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One of those is Webmail.us, a Blacksburg, Va.-based provider of hosted e-mail. The company, which was acquired by RackSpace in October, hosts and manages customer mailboxes with its own NoteWorthy e-mail system, said CTO Bill Boebel.
Webmail.us currently hosts about 700,000 mailboxes for about 80,000 businesses and a handful of end users, and offers them a complete service including such functions as collaboration, shared calendars, and shared task lists.
NoteWorthy is running on about 400 Linux-based servers, which also serve as the primary storage for the e-mail boxes. E-mail data is encrypted and mirrored internally, and then backed up to Amazon S3's infrastructure once a day, Boebel said.
Webmail.us has two data centers, and plans call for them to be able to mirror the e-mail data between them for added protection, Boebel said.
Webmail.us also manages RackSpace's Microsoft Exchange e-mail infrastructure, which is protected using a separate storage infrastructure. Eventually it, too, could be interfaced with Amazon S3, Boebel said. "We'd like to," he said. "But we have other priorities to integrate. Now we're focused more on integrating the front end. The back end integration is a lower priority. Right now it works."
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