Digital Equipment Corporation has announced it has placed more than 500 000 new Microsoft Exchange seats under contract during the last quarter, bringing its total to 1.5 million.
These moves, combined with new services and significant expansion in its Microsoft Exchange business, strengthened Digital`s position as the world`s leading provider of enterprise mail and messaging solutions.
"Worldwide, our Microsoft Exchange business has grown 50 percent in the past four months," said Rob Schroenn, product marketing manager at Digital SA.
"This enormous growth is a direct result of the significant investment we are continuing to make in resources for Microsoft Windows NT and Microsoft Exchange, reaffirming our strong alliance with Microsoft."
Digital`s AlphaServer systems and Prioris servers have been proven to deliver the industry`s highest throughput, scalability, and reliability for Microsoft Exchange- based e-mail and messaging solutions.
A recent cost of ownership study completed by Creative Networks, a Palo Alto-based mail and messaging consulting firm, shows that AlphaServer systems deliver a 50 percent cost-of-ownership advantage for Microsoft Exchange deployment versus competitive systems.
The cost of ownership includes 47 percent lower administrative and management costs, 28 percent lower total server costs and 56 percent lower downtime costs.
For smaller or more distributed environments, Digital Prioris servers and AlphaServer systems also provide more headroom in handling peak usage and the capacity to support such additional applications as workflow, document management and integrated telephony.
"Digital has 1600 Windows NT-certified engineers and 600 dedicated mail and messaging specialists delivering services on a worldwide basis," notes Schroenn.
"Digital is also bringing its internal experience in implementing Microsoft Exchange to its customers by sharing the knowledge it gained through deploying Microsoft Exchange to more than 57000 users in more than 30 countries worldwide, making Digital one of the world`s largest enterprise Microsoft Exchange customers."
Digital is capitalising on new, improved tools and methodologies that have been developed over the past year to deliver Microsoft Exchange to customers.
The company now offers the industry`s most comprehensive portfolio of planning, design, implementation, integration and migration services for Microsoft Exchange.
Digital is rolling out V2.0 of its services called "Rapidly Moving to Microsoft Exchange". These services incorporate new methodologies and recommendations that will help customers deploy Microsoft Exchange at an even more rapid pace, thus increasing return on investment.
"Digital is unique in providing a full complement of Microsoft Exchange services for our customers," said Schroenn.
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