How does an "off-site" vendor archive internal email? (email that is sent/received between co-workers)
-----Original Message----- From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 10:41 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Calculating Storage for Archiving We're examining in-house verses off-site, and it's hard to compare apples to apples without knowing what would be required to do it in-house. The software costs are easy to calculate, but figuring out how much storage and backup capacity I'll need is trickier. One of the off-site vendors we're looking at charges a flat rate per user, regardless of mailbox size. Which I like the idea of, but it's not cheap. -----Original Message----- From: James Wells [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 9:57 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Calculating Storage for Archiving That will vary by vendor. I know that when I've used Zantaz, they had a mode that would just analyze/report but not modify anything. You'll have to see what your compression looks like, retention period for the archive, index sizes if searching...but I'd be sure to get a solution that let's you expand or oversubscribe the storage OR plan up front with the vendor how to deisgn the archive to cutoff after a certain date and use new storage for all future. (iex: past - 2008 goes in archive bucket 1, 2009-future goes in archive bucket 2). You probably need the latter method no matter what, because there's no platform that can just expand forever on large archives.... --James On 3/25/09, John Hornbuckle <[email protected]> wrote: > We're exploring options for e-mail archiving systems. Is there a > standard formula that can be used to estimate how much storage space > will be required per user? I don't have a clue how to come up with > reasonably reliable numbers for this. > > > > > John Hornbuckle > MIS Department > Taylor County School District > 318 North Clark Street > Perry, FL 32347 > > www.taylor.k12.fl.us > > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ > ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ > > -- Sent from my mobile device ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
