Attempting to manage today's email systems is one of the most challenging and important IT jobs today. According to a 2006 Radicati Group survey, The average corporate user generates and receives about 84 e-mails per day which require about 10 MB of storage on a daily basis. And by 2008, e-mails will require about 15.8 MB of space daily.
Email is growing in volume (number of messages sent), as is the number of email users and installations. There will be 1.4 billion mailboxes by the end of 2006 and that number will grow to 2.2 billion mailboxes in 2009, an average annual rate of 16%, from a study from Radicati in 2005.
Furthermore, with the surge of email growth, users are demanding 24/7 email availability. For most organizations, email is not only mission-critical ― it is the gateway to corporate decision making, accountability, and revenue.
Combining the growing volumes of email with the absolute demand for round-the-clock availability, email administrators are forced to create policies that are frequently ineffective, such as creating size limits/quotas for individual message stores. Moreover, to circumvent these policies, users store their email in multiple places (network drives, laptop hard drives, etc.) and in multiple formats (pst files, text files, etc.).
These policies, combined with email growth and users' availability requirements are producing inefficient, expensive storage management, complex email administration, and difficulty with regulatory compliance. Clearly, the effective management of email systems is a massive challenge.
From lost revenue to ineffective email policies, the problems associated with managing email systems have far reaching implications in both time and resources.
Exchange
LSI has developed a number of white papers and tools to simplify the process of optimizing Exchange Servers that utilize LSI storage systems.
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Customers need high performance and high availability storage in order to meet their service level agreements
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IT has to be able to backup and recover email regularly in order to keep the business running
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For most companies, email is considered to be a mission-critical application and needs to be available 24 x 7
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LSI offers storage systems with outstanding performance for Exchange that have some of the lowest TCO in the industry
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LSI offers hot backup and recovery solutions that eliminate backup windows and restore individual messages, faster than legacy systems
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Remote mirroirng and disaster recovery are part of the storage solutions portfolio that LSI offers
