Can the Hybrid Cloud really work?

Hi guys,

On May 4th I will be presenting a live webinar on Hybrid Cloud solutions for Exchange and what it means for your business, your users and your datacentre.

More info on the official Cobweb Blog here: http://www.cobweb.com/learn-now/events/hybrid-cloud-webinar.aspx#oliver

Be sure to sign up as we take you on a journey through an Exchange Hybrid Cloud deployment and you get real world answers both from myself and the customer the solution was catered for.

See you there!

Take Care


Oliver Moazzezi MVP - Exchange Server

U-turn on Exchange 2010 SP1 /hosting mode guidance?

If you have been following Exchange 2010 options for hosters you will know that until recently you were pretty much pushed down the /hosting mode route. Well today I spotted this blog post by Ian Hameroff and Michael van Dijken, So, You Want to Host Exchange?, suggesting we don’t have to use /hosting if we want UM and some other functionality.

As with Exchange 2000, 2003 and 2007 we are able to make a standard deployment of Exchange 2010 SP1 work as a multi-tenant environment, Paul Roman covers it nicely here, The Hard Way - Hosting Environment Preparation.

My first Hosted Exchange solution was Exchange 2000 with a custom built automation engine, which was great, but I remember how much better the support was when HMC was introduced. With /hosting mode it became even simpler and although I desperately want UM in my solution today, I am not sure moving away from /hosting is the right direction.

What are your thoughts?

Daniel

Technorati Tags: Exchange,cloud,hosting

Cobweb make it onto The Register

Our VCE offering has made it onto the front page, and can be found here.


Oliver Moazzezi

MVP - Exchange Server

Hot on the heels of vBlock?

Cisco, VMWare and NetApp are due to annouce a collaboration of some sort come January 26th.

I would imagine this is an alternative to the vBlock cloud solution already offered by EMC, Cisco and VMWare, but sitting on NetApp storage.

More information here:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/14/netapp_cisco_vmware/

Oliver Moazzezi

MVP - Exchange Server

Panasonic moves to the Cloud

This is a pretty interesting read. Not necessarily because of the Product change (although that is talk for another day as i'm sure Panasonic must have included Microsoft or it's Partners in any tender) but because of the sheer size of the move.

Panasonic must see huge savings in offloading their messaging infrastructure to a Cloud Provider, and have great trust in the service it will receive.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13846_3-10434664-62.html


Oliver Moazzezi

MVP - Exchange Server

IBM launch Lotus Notes Hosted Messaging.

Read all about it here:



http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/notes-hosted-messaging/

This is an interesting twist to the market that already includes Microsoft and Google, and third party providers of those platforms.


Oliver Moazzezi

MVP - Exchange Server