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E-mail systems have quickly become a critical lifeline for today’s business. According to the
Radicati Group, e-mail traffic rose by 35% in 2004 alone, stretching e-mail systems to process
as much as 76.8 billion messages per day.
This puts new burdens on IT groups tasked with managing critical e-mail infrastructures. E-mail service providers must ensure high e-mail availability and different levels of service, even in the face of frequently unpredictable spikes in demand. Likewise, large enterprises have turned to e-mail consolidation as a way to contain costs and centralize e-mail management.
Storage issues often take center stage, as systems strain to handle large volumes of simultaneous users and equally large directory structures. How well the storage performs under pressure often means the difference between easy e-mail management and long hours spent reconfiguring systems.
Capable of processing millions of simultaneous users and tens of thousands of e-mail messages
per minute, BlueArc has built a reputation for shattering independent e-mail speed records –
even when handling up to 2.5 million simultaneous users and 34 million messages per day.
Accommodating large directory structures with ease, one integrated, BlueArc Titan Tiered
Storage system can house millions of files and a single storage pool that is scalable up to 4 PB.
With support for over one million files per directory, BlueArc storage sets a new performance
bar for today’s robust e-mail environments which allows for a much simplified folder structure.
Thanks to BlueArc’s hardware-accelerated architecture and hardware-based file system,
BlueArc can quickly process both very large files and large volumes of small files.
When no disruption in e-mail service can be tolerated, BlueArc also delivers peace of mind
through its comprehensive set of field proven high availability features. Protecting data
from even catastrophic site failure, BlueArc storage supports no single point of failure,
and includes data path protection with NVRAM, parallel RAID striping, clustering and
block or file-level replication.users and e-mail transactions
BlueArc Titan systems incorporate a shared, virtual storage pool that makes quick work of
expanding storage capacity to accommodate e-mail growth. Now, administrators can set up
multiple virtual volumes of storage, each with its own capacity threshold and policy-based
data management. The Virtual Volumes remove the limitations of the physical disks or block
access volumes and allows smaller volumes to be efficiently spread across the disk spindles in
the system.
Capacity can be added or reduced in seconds to support the changing needs of key e-mail groups or different classes of e-mail service available. BlueArc storage also ensures optimal storage utilization, allowing administrators to develop rule-based policies for managing data via quotas, thin provisioning and even automatically migrating data to lower-cost tiers on the same Titan system.
Supporting both block- and file-based e-mail from within the same system, BlueArc eliminates the need for multiple systems and multiple storage architectures. Role-based administration also allows less experienced staff to perform common administration tasks, while protecting access to higher level tasks.
As wireless networks flourish, e-mail systems must remain
ever-vigilant to protect message data from the threat of virus
attack, security breaches or inadvertent deletion or corruption.
Incorporating built-in support for standard antivirus applications,
BlueArc allows pro-active antivirus scanning on writes and reads —
to minimize the impact on the performance of client access latency.
BlueArc systems naturally support common Ethernet security features, such as access control lists as well as integration into RADIUS and LDAP environments. They are also built with high levels of security to restrict access to files, directories or volumes. BlueArc can even offer file systems with write-once, read-many (WORM) functionality that meet the strictest compliance requirements by preventing files from being changed until a predefined retention date passes.
The right storage solution can prevent IT teams from working
overtime as they struggle to tune or grow systems and solve common
e-mail performance issues that accompany rapid e-mail growth.
BlueArc is a proven industry leader able to scale and perform even under the most demanding e-mail workloads. When critical e-mail systems are at stake, companies have come to depend on BlueArc storage for its high availability, performance and ease of provisioning.