Combating the Increasing Cost of Email

AXIGEN Mail Server™ has been designed to enable businesses to cut costs without cutting corners. AXIGEN delivers the security, mobility and adaptability which modern businesses need and demand – at a price they can afford:

• Cost efficiency. AXIGEN is extremely affordable. While migrating 50 users to Exchange Server 2007/Windows Server 2003 R2 would cost more than $7,000, AXIGEN Business Edition can be deployed for as little as $525. Additionally, as it can be run on almost any hardware, businesses will not need purchase additional server hardware.
  
  AXIGEN’s completely transparent per-mailbox licensing model enables you to keep down costs by buying only what you need. You do not need to buy CALs, you do not need to pay for hidden costs in order to be able to access certain features and all AXIGEN add-ons clearly described and priced.
  
  In addition to the Business Edition, AXIGEN is also offered in a Service Provider Edition, in an Enterprise Edition and in a no-cost Office Edition. Whatever the size of your business, you will find an edition of AXIGEN that meets your needs and is within your budget.
  


• Serious security. AXIGEN has been designed from the ground up to provide serious security for both your network and the data that it holds. AXIGEN supports CRAM-MD5, LOGIN, PLAIN, DIGEST-MD5 and GSSAPI client authentication, has a built-in firewall, enables the creation of message acceptance and routing policies and more.
  
  To enable you to leverage your investment in existing security products, AXIGEN provides plug-in support for numerous leading antivirus and anti-spam engines including ESET NOD32, Symantec BrightMail, Kaspersky AntiVirus, SpamAssassin, BitDefender Security for Mail Server, Trend Micro InterScan Messaging Security Suite and more.
  


• Collaboration. AXIGEN’s advanced groupware features make cost-effective collaboration a reality by enabling folders, calendars, contacts and tasks to be shared between users. Administrators can create complex hierarchies for folder permissions, ensuring that AXIGEN can be configured to meet the specific security policies and in-place working procedures of any organization.
  


• Mobility. AXIGEN’s WebMail client empowers road warriors and other remote users with anywhere-access to their email from any internet-connected computer anywhere in the world. The WebMail client has an easy-to-use, Outlook-like interface to ensure that users can communicate without complication.
  


• Adaptability. AXIGEN is highly scalable and suitable for deployment in a business of any size, from SMB to Service Provider.  AXIGEN can easily be plugged into the existing infrastructure and can be used with any standards compliant email client. AXIGEN’s Outlook connector enables businesses to unleash the collaborative capabilities of any version of Outlook, including Outlook 2007.
  
  Clustering support for high-availability solutions is also available within the Service Provider Edition or can be added via separately licensed add-ons, should you choose a different AXIGEN edition.
  


• Easy administration. AXIGEN makes life easy for administrators. Configuration and maintenance can be speedily accomplished via the intuitive Web Administration Console and other operations can be entirely automated using the Command Line Interface. AXIGEN also includes more than 100 customizable reports enabling administrators to quickly compile information relating to email traffic, server health and more.
  
  Easy administration enables AXIGEN to deliver a high return on investment (ROI) driven by increased administrator productivity.

In addition to the above, AXIGEN of course provides all the features and functionality that you would expect to find in a modern mail server: AXIGEN supports SMTP, IMAP, POP3 and RPOP, has List Server capabilities and an integrated Personal Organizer that provides access to a web-based Calendar, Journal, Tasks and Notes.

The bottom line

For many businesses, the mail server has become a real headache. Do they continue to use an unsupported legacy server, or break the bank and upgrade to a more recent version? Empowering users with anywhere-access to their email would undoubtedly boost productivity, but what if the budget will not stretch to that? Outsourcing to a provider of hosted email servers may save some money, but is it worth the risk? Administration is becoming a job of nightmare proportions, but what’s the alternative?

AXIGEN can solve these problems by delivering a messaging and collaboration platform that is easy to maintain, secure, highly scalable, extremely affordable, backed by highly effective, non-stop technical support services.

So, whether you’re searching for a replacement for your current resource-draining mail server or simply looking for a more economical way to provide your end users with a best-in-class messaging and collaboration platform, you should certainly consider AXIGEN.

To find out more about the AXIGEN product line, please visit www.axigen.com.

About the Authors

Brett Callow and Rhonda Turner are technical consultants providing services to a number of leading international technology companies and have been extensively involved in the planning and development of various industry-standard IT certification examinations.

References

¹Exchange Server 2007 Pricing
http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/howtobuy/default.mspx#E3D

²Frequently Asked Questions about Exchange Server 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/2007/evaluate/topquestions.mspx

³Upgrading to Exchange 2007
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124008.aspx

About Gecad Technologies
http://www.axigen.com/about-us/company/