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Cemaphore Syncs E-Mail Between Microsoft Exchange, Exchange Online
By: Clint Boulton
2008-11-17
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Cemaphore announces MailShadowX, an e-mail continuity application designed to help synchronize e-mail, calendars and contacts between Microsoft Exchange and the new Microsoft Exchange Online SAAS messaging and collaboration suites. MailShadowX also allows users to access their Google Apps data, including Gmail and Google Calendar, through their Outlook interface.Cemaphore Systems, which makes a product that lets corporate workers access
their Outlook e-mail, contacts and calendars through their Google Gmail application instead of Microsoft Exchange, is now
going to bat for Microsoft.
To accompany Microsoft's launch of Exchange Online Nov. 17, Cemaphore announced
MailShadowX (MailShadow for Exchange Online), which synchronizes e-mail,
calendars, contacts, tasks and notes between internal Microsoft Exchange
servers and the Exchange Online Service.
The e-mail continuity and recovery application, intended for small and midsize
businesses, is another bridge in the gap between SAAS (software as a service)
solutions and classic on-premises software. The synchronization software also
lets users access their Google Apps data, including Gmail contacts and Google
Calendar, through the Exchange Online app.
Cemaphore President and CEO Tyrone Pike said
he and his team built Exchange Online synchronization after Microsoft let him
know the company was very interested in what Cemaphore was doing. It doesn't
pay for a synchronization startup to take sides, so Cemaphore quickly found
itself building a version of the MailShadow product for Microsoft.
Microsoft was interested in having people move from Google to Microsoft. So the
product that was good for the goose is also good for the gander, in a sense. You
can flip the thing around and serve two warriors.
However, Pike said that in the middle of doing the work to let users access
Gmail data through Exchange, Microsoft told Cemaphore it needed better tools to
help migrate data from its classic on-premises Exchange to the Exchange Online
Service, launching to all businesses Nov. 17.
Accordingly, MailShadowX enables concurrent operations between on-site Exchange
and Exchange in the cloud. This includes continuous data protection and instant
data recovery should systems fail. The software will appeal to large service
providers conducting large migrations on behalf of Microsoft.
For example, BrightPlanIT, a system integrator and Microsoft Gold Certified
Partner, embraced the product as one that will help businesses reduce
infrastructure costs while delivering safe protection and recovery of e-mail
data.
It's not hard to understand why. Normally, companies must have separate co-location
facilities to mirror data they want saved. With e-mail continuity in the cloud,
these co-lo joints, which normally require a bank of servers and storage, can
become less expensive or even be rendered unnecessary.
MailShadowX is available now at a special rate of $29.95 per user per year
until Nov. 30, after which it will cost $49.95.
In other Cemaphore news, MailShadow for Google Apps, or MailShadowG, is now ready
for general availability. The software, which enables migration and replication
of e-mail, calendars and contacts through Outlook, includes support for both
Windows Vista and Windows XP.
Like MailShadowX, MailShadowG is available for $29.95 per user per year until
Nov. 30, when the company will begin selling it for $49.95.
Incidentally, Pike also said MailShadowG now enables Exchange to run on Google's Android mobile
operating system via the T-Mobile G1 smart phone.
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