Benefits of the Virtual Solution for Email Archiving using VMware
Organizations with a VMware ecosystem often prefer the advantages of virtualization and may opt for deploying virtual appliances over physical appliances. Whether it is cutting costs or fast-paced deployment and provisioning, these appliances offer a host of advantages.
In the context of email archiving, virtual appliances offer a wide scope of benefits. Virtualization can provide better and simpler data loss prevention, better performance, and strong adherence to email compliance requirements.
The flexibility and scalability of virtual email archiving appliances ensures that they can easily become part of the technical and business management processes for organizations of any size, and even for ISPs, governments and universities.
The core benefit of a virtual appliance built within the VMware environment is its ability to match the performance expectations of the organization that deploys it, including the flexibility to grow as the company’s email storage requirements grow. Scalability, customization and flexibility are the hallmark of these solutions.
For large scale deployments, a virtual email archiving system has the capacity to join multiple virtual machines together. This allows the system to create a precise match to the needs of the company that is using it, even when those storage needs go beyond what one virtual machine can serve.
Centralized Resource Management
A virtual email archiver also centralizes management, even in cases of global distribution. The virtual system can be controlled and its resources managed remotely, addressing both performance and data security concerns.
The most important feature for email archiving is data preservation. With virtualized solutions, a more realistic data protection program ensures that the data that the appliance is preserving is safe. The ability to backup the appliance data along with the rest of the virtual environment greatly simplifies administration.
Integrated Core VMware Advantages
There are several core VMware advantages that virtualized email archiving solutions offer: smart virtual storage solutions through balanced input/output latency, group-based storage facilities, and easy storage management. The flexibility of storage management can be critical to the entire archiving process, empowering removal of bottlenecks throughout the use cycle.
VMware’s trademark dynamic allocation of physical resources optimizes virtual machine performance and provides a high performance email archiving process. Virtual solutions in a VMware environment are diverse and fully custom built to meet the specific needs of an industry or sector.
Benefits of Virtual Solutions
Virtual email retention solutions provide strong cost savings. These savings are achieved by simplifying the infrastructure. Lower hardware requirements, reduced power consumption, and minimized space needs all contribute to lower infrastructure costs while maintaining email storage.
Disaster recovery is quick and is reliable. Typically, in the case of disasters, the complete environment can easily be restored using VMware’s sophisticated infrastructural management tools.
The process of rapid deployment of virtual servers on legacy hardware is also easy. The flexibility and customizability of the virtual email archiving system allows it to be optimized on any generation of hardware.
