Azaleos Betas New Remote Monitoring Service for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

Azaleos has announced the beta of a new remote monitoring service for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, called OneStop ViewPoint।

The company said the service offloads 90 percent of the tasks associated with SharePoint monitoring to Azaleos। The OneStop service allows organizations to deploy SharePoint without increasing IT staff, or to re-assign SharePoint IT personnel to other strategic projects.

Azaleos touted its ability to remotely manage Exchange Servers and Blackberry Enterprise Servers deployed on a customer s premises। The Azaleos management services include, but are not limited to, archiving, e-mail security and business continuity. With the addition of OneStop ViewPoint, Azaleos is expanding its portfolio to cover the entire breadth of the Microsoft enterprise stack and extending the unique Azaleos services value proposition to SharePoint Server customers.

iStar Financial, a publicly traded finance company focused on the commercial real estate industry, relies on SharePoint to manage the collaboration process for financing projects that span multiple documents as well as internal and external contributors।

According to Chris Beach, Vice President of Information Technology for iStar Financial, SharePoint helps us organize and manage documents and communications for complex business transactions that can take months to complete। However, monitoring and maintaining SharePoint is equally complex and requires significant time, effort, and expertise. We wanted to focus our core IT resources in other areas, so we turned to Azaleos. Their ability to keep our confidential SharePoint data and records on-premise and on our network was a key selling point for us.

ViewPoint adds SharePoint Services to the modular lineup of Azaleos OneStop Managed Services। OneStop offerings are delivered in conjunction with OneServer appliances, which serve as on-premise service endpoints inside the customer s firewall. Azaleos offers a virtual OneStop server appliance as well as several physical appliance options for both Exchange and SharePoint.

With nearly 100 million users, SharePoint is rapidly emerging as the de facto collaboration platform and document storage location for mission-critical projects। To ensure that SharePoint is always available and running at peak performance companies are asking Azaleos for assistance, said Keith McCall, Chief Technology Officer of Azaleos. With ViewPoint we provide 24x7 remote monitoring, maintenance, and upkeep of SharePoint by a team of experts in our network operations center.

As SharePoint continues its rapid growth, services are becoming an increasingly important focal point for SharePoint and this is underscored by our recent launch of the Microsoft Office SharePoint Online offering, said Thomas Rizzo, Microsoft s Director of Product Management for SharePoint। Azaleos has now created an innovative new hybrid services approach for SharePoint which further underscores and augments Microsoft s services commitment to SharePoint. The Azaleos service breaks new ground in assisting IT by remotely managing and monitoring on-premise SharePoint performance and uptime.

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