Preview version of Exchange2013 is ready

As last week the new version of Office, including Exchange and Office 365, has been made available to customers. The preview version of Exchange Server 2013 can be downloaded here. Many great benefits with the next release of Exchange. I just list two of them recoginized as storage pontential impacting: 

• Reduced costs by optimizing for next generation of hardware 

  Exchange is now optimized for 8TB disks, by reducing database IOPS by +50% and optimizing for multiple databases per volume to increase aggregate disk utilization while maintaining reasonable database sizes. Ever growing memory capacity is used to improve search query performance and reduce IOPS. All this allows you and your end users to have larger mailboxes at lower costs.

• Significantly reduced operational overhead for high availability 

  DAG management is simplified via automatic DAG network configuration, enhancements to DAG management cmdlets, support for multiple databases per disk, and enhancements to lagged copies. Auto-recovery capabilities – inherently built into DAGs – are now extended to the rest of Exchange and all protocols. Client-initiated, automatic recovery allows you to reduce recovery time for site failures from hours to under a minute.

More details goes to http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2012/07/23/the-new-exchange.aspx.