Case Study - NewsquestIn a media organisation, tight deadlines mean resilience of the email system is critical to the operation of the organisation. In choosing Mailtraq running on a clustered platform, Newsquest benefit from a solution which is cost-effective, standards-compliant and resilient.
Company Profile
Newsquest employ over 9000 staff, publishing over 300 regional and local newspapers. Its parent company Gannett employs approximately 51,500 staff. In the year to December 31, Gannett had a net income of $831 million on operating revenue of $6.3 billion.
Mailtraq Professional running on clustered hardware
Newsquest chose Mailtraq Professional, running on a clustered system, to provide email for over 2000 employees:
The hardware platform is based around two Dell PowerEdge 4600 Servers, each with dual PentiumIII Xeon 1800Mhz Processors and 3GB RAM, configured with Microsoft Cluster Service. Storage is provided by a Dell PowerVault 220S, with a 68GB partition being used for the mail server.
Users collect their email either via POP3 or, via the built-in WebMail system.
Mailtraq is only ever running on one of the machines in the cluster, with the second machine acting as a failover.
Hardware in detail:
2 x Dell PowerEdge 4600 Servers
Dual PentiumIII Xeon 1800Mhz Processors. 3GB ECC Ram Adaptec AHA-2940U2/U2W PCI SCSI Controller Adaptec AIC-7892 Ultra160/m PCI SCSI Card Dell Perc 3/DC & Perc 3/DCL RAID Controller Dell Perc 3/Di RAID Controller Dell PowerVault 110T DLT1/VS Tape Drive Dual Intel PRO/1000 XT Server Adapters Intel PRO/100 S Server Adapter RAID1 18GB Partition
Microsoft Cluster Service
3 x Virtual Machines:
Main Cluster Mail Server Web Server
Dell PowerVault 220S
8 x 33GB Ultra3 Drives
1 x RAID1 34GB Volume - 2GB Partition for Quorum - 32GB Partition for Resources 2 x RAID5 68GB Volumes - 68GB Partition for Mail Server - 68GB Partition for Web Server |