Disaster recovery plus

I was just given a briefing by a company that has developed a very interesting technology that synchronizes Outlook content with the data store of another leading messaging system (I can't be more specific about the identities because the product has not yet been announced). The demo I received demonstrated very good performance, allowing email content, calendar entries, contacts, etc. to be entered into Outlook and then appear within just a couple of seconds in the other messaging system. Synchronization back to Outlook worked equally as well.

This client-side product will have a number of uses, but on the short list will be selective disaster recovery for individuals within a company without having to roll out an entire DR system, as well as allowing users to access their email without the Outlook client, OWA or an Exchange Server.

The offering is planned for announcement either later this month or in early April and pricing has yet to be determined.

I was quite impressed by what I saw.