Keep Exchange chugging: E-mail is a critical communication tool of choice at just about any organization. So when the e-mail server goes down, you're in for some costly downtime. Exchange shops out there might be well-served by one of various e-mail failover solutions, recently tested by Test Center Contributing Editor Logan G. Harbaugh. Neverfail for Exchange and SteelEye LifeKeeper bring true fail-over to an entire Exchange server. Cemaphore Systems MailShadow and Quest Availability Manager protect individual mailboxes on one or more Exchange servers. And Lucid8 DigiVault provides backup of data stores that can be restored to a secondary Exchange.
eCart worth checking out: Microsoft Commerce Server isn't the only player in town when it comes to developing an e-commerce Web site. If you're using Adobe Dreamweaver, you should check out the new release of WebAssist's eCart extension. Contributing Editor Mike Heck reports that "this potent combination provides coders with point-and-click, fully customizable shopping carts." He notes that "one significant new feature lets you select PayPal Website Payments Pro for checkout. Many merchants will find this important because there's one transaction rate for all payments and low monthly fees."
Open source storage seeds? Virtualization is catching on in the enterprise, but Neil McCallister notes in his Open Enterprise column that although server virtualization has some open-source-product representation, proprietary product rule exclusively in the realm of storage virtualization. However, change may be on the horizon, he suggests, as standards such as iSCSI mature.
Posted by Ted Samson on October 2, 2006 06:00 AM
