Sonasoft Releases Unique Cross-Standby Capability for Microsoft Exchange Server

August 24, 2005; 02:55 PM

San Jose, California – Sonasoft Corp. announces the availability of its unique Cross-Standby solution for Microsoft Exchange server. This is a cost-effective solution that leverages existing Exchange servers and provides mutual disaster recovery functionality.

Sonasoft provides a high-availability solution, protecting data from hardware/software failures and human errors. SonaSafe application maintains the redundant, standby server by continually updating the data with that retrieved from the primary system. The standby system can take over instantly in the event of primary system failure. The standby system can be on-site, or located at a remote site for protection against natural or man-made disasters. 

In the case of a cross-standby scenario, SonaSafe enables two Exchange servers located at two different sites across the country or anywhere in the world to act as mutual standby for each other. Let us say that a company has offices in two locations, one in San Francisco and the other in New York. Let us say the Exchange server in San Francisco has 250 mailboxes and the Exchange server in New York has 400 mailboxes. Using SonaSafe, the server in New York will act as the standby server for the server in San Francisco and vice versa. Suppose if the server in San Francisco goes down, then the server in New York will act as the primary server for all the users at the New York office and also as the standby server for the users in San Francisco. Once the server is rebuilt at the San Francisco office, then all the users from San Francisco office are switched back to the Exchange server in San Francisco.

"The time and energy we saved by not having to search through tape libraries for a restore was simply fantastic. Using Sonasoft's unique Point-Click Recovery® solution, we could restore a single email in less than a minute. I'm really impressed with the simplicity and the reliability of Sonasoft's solution!" - Thanh Long Nguyen, Sr. Systems Analyst, Burnham Brown

Key Benefits to Customers:

§          Create cross-standby capability between Exchange servers across the country

§          Affordable, easy-to-use disaster recovery solution for Microsoft Exchange server

§          The standby exchange server can be anywhere; no distance limitation

§          Meet regulatory compliance requirements like Sarbanes Oxley, HIPAA etc.

§          The standby server is available for testing/searching/monitoring purposes

§          Facilitate migration of Exchange servers from one version to another

§          Ideally suited for SMB Exchange environments

§          Ability to load balance by distributing mailboxes across multiple Exchange Servers

About Sonasoft®
Sonasoft Corp. automates the disk-to-disk backup and recovery process for Microsoft Exchange, SQL and Windows Servers with its groundbreaking SonaSafe® Point-Click Recovery® solutions. Designed to simplify and eliminate human error in the backup and recovery process, SonaSafe solutions also centralize the management of multiple servers and provide a cost-effective turnkey disaster recovery strategy for companies of all sizes.
For more information, please visit www.sonasoft.com.