Server Tools has announced that HighGround System`s Storage Resource Manager (SRM) product family is being enhanced to monitor MicrosoftExchange Server storage network-wide.
SRM for Exchange, which will be available in Q4 this year, extends the Web-based capabilities of SRM by providing consolidated reports, alerts, and policies that enable IT organisations to centrally manage Exchange storage capacity, consumption, availability and performance.
The storage resources - organisations, sites, server groups, mailboxes, folders, messages - that support Exchange Server`s e-mail and collaboration functions must be constantly monitored to maintain end-user service levels, avoid downtime, and prevent productivity and revenue losses. SRM for Exchange will automatically monitor hundreds of storage performance statistics from all Exchange Server storage resources on a network. The information will be correlated in a Microsoft SQL Server database and from there provide a range of Web-based reports, alerts, planning trends, and policies.
"The SRM for Exchange option comes at a time when IT organisations are realising how critical storage is to maintaining Exchange Server availability, and are looking for a solution that can increase the return on their network storage investments," says Dave Terespolsky, MD of local SRM distributor, Server tools."
"With SRM for Exchange, HighGround becomes the first vendor to address management of storage resources in messaging environments," says Michael Peterson, president of Strategic Research.
The product provides a number of specific features designed to enhance the availability, scalability, and manageability of Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5:
Web-based maps of organisations, sites, servers, mailboxes, and public folders to ensure optimum return on Exchange Server storage investments
Largest mailbox reports to identify unnecessary Exchange Server consumption
Consumption management policies with enhanced mailbox quotas to reduce storage expenditure and enable Exchange Server "chargeback"
Storage Advisory alerts on storage bottlenecks, spike conditions, and backup status to ensure Exchange Server availability
Message aging policies and unaccessed mailbox reports to recycle Exchange Server capacity and conserve IT budgets
Historical message store consumption trends to predict capacity needs, prevent capacity shortages, and eliminate capacity overbuying
Storage throughput reports to maximise Exchange Server performance
SNMP console and Windows NT Security Group integration to leverage existing IT investments
SRM for Microsoft Exchange is based on Microsoft`s Distributed interNet Application (Windows DNA) architecture.
Server Tools is a subsidiary of Dimension Data Holdings
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