Foreword

Storage and email systems are usually the domains of different IT experts in large companies. Some folks look after storage design, allocation, tuning, and support, and some serve the same function for the email servers. It is often true that the larger the environment, the bigger the gap that exists between the two teams. When this happens, you may find that mail server performance suffers as the storage fails to cope with I/O demand, you spend too much money on storage, or you have problems achieving the kind of business continuity that you need for mission-critical applications like email.

The gap exists because the storage community usually takes a hardware-centric approach to technology while the email team looks at things from ...

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