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Email archiving vendors need to pick their spots

Vendors need to clearly identify their place in the email archive value chain, stake their claims and articulate a vision. Infrastructure vendors need to understand the shifting economics of the business that increasingly emphasize risk reduction and over time, increased user productivity. Google-like architectures that write by appending to an existing ‘thread,’ preserve provenance and are highly parallel will gain momentum (many as hosted services).

Applications vendors need to provide the flexibility to choose infrastructure services and let markets determine what’s best from an infrastructure standpoint. Vendors should not lock into specific databases and architectures but rather broaden solutions to run on emerging architectures.

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Featured Case Study

Virtualization Energizes Cal State University

John Charles is the CIO of California State University, East Bay (CSUEB) and Rich Avila is Director, Server & Network Operations. In late 2007 they were both looking down the barrel of a gun. The total amount of power being used in the data center was 67KVA. The maximum power from the current plant was 75kVA. PG&E had informed them that no more power could be delivered. They would be out of power in less than six months. A new data center was planned, but would not be available for two years.

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Featured How-To Note

Storage Virtualization Design and Deployment

A main impediment to storage virtualization is the lack of multiple storage vendor (heterogeneous) support within available virtualization technologies. This inhibits deployment across a data center. The only practical approach is either to implement a single vendor solution across the whole of the data center (practical only for small and some medium size data centers) or to implement virtualization in one or more of the largest storage pools within a data center.

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