Netmail Store is an innovative, intelligent, and cost-effective method for managing and storing the growing volume of corporate email. The solution is built on third-generation content addressed storage (CAS) technology and can be used to manage and store email archives and attachments. Netmail Store is part of an integrated email management platform that addresses email compliance, security, archiving, and storage.
Infinitely Scalable and Secure Email Storage
If you’re like most organizations, more and more digital content is being created, stored, and distributed in your email system than ever before. With as much as 90% of that data in the form of email attachments, such as documents, spreadsheets and images, organizations are challenged trying to store it using traditional file systems.
Unable to scale in capacity and volume, traditional file systems have become too complex to manage and expensive to maintain, leaving organizations under tremendous pressure to better manage the lifecycle of content from creation to disposition and ensure its integrity.
Reduce the Cost and Complexity of Managing and Provisioning Storage
Netmail Store intelligently manages the lifecycle of your email records from creation to disposition, while dramatically reducing the cost, complexity and time required managing and provisioning storage.
- ELIMINATES THE NEED FOR BACKUP. Ensure the availability of content with Netmail Store’s automatic data replication and constant uptime — in the event of node failure, Netmail Store automatically replicates the content of the failed node to a healthy node.
- START SMALL AND EXPAND. Add new capacity with no provisioning or configuration required and without taking the system out of service. Netmail Store’s performance actually improves with each new node added to the cluster.
- GUARANTEED DATA INTEGRITY. Store your data in a fixed content format that cannot be modified, thereby complying with record retention laws. Netmail Store provides the integrity of an archive with the performance of primary storage.
- SELF-CONFIGURING AND SELF-HEALING. Netmail Store is easily installed and configures, manages, and heals itself, reducing IT overhead.
- DRIVES DOWN THE COST OF STORAGE. Can be combined with other Netmail products for a comprehensive email risk management strategy that bridges security and compliance gaps.
Understand the issues driving the need for scalable, content addressable storage
Why You Need Secure Storage
The Drivers
In today’s increasingly electronic world, your organization’s storage needs are constantly growing.
As today’s organizations store more data electronically than ever before, the need for easily managed and provisioned storage continues to grow. As archiving regulations tighten, more and more organizations are archiving the contents of their corporate email systems, in addition to storing active content. According to IDC, the volume of electronically stored data will grow from 281 Exabytes in 2007 to nearly 1,800 Exabytes in 2011.
The Problem
Traditional storage offerings are unable to grow as your storage needs increase.
Traditional storage models are expensive to purchase and require a lot of time and energy to deploy and maintain. To achieve redundancy, organizations often deploy multiple storage devices simultaneously. According Forrester Research, 78% of companies have more than one content repository and 43% have six or more.
The Consequences
Without a scalable storage solution, your organization risks losing its valuable electronic data or losing money.
If your organization exceeds the capacity of your current storage solution, you will be faced with two choices: reduce the volume of your organization’s electronically stored data, thereby exposing yourself to penalties for non-compliance with record retention laws, or undertake the costly deployment of an additional storage resource.
The Solution
Your organization needs an innovative storage solution that scales to meet your current and future needs.
Netmail Store moves beyond the confines of traditional storage. It is scalable and affordable, and it offers the same reliability and data integrity of traditional storage options. In fact, Netmail Store is a high-performance solution that is as easy to use as it is dependable and secure.
The Benefits
By deploying Netmail Store, your organization will:
- Reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) of traditional storage.
- Minimize hardware, labour, and energy costs.
- Reduce administration overhead, lost productivity, and software costs.
- Cut costs associated with downtime and impact to business.
Learn More About Netmail Store’s Features & Benefits
Compatible with Netmail Secure and Netmail Archive
- Netmail Store is available as an optional storage solution for both Netmail Secure and Netmail Archive.
- Prevents storage duplication and enables system administrators to better control the flow and management of email attachments, while driving down the cost of storage and data management in Netmail Secure.
- Can be deployed in conjunction with Netmail Archive to provide primary or secondary storage for archived data, such as email messages and message attachments.
High Performing
Add more storage capacity by simply adding a new node to your Netmail Store cluster. Adding a node does not decrease performance. In fact, performance improves with each additional node.
- Eliminates the need for costly deployment of additional storage.
- Offers unbeatable performance, even as you expand your cluster.
- Minimizes administration overhead.
- Expand cluster capacity as your business grows in as little as 1 Terabyte increments.
- Introduce additional capacity as easily as booting a new server.
- Improve performance and throughput with the processing power of each new node.
Hardware Agnostic
Netmail Store is software-only content addressed storage (CAS) that can be installed on any x86 based architecture.
- Reduces IT costs by allowing you to choose the hardware that best suits your budget.
- Eliminates hardware lock-in.
Easy to Install
Netmail Store is easily installed by simply booting a server with the USB thumb drive.
- Add additional server nodes to create a Netmail Store cluster.
- No provisioning required with minimal IP configuration.
- Spares your IT department from the time and energy usually needed to install a new storage solution.
Self-Healing and Self-Managing
Netmail Store automatically balances its nodes, and in the event of a node failure, it replicates the content of the failed node to a healthy node.
- Offers optimal performance through load balancing.
- Keeps your data constantly available, even in the event of a node failure.
Automatic Replication
When new data is stored to Netmail Store, multiple replicas are automatically created.
- Automates data backup, mitigating data loss and unavailability.
- Eliminates the need for a second storage solution for backup purposes.
View Netmail Store’s Technical Specifications
Netmail Store’s Technical Specifications
Although Netmail Store will run on any x86 hardware, the following minimum system specifications are recommended for each node in an Netmail Store cluster.
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Chassis/Processor
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CPU
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Intel Xeon, AMD Athlon64, or equivalent
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System Memory
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1GB per disk drive total system memory
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Hard Drive
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SAS & SATA
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Network Interfaces
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Dual Gigabit Ethernet
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Discover What’s New in the Latest Release of Netmail Store
Release 2011.1
Netmail Store is simple and scalable content storage software designed to store electronic data. With the release of version 2011.1, Netmail Store adds several key features.
- An adaptive power conservation feature that allows Netmail Store to spin down disks and reduce CPU utilization after a configurable period of inactivity.
- The ability to proactively reduce the power consumption peak of the grid where power caps are required for budgetary or compliance reasons.
- Power and Suspend features that allows administrators to suspend volume recovery and set maximum power consumption.
