Ceryx: High-Availability, Hosted Exchange

The Ceryx team has been so busy, building and managing highly available, Enterprise grade email and messaging solutions that they haven’t had a chance to even shave . . .

The truth is, some of the boys at Ceryx took the entire month to grow facial hair in support of a great cause – Movember. Movember is a month long event involving the growing of moustaches to raise awareness and funds for men’s health issues such as prostate cancer.

The team helped raise $3550 for this great cause. Have a look at the before and after shots below. I look forward to next Movember when I might join this hairy cause.

Before Shaving:

 After Shaving:

Join us at INTEROP in New York on November 16-20, 2009  This November, Ceryx will be exhibiting at INTEROP New York. INTEROP is an IT Conference and expo for experts on emerging and key technologies as well as for vendors and consumers. The conference is being held at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in Manhattan and we hope you will be able to attend.   

Ceryx will be at Booth 645, near the Free Education Rooms and Concession Area.  For more information on INTEROP, visit their website http://www.interop.com/newyork/ 

A few customers have asked us how prepared we are, as an organization, should a larger outbreak of the Flu occur.

We have built much of our organization around contingency plans to safe guard against unforeseen problems like this. Our replication technology, with data centers in two countries, is just one example of how we have built technology to ensure business continuity.

Similarly, we have developed a set of operating procedures that facilitate remote access should employees not be able to make it into the office.

Should illness, inclement weather or any other variable prohibit employees from making it into our offices, we have the ability to securely manage and monitor all our infrastructure remotely – including our phone systems, desktop computers and of course our messaging platform.

Internally we have also established cross-training practices to ensure that should an employee become seriously ill, there is always someone else who is capable of handling the task at hand. Call it human failover.

Fortunately we haven’t had to use these measures in the past couple weeks – everyone is healthy.

Like everyone, we hope this current situation will pass with minimal impact but we want to take this time to reassure our customers that we are prepared for anything.

John