Scale. The 1050Vx more than doubles the 950Vx's capacity, up to 66 TB and around 10,000 mailboxes, while the deployment platforms, RAID options, and subscription licensing stay exactly the same between the two.

It comes down to your infrastructure and budget approach. The 1050Vx skips the hardware and runs as a subscription on your own virtual environment, which suits teams already standardized on VMware or Hyper-V. The physical 1050 is a one-time hardware purchase with dedicated RAID-60 storage built in. Talk to a rep and we'll compare the total cost both ways for your mailbox count.

You deploy a second archiver rather than trying to expand a single instance past its limits. Federated search then ties every archiver together, virtual or physical, so growing past one 1050Vx doesn't mean losing a unified view of your archived mail.

For most companies, yes. If you're well under that mailbox count, the 850Vx or 950Vx will cover you at a lower subscription cost with the same deployment flexibility. Talk to a rep and we'll size it honestly rather than sell you more than you need.

Yes. One subscription covers the 1050Vx regardless of how many of your 10,000 recommended users you're actually archiving, with no per-mailbox charges added on top.