
8 1.3 RAMS
1.3 RAMS
RAMS was an abbreviation used by my team when we delivered the very
first Exchange 2000 Academy program in September 1999. After spending
several months working with the Microsoft engineering team and develop-
ing the material, Donald Livengood of Hewlett Packard (HP) came up with
the RAMS acronym, which is derived from reliability, availability, manage-
ability, and scalability. These four key features are well implemented and
represented by many key functions of the product.
In fact, since the release of Microsoft Exchange 2000 in late 2000, and
later with Exchange 2003, many deployments managed to benefit from the
RAMS features of ...