Different Approaches to Storage

There are a wide range of demands placed on modern email servers. In addition to high availability and performance, the email store must be flexible, scaleable, and cost effective. Email content and the related attachments will continue to see significant growth. As the richness of the media we use to communicate increases, so do the storage requirements.

To achieve a significant improvement in performance and allow the email system to scale on a cost-effective basis as well as decrease system management and administration overhead, its necessary to adopt a different approach to storage; one that minimizes or eliminates completely the problems listed above. PostPath has done just that. After a review of existing storage approaches, we chose a storage architecture that eliminates the database entirely and seeks to leverage the speed, flexibility, reliability, and efficiency of modern filers and filing systems.