[sdw2003] L.A. votes to "Go Google"; pressure shifts to Google and the cloud

[Thaddeus Braun]

I'm an Exchange guy from way back in the 4.0 days. I've had 2 bad
experiences with it in ~13+ years, and one of those I caused by being an
idiot. The other was a hardware failure. I like Exchange, and I am
really excited by the 2010 version that's coming out. I like my Exchange
mess, it's productive for my employers...

Did you know that they are actually saying it is better to run the new
Exchange 2010 version on local drives (because it has it's own built-in
2-server HA now) vs. SAN drives? I found that odd. I asked the guy "is
it better for us to virtualize Exchange and use the virtualization's HA
or to use the new 2server HA that's built in?" He said the new HA is the
preferred way to go, but if you can't use that, then use the
virtualization/SAN method to at least get some HA going. 

I don't think "clouding" the email will ever happen where I'm at now.
People send around internal documents that are way too sensitive to
trust outside our confines. But then again, we don't search through
people's email contents as they go outside the company, so we have no
way of knowing if people are already siphoning off data that way
anyways. That goes for USB drives/devices, too. We don't check those or
disable those. I'd like to, there are some very nifty products out there
that allow company policy to be applied to USB capability per AD group.
But we don't do it yet...

Seems like there's not that many big public/private companies in town
doing the email "cloud". I bet if LA's process goes well, we'll see a
ton move to the cloud, though...thanks for the feedback everyone!!

-----Original Message-----
From: sdw2003-bounces at mattware.com [mailto:sdw2003-bounces at mattware.com]
On Behalf Of Thaddeus Braun
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 3:09 PM
To: San Diego Windows 2003 User Group
Subject: [sdw2003] L.A. votes to "Go Google";pressure shifts to Google
and the cloud

Wow, I can't wait to see how this turns out. I'm interested in how this
will go. It affects Microsoft/Windows in an offhand way in that it could
help unseat Exchange as the defacto email system in many companies. I
believe Exchange brings Msoft many, many Millions of dollars every year.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=26641&tag=nl.e539

Any thoughts on this? Anyone already "clouding" their email offsite for
a whole company of 50+ people?

Thaddeus Braun 
IT Manager
Taylor Guitars
p: 619.258.1207
e: thaddeus.braun at taylorguitars.com
w: www.taylorguitars.com
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