Rutter Networking Technologies Blog

When it comes to discussions for potential e-mail solutions, many of our clients have shown profound interest in the cloud this past year. With the advancements of many SaaS providers in the messaging space, particularly with Exchange Online, it is easy to understand. Despite the perks of having e-mail services hosted in the cloud, the current adoption rate for messaging in the cloud is only at 4%,  according to Gartner. However, these numbers are expected to shift to 55% by the year 2020, with the adoption rate slowly growing over time.
Aside from economics, there are many factors which have stalled a good number of our clients' adoption of cloud messaging. To illustrate these considerations, we have decided it would be best to review some of the additional considerations for Exchange Online.

It is not uncommon for files & shares to grow significantly in a Windows Server based network. Even with SOPs & change control, it is still relatively easy to fall behind on resource access  management. Most organizations do not have a great deal of insight into who has access to what as the organization grows and deals with change.

Today, more than 70 percent of IT budget is spent simply to maintain and manage existing infrastructure (Forrester Research). The result: IT organizations must continually increase resources to maintain a complex and inflexible infrastructure versus using them to rapidly and effectively respond to business needs.

Rutter Networking has recently been approved for the ITC47 integration contract.  We are very proud to have received this opportunity.

As of now, the expected release date for Windows Server 8 is between Q3 2012 and early 2013. Our Directory & Messaging team at Rutter is excited for the introduction and the opportunities it will bring. One of the most anticipated features of this new edition of the Windows server is the injection of claims-based access control. For marketing purposes, this role has been branded as “Dynamic Access Control."

Big data in the business world can have varying quantities depending on the size and capabilities of a company. For smaller companies, big data may consist of hundreds of gigabytes. While for larger companies it may be Terabytes or exabytes of data before they have to resort to alternative methods of collection.  Either way, as each year passes, data collection is getting heavier and heavier. It won't be long before many companies will be outsourcing their datasets to data analysts in order to obtain business and consumer trends within their market.

For our clients looking for a free tool as a means to crawl and pull PST archives into Exchange 2010, the Microsoft Exchange team just released the PST Capture tool.

The CRN Tech Elite 250 is the industries definitive list of solution providers with deep technical expertise and premier certifications in the data center market. The list was developed by CRN editors and is based on the level and depth of technical certifications from EMC, IBM, Cisco, VMware, Citrix, Microsoft, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Symantec and NetApp.

Based on some feedback from our customers, there has been some confusion regarding the role and function of the "alternate file share witness." The confusion lies in the event of datacenter activation; that the alternate file share witness would automatically come online as a means to provide quorum to the surviving DAG members and keep the databases mounted. So in many ways, some people view it as redundancy to the file share witness for an even numbered DAG.

We are excited to introduce our new Rutter Support Matrix PDF. This was created to standardize and simplify our Support offerings to our customers. This document describes all of Rutter's support offerings including documentation/onboard packaging, remote access, technical phone support, support portal access, emergency onsite support, assigned support engineering team, configuration assistance and technical account manager support, along with optional add-on features. Our coverage is classified into three categories: Bronze, Silver and Gold.