In the last five years, Microsoft Exchange has become either a leading business- or mission-critical application for the majority of its deployments. The IT professional is tasked with architecting and deploying a Microsoft Exchange solution that can recover from a storage failure in a graceful way and is cost-effective from both acquisition and operation viewpoints.

In this white paper, several of the key decision criteria are reviewed, helping you to better understand the implications of selecting one approach over the other when planning and designing Exchange Server 2007. The goal is to create a solution for Exchange Server 2007 that meets budget constraints and, more importantly, business requirements and changes that may occur in the lifetime of the deployment.