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These days, does it seem like your exchange server is
becoming an overpriced fileserver?
As large business document email attachments increase in
frequency and size, email server administrators are being put under more
pressure to do more with less.
The size of the data, and its rapid growth rate means that
management and maintenance will become more complicated as time goes on, and
that more expensive upgrades will be required more frequently.
As it stands, there’s no practical way to store terabytes of
data on a single Exchange server without massively slowing down its
performance.
In a perfect world, you could manage this storage growth by
simply setting a policy for frequently deleting old, useless data. But the
unfortunate reality is that other departments, such as Legal and Finance, need
you to hang on to this data for several years in case the company runs into
legal problems.
So how do you maintain the speed and performance of your
Exchange server without sacrificing the company’s adherence to regulatory
requirements?
What’s needed now is a scalable, secure and fully automated
way of diverting these email attachments to another location, where they could
be quickly retrieved when needed.
Many of you may have simply thought of email archiving as
something that was strictly for ediscovery and disaster recovery. But a good
quality email archiving system can also dramatically improve the performance of
your Exchange server by replacing large email attachments with a pointer to the
remotely archived file.
This frees up your server resources and allows it to focus
on what it does best: managing the flow of emails.
If you find that your exchange server is overburdened, you
may want to look into archiving services as a cost-effective way to help boost
its performance.
About The Author:
Storagepipe Solutions has a wide array of email archiving
and online backup services that will help you manage the growing influx of email
and attachments.
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