New methodologies for 'bottomless' e-mail storage

Networking Technology Update This newsletter is sponsored by Arsenal Digital Solutions Solving the Distributed Data Protection Problem Hackers, disgruntled and careless employees, equipment failure, broken pipes, fires, and natural disasters all pose threats to your data. Savvy IT and business managers have recognized that in order to deal with these challenges, they need to deploy a company-wide data protection infrastructure. Click here to read this whitepaper today! Networking Technology Update, 07/16/07 New methodologies for 'bottomless' e-mail storage By Victor Chang With e-mail the dominant enterprise communication vehicle - used for everything from simple notes to purchase orders, contracts, invoices and other critical business documents - managing swelling message stores has become a primary concern. Network World Buyers Guides Find the right products for your enterprise - fast. With seven categories - security, storage, convergence and VoIP, network infrastructure, network applications, wireless and LAN/WAN management - you can quickly pinpoint the hardware or software you need. With the side-by-side comparison tool you can evaluate product features and make the best purchase decisions for your enterprise. Click here to go to the Buyers Guides now. Add to that the range of new compliance and records-retention issues, and it is no surprise that a recent survey by Osterman Research shows e-mail use growing at 20% per year and message stores growing at more than 35% per year. But today’s most commonly deployed enterprise e-mail servers store data using database architectures that perform large numbers of separate I/O operations to complete a single transaction. To meet the demands, organizations typically add dedicated, costly storage and strictly limit individual storage capacity. New, open e-mail servers, however, enable a new, open messaging-storage process based on less expensive, modern filing systems that overcome the limitations of database architectures and improve overall performance. File-based storage lets these e-mail systems scale cost-effectively and decreases system-management complexity and administration overhead. This flexible approach simplifies the storage model and lets mailboxes (potentially bottomless) grow to sizes that are more conducive to the way employees use e-mail. For more on this story, please click here.

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