Visendo Software Virtualization with Microsoft Hyper-V

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What is Microsoft Hyper-V and how it works

Visendo Virtual Fax Server with Hyper - V

Visendo Virtual Email Security with Hyper-V

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Virtualization: Server Consolidation and Security

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Computing Technology Today

The demand for deploying and maintaining the increasing number of applications triggers it growth in number of added server to IT organizations. Purchasing more and more servers, organizations face growing server sprawl that comes with challenges and disadvantages:

Rising direct and indirect costs. In addition to the expense of adding new hardware, organizations pay more for power, cooling, network infrastructure, storage infrastructure, server administration, data center upgrades or new data centers.

Poor Return on Invested Capital. The common practice of dedicating a single server to each x86 application and sizing it for peak loads has led to severe underutilization of server assets in most data centers.

Decreasing Flexibility. Managing servers becomes increasingly difficult as the number of servers grows and the number of applications continues to multiply.

Reduced Efficiency. As server sprawl increases, IT organizations are forced to spend more time on reactive tasks such as server provisioning,

Microsoft Hyper-V: Consolidating and Containing Servers

Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 is a stand-alone hypervisor-based server virtualization product that allows customers to virtualize workloads onto a single physical server. Microsoft Hyper-V meets the challenges of server sprawl and underutilization by reducing hardware and operating costs by as much as 50%. A virtual infrastructure also simplifies server deployment and automates resource management to optimize capacity and infrastructure management. Microsoft virtualization technology makes it possible to package a complete x86 server into a portable virtual machine package. Multiple virtual machines can then run simultaneously and independently on a single x86 server with consolidation ratios often exceeding five virtual machines per host processor.

Hyper-V provides a dynamic, reliable, and scalable virtualization platform combined with a

single set of integrated management tools to manage both physical and virtual resources,

enabling you to create an agile and dynamic data center. Hyper-V enables:


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Server Consolidation

Businesses are under pressure to ease management and reduce costs while retaining and

enhancing competitive advantages, such as flexibility, reliability, scalability, and security. The

fundamental use of virtualization to help consolidate many servers on a single system while

maintaining isolation helps address these demands. One of the main benefits of server

consolidation is a lower total cost of ownership (TCO), not just from lowering hardware

requirements but also from lower power, cooling, and management costs.

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

Business continuity is the ability to minimize both scheduled and unscheduled downtime.

That includes time lost to routine functions, such as maintenance and backup, as well as

unanticipated outages. Hyper-V includes powerful business continuity features, such as live

backup and quick migration, enabling businesses to meet stringent uptime and response

metrics.

Disaster recovery is a key component of business continuity. Natural disasters, malicious attacks, and even simple configuration problems like software conflicts can cripple services and applications until administrators resolve the problems and restore any backed up data. Leveraging the clustering capabilities of Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V now provides support for disaster recovery (DR) within IT environments and across data centers, using geographically dispersed clustering capabilities. Rapid and reliable disaster and business recovery helps ensure minimal data loss and powerful remote management capabilities.

Testing and Development

Testing and development are frequently the first business functions to take advantage of

virtualization technology. Using virtual machines, development staffs can create and test a

wide variety of scenarios in a safe, self-contained environment that accurately approximates

the operation of physical servers and clients. Hyper-V maximizes utilization of test hardware

which can help reduce costs, improve life cycle management, and improve test coverage.

With extensive guest OS support and checkpoint features, Hyper-V provides a great platform

for your test and development environments.

Dynamic Data Centers

Hyper-V, together with your existing system management solutions, such as Microsoft

System Center, can help you realize the dynamic data center vision of providing self-

managing dynamic systems and operational agility. With features like automated virtual

machine reconfiguration, flexible resource control, and quick migration, you can create a


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dynamic IT environment that uses virtualization to not only respond to problems, but also to

anticipate increased demands.

Benefits of Server Consolidation and Containment • Dramatically lower costs. IT organizations can reduce hardware and operating costs by as much as 50% from implementing a Hyper-V server consolidation solution. Fewer servers also mean lower costs for administration, power, cooling and data center infrastructure. • Boosted utilization and availability. If a physical server goes down, all the virtual machines on that hardware will migrate automatically and restart upon another physical server within the resource pool. • Improved manageability and reliability. Hyper-V reduces data center complexity by reducing the number of servers that IT organizations need to manage. Meanwhile, the Hyper-V hypervisor sets the standard for reliability. . • Simplified server provisioning. IT departments can reduce the time it takes to provision new servers by 50-70%. • Improved ability to handle future growth. Because the Hyper-V solution eliminates the need to dedicate a physical server to each workload (or server application), organizations can more effectively monitor growth in relation to utilized capacity.

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Fax Server Virtualization with Microsoft Hyper-V and

Visendo Fax Server

Virtualized fax server solutions are quickly becoming the standard platform of choice.

Corporations are making the paradigm shift from physical servers to adopting such

virtualization technologies as Microsoft Hyper-V. By leveraging virtualization technologies,

Visendo Faxing Solutions enables customers to lower capital and operational costs while

providing an efficient and flexible faxing solution.

Visendo Fax Server can be installed in a virtual server farm in order to provide high

availability and redundancy for your fax server solution. Visendo Fax Server can be rapidly

deployed by using a virtual server. Virtualization software can be configured automatically

to relocate the FAXCOM server from one host to another.

Fax server virtualization means, aside from using a virtual server application – like Hyper-V, enabling a FoIP environment by using a T.38 protocol.


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Implementation of T.38 FoIP requires a VoIP implementation with routers and gateways

configured for T.38 support. It is generally necessary for customers to configure their VoIP

network to support T.38 FoIP – it is not a default feature of the VoIP implementation.

Customers will need access to technical resources able to configure their VoIP routers and

gateways to assist Visendo with the implementation.

Connecting Visendo Fax Server within a T.38 protocol, can easily be done with media

gateways from worldwide renowned telecom hardware providers (click on the links to read

the case studies) like Lancom (with Lancapi media gateway), Dialogic( various VoIP

gateways), XCapi media gateway, Funkwerk (RemoteCapi media gateway). Read more about

Visendo FoIP applications here.

Furthermore, Visendo Fax Solutions (both Visendo Fax Server and Visendo Fax@Mail) make

it possible to have a virtual Modem (com port).

Benefits of Fax Server Virtualization

Eliminate hardware dependency through software virtualization

Take advantage of existing IP infrastructure

Remove inter-company PSTN charges

Simplify disaster recovery by leveraging virtualization

Lower total equipment, maintenance and operating costs due to network consolidation

Reduce long distance costs and eliminate the need to maintain fax ports on your PBX system

Have a migration path from traditional fax to IP fax in the move to VoIP networks

Business continuity – always-on-faxing with Microsoft Hyper-V

Increased server utilization – with multiple servers running on one box, companies can maximize their hardware and personnel resources

Reduced software and hardware costs by up to 50%.

A smaller data center footprint with no reduction in scalability

Time saving – customers no longer have to build physical servers

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Email Security Virtualization with Microsoft Hyper-V and

Visendo

In a tight economy it makes more sense than ever to deploy virtualized solutions for email

gateway security. Visendo Mail Checker Server makes it fast and easy to gain award-winning

protection and take advantage of the high-availability, scalability, business continuity, and

cost-saving benefits inherent in any virtualized environment.

Benefits of going virtual with your company’s email protection solution

1. High accuracy: unprecedented email protection with over 99 percent spam catch rate and near zero false positives—providing the highest level of accuracy available.

2. Virtual appliance advantage: The Virtual Email Protection Gateway is ideal for businesses that have adopted or are moving to a virtual environment. Gain the added benefit of virtualization through rapid deployment and provisioning, while maximizing your existing hardware investment. Increase your flexibility with the option to run multiple Hyper-V-based virtual appliances on a single enterprise class server.

3. Near zero system administration time: High accuracy rates are achieved with little to no system administration. No training and ramp up period is required before the system is effective. The Virtual Email Protection Gateway also includes automatic monitoring and alerts for ease of system management.

4. Maximized productivity per user: advanced reporting interface significantly reduces the time users spend to manage their email. Quarantine messages are sorted by the likelihood of being legitimate, reducing the review time. Potential fraudulent messages ("phish") are categorized and accurately identified to safeguard the user.

5. Mail Checker Server Virtual Email Protection Gateway is based on a hardened and secure OS. The Web-based administration console and user quarantine are accessible through HTTPS.

6. Works with all email systems and SMTP servers: the Virtual Email Protection Gateway appliance works with all email systems and supports multiple Internet domains.

7. Optimal for small to medium businesses (SMB) and organizations due to virtualization, unified communications characteristics, spam protection and low pricing.

Why Virtualization for Email Gateway Security Applications? Email security is especially well suited for the cost savings and increased efficiency of a virtual appliance deployment. Email is critical to conducting daily business, which is why


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even in tough economic times, nearly 60 percent of enterprises plan to increase spending on email security, according to IDC. Spam continues to proliferate and grow, which quickly burdens physical servers and taxes management resources, and with extreme fluctuations in spam volumes, server capacity needs are unpredictable. Organizations must face difficult choices between unplanned spending on additional capacity to minimize the impact of high spam volumes on the business, or putting up with decreased performance and user dissatisfaction. Many organizations plan to use virtual appliances to achieve their email gateway security goals.

Advanced Virtual Email Gateway Security MULTI-TIERED SPAM, PHISHING DEFENSE, AND OPTIONAL ENCRYPTION Visendo Mail Checker Server uses a combination of in-the-cloud reputation services to block a large portion of malicious email before it can hit the premises-based gateway. Defenses built into the virtual appliance provide in-depth email analysis using a variety of leading-edge techniques, such as patent-pending image spam detection, identifying malicious embedded URLs and other up-to-the-minute defenses to counter new spamming techniques. Organizations can apply automatic profiling and reputation services to stop spam and viruses, creating a firewall against DHA and bounced mail attacks. Visendo Mail Checker Server also uses signatures, heuristics, and reputation services to stop phishing—including corporate spear-phishing attacks. FLEXIBLE CONTENT FILTERING Inbound and outbound emails and attachments are scanned for inappropriate content and loss of sensitive data, based on attachment characteristics, lexicons, identifiers, and customized data rules. Visendo Mail Checker Server based in virtual environments provides flexible remediation options, including company-specific legal disclaimers, quarantine emails and issue alerts; it enables policies to target senders or recipients by company, group or individual; and it supports data loss prevention, regulatory compliance and corporate governance initiatives.


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Visendo Email Protection Key Features

The table below shows a a list of other virtualization solutions that can be used in correlation with Visendo Fax and Email Solutions. To be mentioned that both Fax and Email Solutions can be used on Linux and Windows operating Systems.

We have chosen Microsoft Hyper-V as the optimal Virtualization Solution for Visendo Fax/Email Suites in terms of pricing, speed and easiness to deploy and install

Read more about Visendo Email Protection applications here.

Find out more about Microsoft Hyper-V on Microsoft’s dedicated website

Enterprise Class Reliability

Scales to meet the needs of virtually

any enterprise

SLA-supported uptime and

performance

Tried and tested backup e-mail

system for rapid disaster recovery

Secure, strategically located, as

OutOfBox Solution

Active Protection

Layered real-time anti-spam and

anti-malware defenses

Eliminate threads before they reach

the corporate firewall

Assists with policy enforcement

Simplified Management

Simplifies IT environment by minimizing

the need to deploy, configure, monitor,

and update in-house e-mail security

servers and applications

Helps free network and server resources

Eliminates up-front capital investment

Offers a predictable, subscription-based

payment

Lower total cost of ownership when

compared with on-premises solutions

Allows you to respond quickly to e-

Discovery requests

Helps free up administrator time to focus

on other projects

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Windows Linux Oracle

VirtualBox

VMWare Hyper-V Citrix Solution

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Fax/Email

Solutions

Host Machine

Speed High

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64 Bit and virtualization

support

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Very good Very

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Speed in VoIP environments Very fast Fast Fast Very Fast

USB support and transfer

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Visendo Green Communications Suite

Visendo Fax Server suite - Server suite provides support to Modern Fax Technology Features and automates sending, receiving, and managing your network faxes from your desktop, while integrating full faxing functionality with your existing email system — all while providing unlimited fax sends and receives without monthly fees or per-transmission charges.

popConnect 10 - is a POP3/IMAP-Connector for your mail server when sending and receiving your e-mail. It retrieves incoming e-mails from your POP3/IMAP-Accounts on the Internet and transmits them to the correct recipient, and vice versa.

Fax@Mail 10 - by simply using an ISDN card and Visendo fax@MAIL, you can receive faxes per email with no auxiliary server needed.

Visendo Mail Checker - Visendo Mailchecker is a pretty, easy to use anti-spam and anti-phishing tool that works with any email client and, thanks to Multi-layered filters, has a good detection rate.

About Visendo

We are an Independent Software Vendor (ISV) specialized in internet systems integration

and unified messaging on Microsoft technologies. A leading German provider of messaging

solutions for Microsoft Platforms with history on market and 25,000 customers, its adding

FAX, MMS and VOIP capabilities to Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, Office and Office

Communications Server and We continue to be one of the first three Microsoft gold partners

in e-commerce on the West European market: this is the highest level for a Microsoft

partner. Hence, you, as a potential customer, will benefit on our experience and quality of

services that guarantees your investment.

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