Abstract
Enterprises constantly face the challenge of choosing solutions (including storage solutions) that fulfill their present and future requirements, while curtailing their Capital Expenditure. CIOs and their teams are cautious about using open source products due to concerns around integration with other open source and proprietary Storage products. We are proposing a Architecture using optimized combination of Open Source Applications (Zimbra MailServer), Proprietary Storage products and an integration ‘glue’ code. This architecture encompasses Disaster Recovery, Data Protection (from online/ offline) and Hierarchical Storage Management aspects as well. The proposed solution has been deployed in a production environment.