Rackspace Partners with Dovecot to Cut Down on Email Server Costs

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Rackspace Partners with Dovecot to Cut Down on Email Server Costs

Rackspace will adopt Dovecot Pro to power its email platform in an attempt to make its email servers substantially more efficient, and therefore less costly. Rackspace announced the shift along with Dovecot parent company Open-Xchange on Tuesday.

Rackspace technical director Dan Shain says the company is hoping to serve its 3.5 million end-users with one-fifth of the number of IMAP email servers. This would result in savings on the cost of electricity, cooling, and maintaining hardware. Shain also says the change will improve the scalability and reliability of Rackspace’s email service, and can be implemented without any service disruption.

“Rackspace is an extremely valued and long standing member of the Dovecot open source community, working with us to constantly improve Dovecot’s IMAP server offering for the benefit of end-users across the globe,” said Timo Sirainen, chief architect and co-founder, Dovecot. “Large email providers are under constant pressure to reliably grow their storage capacity at an affordable price for both themselves and their end-users. By partnering with Dovecot, Rackspace, famous for its fanatical customer support, has tackled this challenge head on.”

Dovecot was merged into Open-Xchange in March 2015, and Rackspace has long been an active member of Dovecot’s open-source community. In addition to Dovecot’s email backend and fully stateless design, Rackspace will gain Dovecot Pro’s Object Storage Plugin, with its scalable storage from Scality. Dovecot also reduces the storage capacity needed for full text indexes by 50 percent over other open source full text indexes, the companies said.

This year’s Open Email Survey showed Dovecot has cornered over two-thirds (68.5 percent) of the IMAP server market.

Open-Xchange also expanded its infrastructure services by merging with PowerDNS on the heels of the Dovecot merger last year.

Rackspace has also struck several deals this year to boost its OpenStack cloud, including most recently with cloud optimization startup AppFormix.

Source: TheWHIR