PostPath, creator of the industry’s only email and collaboration server that offers enterprises a drop-in alternative to Exchange™, today announced that it has entered into a partnership with VMware, the world’s leading provider of virtualization solutions for x86-based servers and desktops.
PostPath also announced the immediate availability of PostPath Server VMware Edition, a pre-assembled Linux and PostPath Server VMware image (or “Virtual Appliance”) that customers can deploy without installing an operating system and that requires the bare minimum of site-specific configuration. PostPath Server VMware Edition is the first enterprise-compatible virtualized corporate email server environment.
The EMMES Corporation, a Contract Research Organization (CRO) located in Maryland that supports clients in clinical and biomedical research, was an early user of the PostPath Server VMware Edition. Evan Wagner, director of network operations and security at EMMES, said, “We are finding it invaluable to be able to easily virtualize our corporate email servers, and to use virtualized data management to handle our backup and restore needs. Virtualization, combined with PostPath’s efficient architecture and drop-in interoperability with our Outlook desktops, is delivering improved operational efficiency in our system administration and a higher quality of service for our users.”
Not only does PostPath Server VMware Edition reduce email server installation time to as little as five minutes, its Linux operating system and “Always Consistent” file-based data storage architecture enable it to fully leverage the powerful capabilities of VMware. This enables enterprises to avoid the virtualization issues seen with Exchange’s Windows architecture and concerns with Exchange’s write-sequence-dependent database consistency.
In particular, PostPath Server VMware Edition enables the use of VMotion to dynamically migrate a server from one hardware platform to another without service interruption. The product also enables the use of VMware snapshotting as the server’s primary backup mechanism. VMware snapshots deliver incremental backup capabilities, and PostPath’s restore tool performs restore operations at the server, user, folder or individual message level, direct from the snapshot to the live server, without the need for any intermediate staging platform.
“PostPath and VMWare have the common objective of optimizing the operational efficiency, ease of ownership, and cost effectiveness of companies’ infrastructure software deployments,” said Steve Erbst, vice president of sales and worldwide alliances at PostPath. “By working closely with VMWare, and through the compatibility testing and customer deployment of PostPath Server VMware Edition, we have shown how customers can benefit immediately from VMware’s ease of deployment, migration, data management, and high-availability technologies,” concluded Erbst.
About PostPath Server and PostPath Server VMware Edition
PostPath Server is a flexible, open and natively interoperable Linux-based corporate email and collaboration server. PostPath Server supports existing corporate systems such as unmodified Outlook™ desktops, Active Directory™ tools, and third-party applications such as Blackberry™ Enterprise Server, through PostPath’s unique network protocol interoperability, for ease-of-transition and true co-existence. In addition, PostPath Server’s blend of high performance, ease of installation and ownership, and flexibility enables customers to save money on their infrastructure budget while taking advantage of the best next-generation collaboration capabilities.
PostPath Server VMware Edition includes a pre-installed and configured copy of both Linux and the PostPath Server that enables rapid deployment and the leveraging of VMware technologies for platform migration, backup and restore, and high availability. A free version can be downloaded at: http://order.postpath.com/purchase/new?vmware=true.
About VMware
VMware (NYSE:VMW) is the global leader in virtual infrastructure software for industry-standard systems. Organizations of all sizes use VMware solutions to simplify their IT, fully leverage their existing computing investments and respond faster to changing business demands. VMware is based in Palo Alto, California and majority-owned by EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC). For more information, visit http://www.vmware.com.
About PostPath
PostPath has developed the industry’s first drop-in compatible alternative to Microsoft Exchange. Fully interoperable with the Exchange ecosystem, PostPath’s email and collaboration server provides enterprises a lean, high-performance messaging infrastructure, a radically improved cost model, and an innovation-rich upgrade path for traditional and Linux-friendly messaging environments. PostPath was founded in December 2003 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California. For more information, visit www.postpath.com
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