White Paper Abstract:
In today’s business climate, the only constant is change. And, the evolution of email is no exception. Once simply a vehicle to communicate messages, email is now the cornerstone of your company’s mission-critical communication needs. And, as reliance on email increases, so do the needs of your employees. Workers have grown to expect instantaneous access to information and tools that allow for collaboration with fellow employees. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that email and other tools that afford immediate access to information foster a heightened state of workforce productivity, and can be directly tied to increased competitive advantage.
For IT professionals always striving to do more with less, delivering a system that balances employee needs with enterprise requirements, like security, compliance, and cost effectiveness, is no small feat. Especially when the current architecture that sustains your environment is less than optimal—operating in a state of “server sprawl”—or, the rapid increase of servers in the IT infrastructure. With limited disaster recovery functionality, insufficient capacity to handle evolving regulatory and legal requirements, and individual servers each representing a potential fault point and security exposure—these distributed server environments are difficult to manage and control, underutilized, costly to maintain, and incapable of supporting software upgrades critical to a solid infrastructure of unified communications.