Ready to Leverage the Power of Exchange
Dell and Microsoft® Exchange 2010 together offer customers increased user productivity, energy- and space-efficient infrastructure, and more high-availability (HA) and disaster-recovery (DR) features, offering better total cost of ownership (TCO) than the previous versions of Exchange running on legacy hardware.
There are thousands of ways to configure Exchange 2010. Dell simplifies deployment for organisations by providing basic architecture models that can result in greater productivity, infrastructure efficiency and lower TCO.
Business Needs
- Lower cost, more reliable messaging (email and voicemail) solution, especially if you’re running expensive and proprietary voicemail applications
- Mailboxes too small for your business needs
- Access to messaging resources by remote/mobile users
- Safeguards for sensitive communication, company and customer privacy and lower overall risk of information leaks
Dell Solution
Dell has developed a simplified approach to Exchange 2010 design by optimising architecture for small and medium businesses. This approach features:
- Enhanced universal inbox experience, providing your users access from a single location
- Easier collaboration through calendar sharing internally and externally
- New productivity features, helping users organise and prioritise communications more easily
- Support for 10GB mailboxes
- Connectivity during mailbox migrations and infrastructure updates
- Mobility, flexible access and integrated communications
- Native compliance features and safeguarding sensitive information
- Native and robust high-availability and disaster recovery features
- Inbox management
- Replacement of legacy and expensive voice systems
- Lower administration and helpdesk costs
Choose Dell because we understand your messaging infrastructure pain points, and we can help you navigate Exchange 2010 through a choice of architecture and extensive service offerings. Our diverse portfolio of servers, storage and partner solutions give us a balanced point of view. Dell knows customers have different pain points and problems they are trying to solve. That’s why we offer choices.
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Standard Exchange Server Solution | Performance Exchange Server Solution | High-Performance Exchange Server Solution |
PowerEdge T310 | PowerEdge R510 | PowerEdge R610 |
An affordable entry-level solution for organizations with large mailboxes to enable them to grow Ideal platform for setting up a reliable and affordable email server for a very small number of users with large mailbox capacity needs Dell ProSupport™ — 24x7x365 hardware and software phone support with next-working-day on-site repair by an engineer Recommended hard disk drive (HDD) configuration — RAID 1 2x500GB 7.2K SATA | A cost-effective solution for midsized organizations with large mailbox capacity needs 50–200 mailboxes typically require two-socket rack servers only, especially the storage-dense PowerEdge™ R510. With the R510, you can eliminate external storage requirements. HDD configuration — RAID 1 2x300GB 10K SAS: OS + logs; RAID 1 2x1TB NL-SAS: database — is recommended. Call us for a quote and detailed sizing matching your organization’s requirement.
| A scalable and secure solution for 200–500 mailboxes PowerVault™ MD series direct attached storage is recommended. At least three DAG copies are recommended for high availability at the server/application and data/storage layers. Having three copies allows for full double failures and the ability to avoid the costs and inefficiencies of RAID 10 and RAID 5. Call us for a quote and detailed sizing matching your organization’s requirement. |
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