Yahoo Zimbra: Open Source Email and Collaboration

Yahoo Zimbra

STEALTH Content Store for Yahoo! Zimbra™ Collaboration Suite , using Caringo™ CAStor™ as the infrastructure for its message storage.

The Zimbra Collaboration Suite includes e-mail, shared calendar and instant messaging that all work together as a complete end-to-end solution. The STEALTH Content Store for Zimbra Collaboration Suite integrates and uses Caringo CAStor as a simple, cost-effective storage cluster to function as a Zimbra Message Store. It coordinates the Message Store and uses simple semantics to recognize file commands to invoke redirection calls to CAStor when it recognizes message and file data objects.

The solution is using Caringo CAStor as a simple, cost-effective storage cluster to function as a Zimbra Message Store. The STEALTH Content Store for Zimbra Collaboration Suite coordinates the Message Store and uses simple semantics to recognize file commands to invoke redirection calls to CAStor when it recognizes message and file data objects.

  • Transform email and collaboration to become more efficient
  • Make administration and integration less painful

While email use has increased dramatically with the growth of the Internet, the underlying messaging systems most enterprises count on to keep pace were generally designed more than a decade ago. These older systems can be frail and challenging to run in today's frenetic environment. Zimbra is leveraging the strength of the open source philosophy to innovate enterprise communication and STEALTH Software has extended its value by integrating it to Caringo CAStor.

Business Benefits
  • Improve Mail Store Performance. Reduce storage capacity in the Mail Server by storing unstructured content externally improves Server  performance and reliability.
  • Faster Backup and Recovery. Reduce file system footprint to improve backup/recovery times and ensure content protection.
  • Manage Regulatory Requirements. Address corporate governance and regulatory requirements from the application through storage and archiving.
  • Reduce Storage and Storage Handling Costs. Reduce storage costs by utilizing standard server hardware with CAStor for content storage, resulting in a direct ROI.
Solution Value
  • Optimize capital expenses
    • Trade cost effective content storage for expensive
    • Mail Server storage
  • Improved operational expenses
    • Enables seamless storage management
    • Facilitates cost-effective business continuance and disaster recovery
  • Delivers richer content management policies
    • Robust archival and immutable writes
    • Guaranteed retention and deletion
  • Easy installation and implementation
    • Tooling for automated migration of existing Zimbra Mail Stores
    • Quick Return on Investment

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