Hybrid Messaging Mirapoint’s Hybrid Messaging Architecture Enables Corporations to Provide Workers with a Highly Capable Email Platform, While Lowering TCO and Increasing Productivity Enterprises today require a secure, cost-effective strategy to manage increasingly large and diverse user populations. The 'one-size-fits-all' architecture of leading corporate email platforms is not adequate for many enterprise environments because licensing and support fees are so costly for messaging and collaboration features that many employees do not need or will ever use. Instead enterprises need a strategy that can reduce their IT budgets and allow them to provide feature-rich messaging and collaboration functionality to knowledge workers, while delivering cost-effective messaging capabilities to the many employees with only basic messaging needs. Hybrid Messaging Networks Save Employers Up to 63% and Millions in Costs
Pioneered by Mirapoint, Hybrid Messaging enables enterprises to provide knowledge workers with a highly collaborative corporate email platform, while supporting most other users on a scalable, cost-effective messaging appliance. With Hybrid Messaging, enterprises can maintain existing Microsoft Exchange or IBM Lotus Domino deployments for employees who require these traditional, highly-collaborative thick client messaging solutions, and implement a thin-client solution such as Mirapoint Message Server where basic messaging functions such as email, calendar and contacts are more than sufficient for their other workers. Because highly collaborative employees command a bigger slice of the IT budget than less collaborative, often remote users, companies which segment their user base accordingly can reduce monthly licensing fees and support time by up to 63%, according to the Radicati Group report "Managing Spiraling IT Costs With a Hybrid Messaging Architecture." TCO Example:
Exchange 2003 and Hybrid Messaging with Mirapoint Message Server
How much can companies save by segmenting their messaging user base? If 40% are highly collaborative users on Microsoft Exchange 2003 and 60% are standard users, you can reduce the average monthly cost of each Exchange mailbox by converting the majority of your users to Hybrid Messaging with Mirapoint Message Server. A Microsoft Exchange account for 10,000 users costs about $26 per mailbox, or $260,000 a month. And yet only 40% of those employees actually need Exchange–the remaining 60% are standard email users. By adding Hybrid Messaging with Mirapoint Message Server to their network, companies stand to reduce their average cost per Exchange user to as little as $14.75. This amounts to savings of $67,500 a month!* Before Without Hybrid Messaging:
100% Exchange: 10,000 users x $26 /mo = $260,000 /mo. After With Hybrid Messaging :
40% Exchange: 4,000 users x $26 /mo = $104,000 /mo.
60% Hybrid Messaging with Mirapoint Message Server: 6,000 users x $14.75 = $88,500 /mo.
Total Cost: $104,000 + $88,500 = $192,500 /mo.
Total Savings with Hybrid Messaging Using Mirapoint Message Server: $260,000 - $192,500 = $67,500 a month! *Numbers from "Managing Spiraling IT Costs With a Hybrid Messaging Architecture," Radicati Group, 2007 | | Mirapoint’s Message Server benefits include: - Appliance-based messaging server to lower costs and provide high reliability and availability
- Standards-based mail server supports the mail client of your choice, including Outlook
- Feature rich web-based client and support for mobile clients
- Industry’s lowest TCO and server consolidation advantages
Features and Benefits Industry’s Lowest TCO
Mirapoint Message Server offers 5x lower TCO than any application based messaging products. This translates to huge cost savings in administration, management, and addition of new users. Feature Rich Messaging Services
The Mirapoint Message Server offers rich mail, calendaring, group scheduling and address book. Mirapoint's web-based Corporate Edition client delivers enterprise class messaging without the need to download a client on the user's PC. The Mirapoint Message Server also offers mail support for other mobile client devices. Hardened Operating System
The Mirapoint Message Server employs a hardened Mirapoint Messaging Operating System™ (MOS) that is optimized for performance and reliability–with no known exploits. Built On Industry Standards
The Message Server supports Internet standard protocols, for easy integration with any client device. 99.999% Proven Reliability
The Message Server has field proven 99.999% reliability equating to less than six minutes of unscheduled downtime per year. Support for External Storage and Archiving
Mirapoint supports external NAS and SAN. Mirapoint partners with industry leading archiving solutions to meet stringent regulatory compliance requirements for stored messages. Security By Design
Message Server is built on a locked-down hardened operating system with no known exploits. SSL and TLS protocols are supported for additional mail server protection and the administration interface is secured over an SSH connection. | 
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