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February 12, 2008

Strategic Outlook

  1. Avoid Copyright Litigation: Master Your Own Domain
  2. E-Mail Migration Headaches: Watch and Dodge
  3. Storage Management Expertise Critical to Server Virtualization
  4. VAR 2.0 Strikes a Balance Between Purchasing Accessibility and Control
  5. Who’s Watching the Watchlists?

Industry Insights

  1. ERP for Discrete Manufacturing: Vendors and Considerations
  2. The State of SOA in Healthcare
  3. Are Retail Consumers Ready for Self-Serve Video Kiosks?

Analyst's Angle

  1. 2008’s Security Resolutions

In-Depth Report

2008: Predicting A Very Challenging Year2008: Predicting A Very Challenging Year

As deteriorating 2008 economic indicators for North America begin to affect enterprises, IT leaders will face a two-edged challenge. On one hand, management will expect speedy functionality and quality enhancements to systems to improve the enterprise’s competitive position. On the other, senior management may squeeze existing budgets and successful investment proposals will have to meet much tougher criteria.

E-Mail Migration Headaches: Watch and Dodge

McLean Report: Research Note

Published: February 12, 2008

Info-Tech recently discussed a belabored e-mail migration project with a mid-sized enterprise. This enterprise experienced poor project management, unexpected data and logistics delays, and interoperability problems with existing e-mail dependent solutions. Take steps to avoid these pitfalls when migrating between on-premises e-mail servers from different vendors.

The Environment

The migrating enterprise manages nearly 750 mailboxes, scattered across more than 50 work-sites. Employees do not have a mailbox quota. Consequently, the average mailbox size is over 2GB. The user-base is demanding and technically sophisticated, with low tolerance for problems.

In this migration, the enterprise replaced an existing IBM Lotus Domino/Notes infrastructure with Microsoft Exchange 2007/Outlook. The Exchange cluster contains six servers, three on-site and three in a remote disaster recovery location. Both sets of servers contain one hub server and two mailbox servers.

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