David Gillam

David Gillam – Independent Messaging Infrastructure Consultant David has over 20 years experience in various messaging environments, and has successfully architected both small and large messaging infrastructures. David understands the mission critical nature of email to today’s businesses, and designs security, fault tolerance and redundancy into every architecture. At a large US defense contractor with a worldwide presence, David and his team implemented a series of changes to increase availability, disaster resistance, and filtering effectiveness (from ~50% to 99.98%). David was able to accomplish this with no noticeable downtime for the email service. Most recently, David and his team replaced the entire email infrastructure of this same defense contractor with the Sentrion messaging platform (across 4 time zones) in a way that was transparent to all customers. The results are 35% savings in power/cooling, 50% savings in rack space, a 60% increase in email capacity, and a filtering cost benefit of approximately $10/user per month. Each business has a unique mix of priorities and concerns which David incorporates into his proposals.