Soarsoft announces Mailscape named Best Exchange Administration Tool

Soarsoft Africa, a specialist in archive, migration, collaboration and messaging services, has announced that the leading Microsoft Exchange Server resource site, MSExchange.org, has selected ENow’s Mailscape as the winner in the Exchange Server Administration software category of the MSExchange.org Readers’ Choice Awards. The Mailscape solution provides IT support staff with the ability to proactively monitor servers in real time. “Soarsoft Africa proudly distributes ENow Software into Southern Africa and this award further reinforces our commitment to introducing and supporting proven, innovative and internationally recognised solutions into the local market.” says George Amoils, Director at Soarsoft Africa. ENow's Mailscape Exchange Server product features a dashboard with red, yellow, and green lights indicating the health of each monitored server. It also provides mobile device reporting for iPads, iPhones, Androids, Blackberries and other mobile devices. "Mailscape is a must have tool for any organisation and many of our customers purchased this for their migrations from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010. The monitoring and reporting capabilities available out of the box are extensive and simple to deploy and use,” says Deniel Lambrakis, CTO for Soarsoft Africa. MSExchange.org conducts regular polls to discover which product is preferred by Exchange administrators in a particular category of third party solutions for Microsoft Exchange Server. The awards draw a huge response per category and are based entirely on the visitors’ votes. “Our Readers' Choice Awards give visitors to our site the opportunity to vote for the products they view as the very best in their respective category,” says Sean Buttigieg, MSExchange.org manager. “MSExchange.org users are specialists in their field who encounter various solutions for Exchange Server at the workplace. Their vote serves as a solid peer-to-peer recommendation of the winning product.” About Mailscape The award-winning Mailscape solution is a complete systems management tool that combines key elements for Exchange monitoring, reporting and administration into a single solution. Mailscape's innovative reporting module and robust monitoring features, coupled with a personalised dashboard, provide Help Desk and other key personnel with the ability to quickly diagnose a problem and deliver critical information needed to manage Exchange proactively and avoid costly downtime. About ENow ENow is a Microsoft Silver Independent Software Vendor focused on helping companies implement the latest Microsoft technologies and developing software tools to simplify the job of an IT administrator. The ENow Management System (EMS) is an award winning platform that provides a dashboard view of Exchange, BlackBerry, SharePoint and Active Directory servers. For more information, visit http://www.enowsoftware.com. All product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. About MSExchange.org MSExchange.org (http://www.msexchange.org) is a Microsoft Exchange Server resource site. It is the leading Exchange site, attracting over 800,000 Exchange administrators and specialists a month. The site provides the latest Microsoft Exchange Server news, articles and tutorials by leading Exchange experts, message boards, software listings, and product reviews and Whitepapers. 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. Editorial contacts: George Amoils Director Tel: 011-781 2323 Email: georgea@soarsoft.co.za Evolution PR Lesley Rencontre Tel: 011-462 0679 Email: Lesley@evolutionpr.co.za

Soarsoft Africa announces Metalogix StoragePoint development - shatters the 2Gigabyte barrier for managing extremely large files directly within SharePoint

Soarsoft Africa, a specialist in archiving, migration, collaboration and messaging services,, has announced the release of Metalogix’ latest version of Metalogix StoragePoint that gives organisations the ability to store, access and backup files over 2 Gigabytes (GB) through SharePoint. This breakthrough capability is fully integrated directly within SharePoint 2010 and 2013 and works seamlessly with SharePoint features such as metadata management and workflows.

“File volumes and sizes are increasing as the adoption of SharePoint becomes more widely spread within organisations. A key element to keeping costs in check while ensuring performance and subsequent user adoption of the expanding platform is how these large objects are offloaded and managed within SharePoint. This is especially true when we consider the proliferation of digital content such as images, videos and graphic rich presentations that are so much a part of marketing and other productive departments within the organisation. The Metalogix StoragePoint management of large objects and volumes creates almost limitless scalability and efficiency in one easy step,” says Chris Hathaway, Director at Soarsoft Africa and distributor of Metalogix.

The recent SharePoint content survey revealed that enterprise content is growing 75 percent annually. For many organisations, this growth is often driven by the requirement to collaborate on large files. SharePoint struggles with large objects such as 3D and CAD drawing, software builds and high definition media files. For organisations that work with these large files, specifically construction, engineering and software development companies, it was previously impractical or even impossible to store these files in SharePoint due to the file size limitations and performance issues. These limitations forced business users to store and access files outside SharePoint in content silos that resulted in process errors, productivity loss, security risks and complicated backup procedures. With the breakthrough feature now available in StoragePoint, organisations can rely solely on SharePoint for managing files of any size, thus improving collaboration, productivity and content governance.

Full support for extremely large files is the latest game-changing feature available in StoragePoint for managing Big Content. Other breakthrough features include the ability to continuously and automatically back up files over 2GB and unstructured SharePoint content, known as Binary Large Objects (BLOBs), to remove the need for costly, time-consuming backups. StoragePoint, which fully supports SharePoint 2007, 2010 and 2013, enables organisations to externalise SharePoint content to shrink database sizes, slash storage costs and boost performance by moving BLOBs outside of SQL Servers on to affordable external storage tiers, including SAN, NAS or the Cloud. By externalising BLOBs, StoragePoint dramatically improves SharePoint performance by shrinking databases by up to 95%.

“We have seen the dramatic growth in content being managed through SharePoint, with most companies managing environments that exceed 1 terabyte, and this growth is driven by extremely large file sizes,” says Steven Murphy, CEO, Metalogix. “The ability of StoragePoint to allow management of files over 2GB within SharePoint is a game changer that will revolutionise the way organisations manage content growth and improve the use and performance of their SharePoint environment across the enterprise. The release of SharePoint 2013 will further stimulate content growth and StoragePoint ensures that organisations are prepared for this growth to increase knowledge sharing and collaboration.”

About Metalogix
Metalogix provides content infrastructure software to improve the use and performance of enterprise content. For over a decade, Metalogix has transformed the way commercial and government organisations manage terabytes of content to improve knowledge sharing and collaboration. Today, more than 7,500 customers rely on the company’s products to upgrade, migrate, organise, store, archive and replicate content on Microsoft SharePoint, Exchange and Cloud platforms. Metalogix has moved more than 50,000 terabytes of content – more than every other ISV in the marketplace combined.

Metalogix is recognised as the fastest growing software company in the Washington D.C.-area by the Washington Business Journal and was named to the 2012 Inc. 500 list of fastest growing companies. Metalogix 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. Follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

About Soarsoft Africa
Soarsoft Africa focuses on Archive, Migration, Messaging and Collaboration solutions, with a successful track record that spans 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 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.

Editorial contacts:
Chris Hathaway
Director
Tel: 011-7812323
Email: chrish@soarsoft.co.za

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Doing it SMARTly! Making sense of your Messaging Platform migration life cycle

Doing it SMARTly – making sense of your Messaging Platform migration lifecycle Opinion Piece by Chris Hathaway, Director at Soarsoft Africa April 2013 The mere thought of a messaging platform migration has sent many operational managers and IT administrators running for the hills. Messaging is the lifeblood of the organisation and in the past, it impacted every corner of the business and was a highly risky and challenging initiative to ensure everyday business operations were unaffected. However, this notion has changed somewhat. With the advent of cloud computing and the regular version refresh cycles for vendors like Microsoft that embrace new collaboration methods and cloud based options, it is gathering a new momentum due to a unique combination of business and technology drivers. In fact, organisations that run leading platforms like Microsoft's Flagship Exchange solution, should no longer see migrations as a once-off event, but rather as a continuous process that is aligned with commercial, organisational and technology business needs. Cloud and hybrid deployments are also driving the need for a shift in how migrations are performed, perceived and managed by organisations which are rethinking how email should be actualised in a public or private cloud. However, it is often only when the process is in motion that they realise that the most efficient or cost effective deployment model could be a "hybrid" cloud deployment. Hybrid deployments enable organisations to optimise where they host their user mailboxes. Often large numbers of users are external or remote "desk-less" resources and their mailboxes are more suitable for a cloud environment, whilst other users are best to be hosted on site. The key to a successful email migration is to manage it as a transformation cycle, applying best practice methodologies and proven technology, combined with a knowledgeable practised advisor. Today, businesses must adopt an approach to email migration that will provide a repeatable formula for success via a single investment rather than viewing the process as a once-off event. With Binary Tree’s experience spanning 20 years, they have developed a SMART Exchange Migration strategy, which combines technology and guidance with the right formula for successfully managing the Microsoft Exchange transformation life cycle. The SMART approach dictates the use of superior, proven technologies and partners to ensure that the migration is started with proper discussion and planning. This is followed by messaging, the most basic and critical component of an organisations' infrastructure and together with a trusted advisor, companies are able to select the most suited platform and benchmarks for what constitutes a successful migration. Therein lies the rub. There must be a thorough analysis of the messaging infrastructure to establish what is the most important to the business. This comprehensive collection will illustrate the complex and unique nature of the messaging environment, consisting of users, servers, policies, workflow and content. The most important phase of Binary Tree's SMART methodology is deciding on what to migrate where, when and how. This rationalisation comes from mapping the results of the comprehensive analysis of the business requirements and promotes the optimisation of the migration process. By employing the SMART methodology, businesses are automatically transforming the way they approach future migrations. As messaging platforms continue to evolve and the technologies supporting them continue to shift, it will become more advantageous for companies to adopt the ability to continuously transform their infrastructures. Maintaining a competitive edge is at the centre of what makes companies leaders, and innovation is traditionally what drives the evolution of messaging platforms to deliver the capabilities that keep users happy, productive and mobile. In closing, many view Exchange and other messaging platforms as a commodity that operate on their own with limited administration and do not need special attention, but this is not the case. The ultimate key to success of an on-going Messaging administration, transformation and evolution is a combination of complementary methodology and technology which enables an organisation to collect, analyse, rationalise and execute. This incorporates the collection of information that must be based on well-defined technical, organisational and financial rules to ensure that the execution is precise, and importantly a success. About Soarsoft Africa Soarsoft Africa focuses on Archive, Migration, Messaging and Collaboration solutions, with a successful track record that spans 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 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. Editorial contacts: Soarsoft Africa Chris Hathaway Director Tel: 011-7812323 Email: chrish@soarsoft.co.za Evolution PR Lesley Rencontre  Tel: 011-462 0679 Email: Lesley@evolutionpr.co.za

 

Acevedo and Soarsoft Africa announce strategic partnership

Acaveo and Soarsoft Africa Announce Strategic Partnership

Soarsoft Africja to resell Acaveo’s innovative data governance solution in South Africa

July 2013

Acaveo, an innovator of a new category of information governance solutions, and Soarsoft Africa, specialists in archiving, data migration and messaging, have announced a strategic partnership whereby Soarsoft will deliver Acaveo’s next-generation data governance solution to enterprise clients in the South African market.

“We are very excited about Acaveo’s solution because it fills critical gaps in an organisation’s ability to manage and protect their increasing volumes of data,” says Chris Hathaway, Managing Partner, Soarsoft Africa. “By understanding data at its source, Smart Information Server can make things like archiving, data migration and audits and eDiscovery more efficient and cost predictable.”

Soarsoft has offices in Cape Town and Johannesburg and brings together over a decade of experience in the supply, project management and support of enterprise information management solutions for leading organisations in Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the USA.

“We are very pleased to partner with the great team at Soarsoft,” says Geoff Bourgeois, CTO, Acaveo. “We recognise that organisations in South Africa are philosophically advanced in their thinking on data retention, security and information governance issues so we anticipate that Smart Information Server will be well received courtesy of the experienced team at Soarsoft.”

With new data privacy laws in South Africa, organisations will be thinking more about how they maintain oversight and control of the information they store that contains private or sensitive data. Smart Information Server specialises in empowering organisations with an actionable understanding to inventory, track, query and govern precise datasets from diverse volumes of data spread across on-premise and cloud-based email, file and collaboration solutions.

A free trial of Smart Information Server is available to qualifying organizations. Requests for a free trail can be completed on acaveo.com.

About Soarsoft Africa 

Soarsoft Africa focuses on Archive, Migration, Messaging and Collaboration solutions, with a successful track record that spans over a decade. Leveraging the experience gained from some of the largest and most complex information management implementations around the world, we are able to deliver cost effective and successful projects and solutions. Soarsoft only supports and implements what it considers to be trusted and proven solutions to meet our customers’ specific information management 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 and up-to-date advice when assessing their requirements. Soarsoft Africa operates throughout Africa and parts of the Middle East and has offices in both Johannesburg and Cape Town South Africa.

About Acaveo

Acaveo develops transformational information governance software that delivers constant insight and precision controls for large, diverse volumes of live, unstructured data dispersed across servers, data centers and the cloud. Acaveo’s simple yet powerful controls empower IT, legal and security teams to easily analyze their data, defensibly reduce their storage footprint, streamline their litigation response and govern their live data to improve security and compliance.

Acaveo and Smart Information Server are trademarks of Acaveo Inc.

Editorial Contacts:

Soarsoft Africa

Chris Hathaway

Tel: 021 200 2393

Email: chrish@soarsoft.co.za

Acaveo Inc.

Julia Koldachenko

Tel: +1 (613) 237-9633 x3

Email: julia.koldachenko@acaveo.com

Evolution PR

Lesley Rencontre 

Tel: 011 462 0679

Email: Lesley@evolutionpr.co.za