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MessageOne adds e-mail management options

By John Fontana , Network World , 04/17/2006
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E-mail management service provider MessageOne this week is expected to add a range of hosted services that let customers outsource archiving, recovery and encryption while integrating them with their on-premise deployments of Microsoft Exchange.

The offerings extend MessageOne's Email Management Services (EMS) platform. The company also is adding an option for the Research in Motion BlackBerry to its Email Continuity service announced last year. The service ensures that e-mail flows regardless of any outages on the local e-mail environment. The original continuity service supports both Exchange and Lotus Notes/Domino, but this week's new services are targeted initially only at Exchange.

"Compared to the complexity of clustering and outside data stores, which we have for other systems, this is a very simple and inexpensive solution," says Treg Russell, CIO of Texas Medical Liability Trust in Austin. Russell is in the process of building an Exchange cluster but plans to keep his MessageOne service. "It is an additional layer of protection," he says. "If you can get one cheap and have that extra security, it is worth doing."

Russell has added the archiving and BlackBerry services to his MessageOne menu.

"The one downside with this [Continuity] service is you did not have historical e-mail," he says. "Most people work off the e-mail they had yesterday or the day before." The archiving service gives Russell that trail and lets him set a time range when e-mail is archived on a per-group or user basis.

"This is not a complete disaster-recovery solution, but it can handle 95% to 99% of your needs," he says.

MessageOne, which competes with Microsoft's Exchange Hosted Services, Postini and MessageLabs, kicks in if the local Exchange environment goes down. E-mail is funneled to the MessageOne service and replicated back to the Exchange environment when it is restored. To integrate with the service, customers need to deploy a MessageOne synchronization engine behind their firewall and install agents on Exchange servers.

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