<p>news The Federal Bureau of Meteorology has revealed plans to migrate its corporate email platform off an ageing Exchange 2007 platform and onto a managed services environment based on Exchange 2013, in a move congruent with a wider shift within major Australian organisations towards hosted or 'cloud'-based email platforms.</p><p>According to a request for tender document released this week, the Bureau is currently running an on-premise Exchange 2007 platform for email, partnered with an IronPort email gateway system. The email infrastructure is spread between two data centres, and CommVault is used for backup and archiving of email. The platform hosts some 3,080 mailboxes, used by some 1,750 users nationwide.</p><p>The system isn't just used for end user email of the normal kind; the agency's RFT document noted that its alerts system occasionally routed very high volumes of email alerts to external users through the Exchange platform, "which can result in over 10,000 alerts sent in one instance", for example.</p><p>The agency noted that its current email systems are currently using physical hardware that is "ageing", with an investigation underway into how best to cater for the upgrade.</p><p><a href="http://delimiter.com.au/2013/10/25/bureau-meteorology-switches-managed-email/">Keep reading...</a></p>