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Upgrade Your Email with Microsoft Exchange Server

The skyrocketing volumes, cost, and complexity of email pose real threats to your profitability and growth. We offer an easy-to-implement, cost-effective server and storage configuration for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007—pretested and balanced to meet the needs of your growing business.

About This Solution

Solution Sizing Guide

Sun Innovations at Work

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Key Benefits

Reduce cost. Implement Exchange 2007 on Sun and save up to 70% over the next three years on your Total Cost of Email Ownership. Leveraging the most eco-friendly option available, you will save up to 85% in space, power and cooling, positively affecting your bottom line.
Innovation. Take advantage of exclusive technologies from partners like CommVault to enable simplified upgrades from earlier Exchange versions.
Upgrade. Sun brings enterprise-class email capabilities so your business can run on the same systems as some of the largest IT companies in the world.

About This Solution

With email storage and bandwidth requirements spiraling upward, simply expanding your legacy Exchange Server is not a reasonable option. Sun has designed balanced building blocks of the industry's most powerful 64-bit servers supporting Intel and AMD quad-core processors and storage, to fully leverage the scalability of Exchange Server's 64-bit architecture. This solution also offers right-sized storage and optional release-independent software from CommVault that enables you to maintain compliance while upgrading.

Business Issues

High cost: The increasing flow of email (more users, more messages, new message formats) is outpacing budgets.
Microsoft Exchange 2007 offers new functionality, but the upgrade requires new hardware and migration of old email data.
Efficiency and compliance are increasingly difficult to achieve.

Business Results

Up to 70% lower TCO vs. legacy Exchange or competitive email software solutions.

Easier upgrades, with legacy equipment freed up for other uses.

Migrate existing data into Exchange 2007 with compliance intact.

Solution Sizing Guide

Sun offers this email solution in a full range of performance levels, form factors, and pricing to match your needs.

Entry Level Choices
Application	Form Factor	Sizing Needs	Products

Microsoft Exchange Server	Rack	Up to 1,000 concurrent users	Sun Fire X4140 (AMD) From $2,545 Sun Fire X4150 (Intel) From $2,445 Price & Buy »
Microsoft Exchange Server	Rack	Up to 2,000 concurrent users	Sun Fire X4200 M2 From $2,400 Price & Buy »
External Storage Options	Direct Attach	Up to 2,000 concurrent users	Sun StorageTek 2530 Array From $6,430 Price & Buy »

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Sun Innovations at Work

Combine Exchange 2007's 64-bit architecture and clustering capabilities with Sun's leading-edge x64 servers and 4 GB storage for high performance at a much lower price point than ever before.
Microsoft Exchange 2007 is the first Exchange version built on an enterprise-class database. Sun has been a leader in database implementations for decades; in fact, 40% of the world's largest databases run on Sun.
An Exchange profile in Sun's Common Array Manager enables you to rapidly set up and configure Sun storage arrays in a manner optimized for Exchange, using a free, Sun-developed management utility included with each array.

When deploying multiple arrays in a Continuous Cluster Replication configuration, you can finalize tuning on a single array and then rapidly deploy this configuration across the entire storage infrastructure—reducing risk and time to deployment.
Sun Fire x64 server designs allow for easy upgrade from dual-core to quad-core, allowing you to deploy the latest technology with less cost, less disruption, and getting faster results

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Try and Buy Program: Try a Sun StorageTek 2530 Array risk-free for 60 days and get 25% off when you purchase.
Save up to 15% when you purchase either a Sun Fire X4100 M2 server or a Sun Fire X4200 M2 server bundled with a Sun StorageTek 2530 SAS array.

Reference Materials

Here's the drill-down on Sun's email solution:

Data Sheets

Sun Solution for Exchange Server

Sun's Exchange Server Web Site

Sun Fire X4140 Server (AMD)

Sun Fire X4150 (Intel)

Sun Fire X4200 Server

Sun StorageTek 2500 Series of Arrays

Featured Product Gallery

Here are just a few systems that address this solution.

Sun featured products: Sun Fire X4150 server, Sun Fire X4200 M2 Server, and Sun StorageTek 2530 array

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Is Sun an authorized Microsoft Partner?

Yes, Sun is an authorized Microsoft Gold Partner. Gold Certified Partners demonstrate the highest degree of competence in working with Microsoft technologies.

Can I buy Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 from Sun?

No, the software itself must be purchased directly from Microsoft or a volume reseller.

Should I be concerned with interoperability?

Sun strives to achieve interoperability for all our products with Microsoft products. Our full storage line is Microsoft WHQL certified and our server line is Microsoft certified as well. See our full list of interoperable products.