There’s a lot of buzz this week around Microsoft and HP’s release of “Exchange in a tin” the HP E5000. Looking at the link on the HP website reveals a lot more than the FUD and the rumours, of what it can and can’t do. The Microsoft press release is positioning this as a cloud appliance […]
I’m glad 32 bit is dying, I really am. 32 bit TCP stacks are a pain since they suffer from port exhaustion, 32 bit databases can only grow so large, and wile some of this article IS motivated by the joys of seeing how Exchange and other applications can scale in a 64 bit environment […]
So what’s large ? In My Mind a large mailbox is anything to impractical for an OST, so anywhere above the 2GB mark, depending on hardware. The slower the hard drive – the smaller the OST becomes. Microsoft published a new white paper Planning for Large Mailboxes with Exchange 2007, and it’s an interesting read. […]