The CEO(?!?) at work wrote an email memo on the “pervasive recipient’s mailbox is full” failure message. It reminds me of around 5 years ago when I had a conversation with my boss on mail storage limits. And he asked why we are wrangling over mail storage limits when GMail can offer practically unlimited 4GB (at that time) mail storage capacity.
The answer back then is budgetary and technology constraints. We initially didn’t have the budget for the storage servers that can accommodate both the company’s file storage and mail storage requirements. The generally available hard drives back then tops off at 500GB. We eventually worked up our storage limits but it still fell short of GMail.
Today, the situation is different. The company is a big and well-funded multinational and storage technology has leapt. 1.5TB drives go for around P6,000 these days. GMail capacity is now 10GB. For 1000 users, that is just 10TB. Even if you factor in back-up and redundancy, even if you factor in the storage infrastructure, it still comes in relatively cheap. So how come mail storage limits are still so low? Maybe we should just use GMail.