Correos is the operator of the public postal service in Spain. Recently, it decided to build a secure email service for up to 140,000 mailboxes for citizens and businesses to send emails and attachments to government offices.

With the support of Sun Professional Services, Correos devised and implemented a fully redundant data storage and backup platform. A Sun Fire T2000 and a Sun Fire T1000 server, both featuring UltraSPARC T1 processor technology and running the Solaris 10 Operating System, work as load balancers at the front end.

Sun Fire V490 and Sun Fire V890 servers, running backup software, sit at the back end of the platform. Two Sun StorageTek 6540 arrays, one located at the organization’s main data center and the other at a disaster recovery site, store email data, which is archived to a Sun StorageTek SL500 modular library system.

To maximize availability, Sun Professional Services deployed Solaris Cluster software. This protects the integrity of application data and services across the cluster's nodes, which are divided between the main and disaster recovery site.

Correos also chose to be protected by a SunSpectrum Platinum support plan and Sun Remote Operations Management. This means a Sun engineer will start to resolve any issue within 15 minutes after the problem has been reported. Crucially, the APE service hasn’t suffered any downtime since it launched in October 2008.

Correos' new “Electronic Post Box” service, Apartado Postal Electrónico (APE), has proven to meet the reliability and scalability requirements the postal service was looking for. Currently with the Sun-based storage infrastructure, Correos is providing 5 MB worth of storage for its 140,000 mailboxes.

“APE and Sun technology are helping Correos meet the challenges of a transition from paper correspondence to Internet-based communication,” says Jose Marcelino Perez, e-business manager at Correos. "Because Sun’s technology and support services are supporting APE, we are reducing operating costs and optimizing our level of service."

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Sun Fire T2000 Server

Sun Fire T1000 Server

Sun Fire V890 Server

UltraSPARC T1 Processor

Sun StorageTek 6540 Array

Sun StorageTek SL500 Modular Library System

Solaris Cluster

Solaris 10 Operating System

Sun Remote Operations Management

Sun Professional Services

SunSpectrum Support [...read more...]

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