoint 5.0 includes a number of new features including adaptive replication, which provides changing environments, especially military installations, with the fastest access to their SharePoint. The solution automatically adapts to changing network conditions, and allows prioritization of specific content, to identify and use the most efficient route based on user-specific criteria. Adaptive replication also minimizes network traffic through its patent-pending micro-messaging system.
“The patent-pending features in Replicator for SharePoint 5.0 differentiates our solution from other SharePoint products and further demonstrates our team’s innovative leadership to create and develop breakthrough SharePoint solutions for organizations to move and manage content,” said Steven Murphy, CEO, Metalogix. “The 5.0 version of Metalogix Replicator for SharePoint allows organizations to address the rapidly growing needs of their multi-server SharePoint infrastructure while dramatically reducing network and administrative overhead as part of our strategy to continue to enhance the use and performance of our customers’ SharePoint platform investment.”
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About Metalogix
Metalogix is the trusted provider of innovative content lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft SharePoint , Exchange and Cloud  platforms. We deliver high-performance solutions to scale and cost-effectively manage, move, store, archive and protect enterprise content. Metalogix provides global support to thousands of customers and strategic partners and is a Microsoft Gold Partner, a managed partner in Microsoft’s High Potential ISV Group and GSA provider. Metalogix is a privately held company backed by Insight Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners. For more information, please visit: http://www.metalogix.com 
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Soarsoft delivers updated Exchange monitoring and reporting features with ENow’s Management System 4.7


Soarsoft Africa, a specialist in archive, migration, collaboration and messaging services, has recently announced the availability of ENow’s Management System 4.7 product suite for Exchange, Active Directory, and SharePoint management. ENow is a Microsoft Independent Software Vendor specialising in the development of software to simplify Microsoft system management.
ENow’s Mailscape Exchange Server product is used in over 35 countries by enterprise companies, including Facebook, NYSE, DirecTV, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and CB Richard Ellis. The product features a dashboard with red, yellow, and green lights indicating the health of each monitored server. The Mailscape solution enables IT support staff to proactively monitor servers in real time. It also provides mobile device reporting for iPads, iPhones, Androids, Blackberries, and other mobile devices.
The ENow Management system is comprised of Exchange, Active Directory and SharePoint modules. The Exchange module, Mailscape, is an innovative tool that combines all the key elements for Exchange reporting and monitoring in a single solution. ENow’s Compass product is a Microsoft Active Directory management solution, and ForeSite is designed to help organisations proactively monitor their SharePoint infrastructure.
ENow Management System 4.7 includes new enhancements to help IT administrators. Some of the highlights in this release include enhanced Exchange DAG monitoring features that will make it easier for administrators to ensure their high availability Exchange 2010 servers are functional. Several new Active Directory reports were added that will give Active Directory administrators the ability to track down potential security issues and to better understand their topology. In addition, this new release includes a brand new SharePoint module that automatically tests critical SharePoint services, such as Site Availability, Timer Jobs, Search & Index service and content databases. All of SharePoint’s underlying core technologies including IIS, Active Directory and SQL are also monitored with ForeSite.
Says Chris Hathaway, Director at Soarsoft Africa, distributor of ENow solutions: “ENow’s Management Suite 4.7 is ideal for local companies to proactively monitor and react to the ‘health’ and status of their organisations Exchange, and Active Directory platforms in an easy and intuitive manner, improving uptime and providing the ability to resolve issues quickly. The extended functionality of being able to monitor and manage SharePoint services delivers additional value and further assists to resolve issues before they impact the organisation’s ability to access documentation and data, especially as SharePoint becomes more and more prevalent as a critical business system.”

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Metalogix updates Replicator for Sharepoint


Metalogix Software, the trusted provider of content lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft SharePoint, Exchange and Cloud platforms, has announced the general release of Metalogix Replicator for SharePoint 5.0. The new version meets the operational needs of multi-server SharePoint infrastructures that need the synchronisation of content or immediate failover availability at wire speed for disaster recovery. 
In March, Metalogix acquired Syntergy’s SharePoint business, including the market-leading Replicator for SharePoint, which is a Web-based solution used to synchronise and manage business intelligence in real-time across multiple SharePoint environments.
Replicator for SharePoint provides for two-way data synchronisation by replicating content and settings back and forth between server farms, even if they are not identical.
“The functionality to synchronise between two locations is a key benefit for local organisations that have remotes sites or branches, especially those with operations in remote regions that make use of Satellite and have limited bandwidth,” says Chris Hathaway, director at Soarsoft Africa, distributor of Metalogix in the African region.
“We have seen these requirements regularly in the mining, retail and financial services verticals. Other scenarios include customers using SharePoint for document management across multiple geographies and regions.
“Metalogix’s ongoing commitment to continuously improving its offering is clearly evident in this development and ensures SharePoint users’ ongoing needs and requirements are anticipated and met.”
Replicator for SharePoint 5.0 features improved, patent-pending compression that reduces network overhead costs more than any other replication solution on the market.
By utilising Replicator for SharePoint 5.0, organisations with multiple SharePoint servers can have uninterrupted access to content that enhances employee productivity and efficiency and improves company performance globally.
The release of Replicator for SharePoint 5.0 includes a number of new features including adaptive replication, which provides changing environments, such as military installations, with the fastest access to their SharePoint.
The solution automatically adapts to changing network conditions, and allows prioritisation of specific content, to identify and use the most efficient route based on user-specific criteria. Adaptive replication also minimises network traffic through its patent-pending micro-messaging system.
“The patent-pending features in Replicator for SharePoint 5.0 differentiates our solution from other SharePoint products and further demonstrates our team’s innovative leadership to create and develop breakthrough SharePoint solutions for organisations to move and manage content,” says Steven Murphy, CEO, Metalogix.
“The 5.0 version of Metalogix Replicator for SharePoint allows organisations to address the rapidly growing needs of their multi-server SharePoint infrastructure while dramatically reducing network and administrative overhead as part of our strategy to continue to enhance the use and performance of our customers’ SharePoint platform investment.”

Soarsoft delivers updated Exchange monitoring and reporting features with ENow’s Management System 4.7

Soarsoft Africa, a specialist in archive, migration, collaboration and messaging services, has recently announced the availability of ENow’s Management System 4.7 product suite for Exchange, Active Directory, and SharePoint management. ENow is a Microsoft Independent Software Vendor specialising in the development of software to simplify Microsoft system management.
ENow's Mailscape Exchange Server product is used in over 35 countries by enterprise companies, including Facebook, NYSE, DirecTV, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and CB Richard Ellis. The product features a dashboard with red, yellow, and green lights indicating the health of each monitored server. The Mailscape solution enables IT support staff to proactively monitor servers in real time. It also provides mobile device reporting for iPads, iPhones, Androids, Blackberries, and other mobile devices.
The ENow Management system is comprised of Exchange, Active Directory and SharePoint modules. The Exchange module, Mailscape, is an innovative tool that combines all the key elements for Exchange reporting and monitoring in a single solution. ENow’s Compass product is a Microsoft Active Directory management solution, and ForeSite is designed to help organisations proactively monitor their SharePoint infrastructure.
ENow Management System 4.7 includes new enhancements to help IT administrators. Some of the highlights in this release include enhanced Exchange DAG monitoring features that will make it easier for administrators to ensure their high availability Exchange 2010 servers are functional. Several new Active Directory reports were added that will give Active Directory administrators the ability to track down potential security issues and to better understand their topology. In addition, this new release includes a brand new SharePoint module that automatically tests critical SharePoint services, such as Site Availability, Timer Jobs, Search & Index service and content databases. All of SharePoint’s underlying core technologies including IIS, Active Directory and SQL are also monitored with ForeSite.
Says Chris Hathaway, Director at Soarsoft Africa, distributor of ENow solutions: “ENow’s Management Suite 4.7 is ideal for local companies to proactively monitor and react to the ‘health’ and status of their organisations Exchange, and Active Directory platforms in an easy and intuitive manner, improving uptime and providing the ability to resolve issues quickly. The extended functionality of being able to monitor and manage SharePoint services delivers additional value and further assists to resolve issues before they impact the organisation’s ability to access documentation and data, especially as SharePoint becomes more and more prevalent as a critical business system.”

Saturday, July 21, 2012

Soarsoft nominated Binary Tree 2012 Partner of the Year winner

Soarsoft Africa was nominated as 2012 Partner of the Year: Regional Systems Integrator. 

Binary Tree, a provider of software solutions for migrating email to Microsoft Exchange and Office 365, has announced the winners of its 2012 Partner of the Year Awards.  Soarsoft Africa was nominated as 2012 Partner of the Year: Regional Systems Integrator.  This is the third year for the annual awards, which honour global and regional systems integrators for the exceptional impact they have made in the market place over the last year utilising Binary Tree solutions.  The winners were recognised at a Binary Tree reception during the 2012 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC 2012) in Toronto.

"Our Partner of the Year Awards recognise those partners who have provided extraordinary value to our joint customers," states Carl Baumann, Vice President of Sales and Marketing of Binary Tree.  "We congratulate them for helping customers to make smooth transitions to Microsoft Exchange and Office 365 and we look forward to their ongoing success."

Below is the list of this year's award winners.

2012 Award Winners in North America

·         Partner of the Year – Global Systems Integrator: EMC

·         Partner of the Year – Regional Systems Integrator: Cloud Strategies

·         Rising Star: Quality Technology Solutions



2012 Award Winners in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA)

·         Partner of the Year – Global Systems Integrator: Sogeti

·         Partner of the Year – Regional Systems Integrator: Soarsoft

·         Rising Star: Ai3

·         Rising Star: Dixtree

·         Rising Star: Skill



Says Warren Marks, Regional Manager at Soarsoft Africa: “Binary Tree has rapidly  become core to our business and complements and enhances our Cloud and migration Strategy.   We are extremely proud of our migration team which has now been recognised internationally with this accolade and is testimony to our skills and expertise in the niche area of Enterprise Messaging and SharePoint migrations to on-premise and cloud-based versions of Microsoft’s messaging and collaboration platforms. This will in turn provide our resellers and partners with confidence in our capabilities to assist them with their client’s migrations.”



About Soarsoft Africa

Soarsoft Africa has specialised in Archive, Migration and Messaging services for over a decade, leveraging the experience gained from some of the largest and most complex implementations around the world to deliver cost effective and successful projects and solutions. Soarsoft Africa remains product independent, but supports and implements what it considers to be trusted and proven solutions to meet specific customer requirements.

Soarsoft Africa continues to evaluate its offerings to ensure they maintain market and technological leadership positions, so that clients are offered the very best advice when assessing products and solutions that will match their requirements.

Soarsoft Africa has offices in Johannesburg and Cape Town South Africa.



About Binary Tree

Binary Tree is a leading provider of software for migrating enterprise messaging users and applications to on-premises and cloud-based versions of the Microsoft platform. Since 1993, Binary Tree and its business partners have helped over 6,000 customers around the world to migrate more than 25 million email users. Binary Tree's suite of software provides solutions for migrating from Exchange 2003/2007 and Lotus Notes to on-premises and online versions of Exchange and SharePoint. Binary Tree is represented by business partners worldwide who provide specialized services and a proven methodology for guiding customers through complex transitions. Binary Tree is a Microsoft Gold ISV Partner, an IBM Premier Business Partner, and is Microsoft's preferred vendor for migrating to Microsoft Office 365. Binary Tree is headquartered in the New York metropolitan area with international offices in London, Paris, Stockholm, Singapore, and Sydney. For more information, please visit us online at www.binarytree.com.



Editorial contacts:

Soarsoft Africa

George Amoils

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Tel: 011-7812323

Email: georgea@soarsoft.co.za



Chris Hathaway

Director

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Email: chrish@soarsoft.co.za



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