An Enterprise Messaging Solution using Integrated Open Source Software

Organizations are increasingly focusing on deploying Open source products in their IT and Business Enablement environments. Several of these stand alone open source products however lack some critical features essential for successful deployment and usage. This drawback can be overcome by a combination of Open Source products working collaboratively in an integrated environment. As an example, let us consider Zimbra Collaboration Suite Community Edition, an Open Source messaging solution, which lacks certain features in the area of Data Protection like Online backup, recovery and seamless Disaster Recovery. We conducted a Proof of Concept by integrating Open Storage, rsync and Heartbeat with Zimbra and were able to address most of the gap feature requirements. This paper articulates the background, framework and approach for the Proof of Concept. We would be demonstrating performance related data for the complete solution.

Learning Objectives

Understanding of Zimbra Mail Server, Open Solaris, Rsync, Heartbeat to develop integrated solutions
Understanding how current business requirements like Backup/Recovery, Disaster Recovery, Archival can be met using Open Source Software’s
Understanding how integration of open source products can help in closing the gap between open source software and proprietary software
Understanding of cost benefit accrued while deploying such solutions