Microsoft® Exchange® Server is the undisputed industry leader in corporate messaging. With the release of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, not only does Exchange continue to provide rich, effi cient access to e-mail, calendars, attachments, contacts, and more, but Exchange Server 2007 adds some exciting infrastructure and performance improvements as well. F5’s comprehensive Application Ready infrastructure for Exchange Server 2007 allows organizations to easily provide additional performance, security and availability, to ensure maximum ROI with the minimum amount of work.
APPLICATION READY NETWORK GUIDE
MICROSOFT
EXCHANGE SERVER 2007Comprehensive Microsoft-Ready infrastructure that enhances theperformance, security, and availability of Exchange Server 2007 deploymentsSUMMARY® ®Microsoft Exchange Server is the undisputed industry leader in corporate
messaging. With the release of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, not only
does Exchange continue to provide rich, ef? cient access to e-mail, calendars,
attachments, contacts, and more, but Exchange Server 2007 adds some exciting
infrastructure and performance improvements as well. F5's comprehensive
Application Ready infrastructure for Exchange Server 2007 allows organizations
to easily provide additional performance, security and availability, to ensure
maximum ROI with the minimum amount of work.
Organizations are increasingly taking a holistic approach to IT infrastructure, using
valuable resources such as the new Microsoft Infrastructure Optimization (IO) 1model to aid in creating a strategic plan for developing their IT infrastructures
and realizing the maximum value from their technology investments. F5 has all
the tools to help organizations optimize their entire network and achieve a truly
dynamic infrastructure for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and other applications.
This is F5's application-ready network.
1See Microsoft Infrastructure Optimization model
2F5 APPLICATION READY NETWORK GUIDE: MICROSOFT EXCHANGE SERVER 2007
Bene? ts and F5 value
allowing them to concentrate on formatting User Experience and and delivering the dynamic parts of the Application Performance application. For example, in the standard With F5, users with Organizations depend on email as a vital implementation of Outlook Web Access, clients email attachments, communication medium. It is estimated that must download 160 objects from the Client 70% of business is conducted over email. Users Access server when they ? rst log on. With F5 such as Of? ce 2003 have come to expect that email communication deployed, only six of those ? rst requests are Word documents or is nearly instantaneous, and rely on its delivered by the Client Access servers, allowing availability. Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 is a those servers to spend more processing power Excel ? les, experience comprehensive messaging system that enables on the delivery of actual mail. a 90% reduction in effective communication with a host of new F5's TMOST helps optimize many of the and exciting features. When deploying such as functions that are outside the control of download time.powerful and integral application, organizations Microsoft Exchange Server. At its core, TMOS is often neglect the role that the surrounding a full proxy: it can optimize any end point that network plays in delivering such a complex connects through the system. With TMOS, F5 private (symmetric) and public (asymmetric application to what is often a global user base. ef? ciently isolates clients from the server-side users) under one management network. F5 helps to smooth potential networking and ? ows and independently maintains optimal Multiple F5 products contain custom built infrastructure issues, to make sure that end- performance for each connecting device, con? guration sets speci? c to Microsoft users receive the performance and reliability translating communications between systems. Exchange Server or Outlook Web Access.they expect from Microsoft Exchange. This allows F5 to improve application response F5 has built intelligence into its products to Because email is so vital to a successful times and utilization for Microsoft Exchange recognize and handle email attachments in business, a market has been emerged for and other applications on the network, by Outlook Web Access in the most ef? cient those who want to exploit it. Approximately reducing unnecessary protocol communication manner. This can provide signi? cant 80% of internet traf? c comes from abusive across the network. improvements for home and mobile users. email. Exchange Server 2007, with its built-in This is particularly useful for Outlook Web With F5, users accessing email attachments, defenses against SPAM and phishing e-mail, Access, where one user might connect using such as Of? ce 2003 Word documents or goes a long way toward reducing this type of broadband,... [download for more]
