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Hot Technologies for 2006

Server Virtualization

(NETWORKWORLD.COM) IT executives who have delayed virtualizing their x86-based servers for fear the technology remains unproved should put that project at the top of their to-do lists for 2006, as the market for virtualizing the low-volume systems heats up. It's a combination of factors - the increasing power and stability of the x86 platform, the maturing of virtualization software and a growing choice of software vendors - that is driving adoption at a surprisingly fast clip, analysts say.

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Business Process Breakthroughs

Email Archiving – Their Take

(eWEEK.COM) Symantec Corp.'s Enterprise Vault is growing up to become more than just an Exchange e-mail archive solution. E-mail archive applications allow IT managers to centralize corporate messaging data, not only for compliance with government and other mandates but also to keep the data within reach of knowledge workers. One of the leaders in the market, Enterprise Vault now allows IT managers to more effectively locate stray data and gives mobile users continuous access to corporate archives.

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Email Archiving – Our Take

(ENSYNCH.COM) IT organizations have 3 new issues that have dramatically increased the size and complexity of their Exchange environments. These three issues are as follows - regulatory compliance such as the Sarbanes-Oxley act, an increased use of Exchange as a file storage medium by normal users, and unmanaged .pst files.  All of these issues can add Gigabytes, if not Terabytes of data to an existing Exchange system, something that Exchange was never intended to be used for.

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