TitanHQ is performing a major update of the ArcTitan email archiving solution. That process is now well underway and existing ArcTitan users are being migrated to the new systems and will greatly benefit from the new and improved service.
The new and improved ArcTitan service is being delivered as a high availability, self-healing, horizontally scaled Kubernetes cluster. The new ArcTitan service uses a high availability Percona XtraDB MySQL database cluster within Kubernetes that handles all database operations. It is self-maintaining and can be scaled up with minimal user effort and no downtime.
The Kubernetes cluster has many components that work in harmony, with each of the components configured to be independently accessible to ensure availability and improve the reliability of the service. Since each component is independently available, in the event of one component going down, the remaining components will still be available. That means there will be minimal or no service outage, instead the single component will be taken offline and repaired without any effect on the others.
As is the case with the old ArcTitan service, all emails are given unique identifiers that are kept for the life of the archive. Emails are fully indexed, and the header, sender/receiver, body, and email attachments are all indexed separately. If historic emails need to be recovered, the indexing ensures millions of archived email messages can be searched and found in seconds.
The new ArcTitan systems encrypt and store raw email data in Replicated Persistent Storage. Ceph storage clusters are deployed which provide high performance block storage and file systems, with automated data replication and fail over. For long term storage of email data, ArcTitan uses Amazon S3 to ensure reliability, redundancy, and scalability. ArcTitan indices are distributed across several Apache SoIr instances simultaneously.
ArcTitan customers will also benefit from a new graphical user interface (GUR) as shown in the image below:
TitanHQ is contacting all current ArcTitan users and is providing new account details that will need to be used to benefit from the new ArcTitan infrastructure. Applying the changes will require reconfiguration of the connector/mail server. Once that change has been applied, all mail will be directed to the new server for archiving.
Once TitanHQ has verified that the change has been made correctly, and all mail is being successfully sent to the archive on the new infrastructure, the original account will be closed off and will no longer accept emails. All emails from the old account will be migrated to the new infrastructure by TitanHQ and customers will be notified when that process has been completed. They will then have the chance to verify the migration has been completed. Once verified, the old account will then be deleted.
In the meantime, any emails stored using the previous account can still be searched and the archive will remain accessible if historical email needs to be accessed.
We are sure you will be happy with the changes and improved performance and reliability. If you have any questions about the new ArcTitan systems or your migration, our customer service team will be happy to help.