eDiscovery, Archiving, Anti-Virus, Compliance

PostPath has created the PostPath Server, an email messaging and collaboration server that is the only plug-compatible, drop-in commercially-supported alternative to Microsoft Exchange™ to run on the Linux Operating System.

Email has become the dominant communication and collaboration mechanism for organizations around the world. At the same time, regulatory and management requirements drive the need for failsafe archiving of communications and for secure protection of enterprise infrastructure from infection by software viruses.

Enterprises familiar with deploying archiving and/or anti-virus solutions with Microsoft Exchange will know that those products tend to be Exchange-specific solutions (or include Exchange-specific components) that tie directly to the software APIs at the Exchange server, and that they can drive high cost and complexity while substantially reducing overall server performance.

In contrast, PostPath's approach is to interface with archiving, compliance and anti-virus filtering solutions using open standards, not proprietary APIs. This allows PostPath Server administrators to increase system-design flexibility and reduce cost while improving system performance.

This whitepaper examines how drop-in compatibility uniquely enables the PostPath Server to leverage open standards and support archiving and anti-virus filtering even for communications that originate in proprietary Microsoft software - and how that ability to operate seamlessly in both a Microsoft-like and an open-standards fashion allows archiving and anti-virus filtering issues to be solved flexibly, comprehensively and efficiently.

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