A soultion like messenger in sharepoint for our staff to have internal communication?

Is there any soultion to have something like messenger in the sharepoint for our staff to have internal communication

other than communicator or groove
Like groove - Groove has workspace and we can chat too. Like that I am wondering if there is anything to chat in sharepoint

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    http://itsalllegit.wordpress.com/2013/08/05/dpm-2012-sp1-manually-copy-large-volume-to-secondary-dpm-server/
    I'd look at some other options. There are few good discussion you may want to read. See:
    http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1209963
    http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/316868-server-2012-2-node-cluster-without-san
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    StarWind iSCSI SAN & NAS

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