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Information Library

This section of the site aims to bring you a selection of reference material relating to the solutions and services provided by Abtech Computer Services UK. All of the following documents are available for download as compressed zip files in order to keep file sizes to a minimum.

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Blade Servers:

Linux based HP BladeSystem solutions provide advantages for almost every industry across all areas of the technology infrastructure. This guide will demonstrate that the combination of Linux solutions on HP BladeSystem can provide a more flexible, efficient foundation for a wide variety of IT services. Linux on Blades Solution Guide  Zipped PDF Document (174k)
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The growing power and cooling problem In the past, more data center performance was the goal. Power and cooling costs were just the price you paid for it. As energy costs skyrocket, processor and memory technologies have made performance the abundant resource, while power and cooling are at a premium. As server density rises, so do power requirements. As power increases, so does heat output, and already, the inability to power and cool data centers effectively is preventing many companies from achieving their IT goals. HP Blade Power and Cooling Management  Zipped PDF Document (863k)
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What if wire-once was more than just a buzzword? What if you really could provision once– coordinate with LAN and SAN administrators once? If for every new server you added, the infrastructure was ready to go when you plugged it in and powered it up? If you could take the profile or personality of a LAN or SAN connection and just send it over to another server? What if all of your connections were, well, virtual? HP Virtual Connect Technology  Zipped PDF Document (691k)
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HP BladeSystem with Insight Control management is designed to deliver dramatic improvements in compute performance and to address many of the inefficiencies that contribute to inflated operational costs. By focusing on integration of server, storage, and networking infrastructure; automating key management functions; and delivering ground-breaking improvements in power and cooling efficiency; HP has delivered a compute infrastructure that is more time-smart, change-ready, energy-thrifty, and ultimately cost-savvy than traditional rack-mount and competitive blade server offerings. HP Insight Manager for Blades  Zipped PDF Document (1031k)
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Users need to access information continuously in order to perform their business roles. In order to meet this need, many organizations have taken a tactical, ad-hoc approach to information access, user-by-user, server-by-server, application-by-application. Over time, this has led to infrastructures which are difficult to support and manage, and can not change rapidly in order to meet business requirements. The HP BladeSystem and Citrix Access Suite partnership goes beyond solving server issues…it solves the infrastructure issue. Taking a strategic and systematic approach to the access infrastructure delivers better results for the business. Treating both information access and the access infrastructure as an integrated, strategic pairing enables business agility, where organizations can rapidly change the way and speed at which they conduct their business. All hardware and software components are modularized in a central location with built-in manageability that is accessible from any network connection. A centralized Citrix Access Infrastructure deployed on an HP SBC modular infrastructure using HP BladeSystem c-Class provides an efficient, agile and scalable foundation for strategically deploying information where it’s needed, when it’s needed. Deploying Citrix Solutions on HP C Class Blades  Zipped PDF Document (1371k)
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The HP BladeSystem Management Suite works in concert with Oracle Grid Control, providing centralized and simplified management of the entire environment. The cornerstone of BladeSystem management is HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM), providing everything from discovery and monitoring to configuration and provisioning—all from a single console. A vital component of HP SIM is the HP BladeSystem integrated management environment, which enables users quickly to navigate the entire BladeSystem infrastructure and conveniently configure, deploy, and manage individual or groups of BladeSystems in a grid environment. The HP BladeSystem integrated management environment also works seamlessly with HP ProLiant Essentials Value Packs, HP OpenView management software, and third-party plug-ins to HP SIM as part of an end-to-end enterprise management solution. Running Oracle Grid on HP C Class Blades  Zipped PDF Document (327k)
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With the arrival of the HP StorageWorks SB40c storage blade, HP introduces an all-new class of data storage for blade servers. This innovative storage offering delivers unmatched direct-attach storage density for HP BladeSystem c-Class server blades. Now you can add storage to your blade servers without the cost of a storage area network (SAN). Designed to keep pace with your increasing need for storage capacity, the SB40c provides a simple way to add additional drive capacity. It offers the reliability and flexibility of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) technology with the performance and manageability of an onboard HP Smart Array P400 controller. Available in a halfheight form factor, the storage blade supports up to six hot-plug small form factor (SFF) SAS or Serial ATA (SATA)hard disk drives. C Class Blade SB40c Storage Blade Data Sheet  Zipped PDF Document (71k)
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The new HP BladeSystem c7000 enclosure is the foundation of a new modular computing architecture that simplifies infrastructure, reduces operational cost and delivers IT services more effectively to your business. It consolidates the essential elements of a datacenter— power, cooling, management, connectivity, redundancy, security—into a modular, self-tuning unit wrapped with intelligence that is expandable with server, storage and interconnect modules to build a variety of solutions for any business. HP C7000 Blade Enclosure Data Sheet  Zipped PDF Document (184k)
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You reap the benefits: whatever the workload and operating system—whether it’s Windows, Linux or HP-UX; Enterprise or SMB—you get the best and broadest choice of verified, industry-standard, blade-based solutions. And through select channel partners the HP Solution Builder Program helps IT by delivering solutions that are preconfigured, tested and delivered to your location. Chances are you’ll experience dramatic opportunities to slash costs, increase efficiency, and improve your organization’s ability to adapt and grow quickly. Blade Solution Builder Program  Zipped PDF Document (134k)
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HP BladeSystem is built on a modular infrastructure that saves time and money on every front. Thanks to a consolidated design that can share more resources with fewer components, blade computing costs less than a traditional rack-solution. And built-in management that helps adminstrators do their jobs faster with fewer steps and less people also contributes to lower operational expenses over the long term. HP Blade Systems Brochure  Zipped PDF Document (702k)
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HP BladeSystem for Citrix enables your organization to create a Citrix environment that is dynamically scalable in response to changes in user demand, system loads or other measures. This innovative solution capitalizes on the reliability and affordability of HP BladeSystem servers and the power and flexibility of HP ProLiant Essentials software to enable an Adaptive Infrastructure. HP Blade Systems for Running Citrix  Zipped PDF Document (320k)
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HP BladeSystem for Citrix enables your organization to create a Citrix environment that is dynamically scalable in response to changes in user demand, system loads or other measures. This innovative solution capitalizes on the reliability and affordability of HP BladeSystem servers and the power and flexibility of HP ProLiant Essentials software to enable an Adaptive Infrastructure. HP Blades for Fast Growing Business  Zipped PDF Document (741k)
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Redesigned from the start to deliver a bold agenda for the future of blade computing, the new HP BladeSystem c-Class tackles the toughest problems facing today’s IT organisations – cost, time, energy and change. Plus, it includes flexibility, scalability and support for future technologies so it’s not only easier to create, change and manage, but also helps your business take full advantage of new things to come. HP Blade Systems C Class Infrastructure Out of the Box  Zipped PDF Document (479k)
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Cisco blade switch modules extend the benefits of the HP BladeSystem to Ethernet networking, increasing the value of the infrastructure investment. Multiple Cisco blade switch modules fit into the HP BladeSystem enclosure to connect all servers while taking advantage of the improved efficiency, lower cost and greater flexibility of the HP blade enclosure design HP Blade and Cisco Interconnects  Zipped PDF Document (2994k)
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In developing HP Thermal Logic, we expanded our view of power and cooling beyond the system or rack level to the whole data center. Every element in the data center has an effect on all the other elements, so forcing an entire blade enclosure to run at max cooling capacity just because of one high-powered blade affects airflow in the adjacent racks and rows as well as wasting power. By using a multizone architecture and multiple sensors in each enclosure, HP BladeSystem distributes power and cooling control through areas of widely varying power densities. Compared to the fans of traditional servers, HP Thermal Logic technology requires 50 percent less airflow and 70 percent less power to cool the same number of server blades. HP Thermal Logic for Data Centre Power and Cooling  Zipped PDF Document (843k)
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For organizations that are weighing the choice between deploying a large number of servers, total cost of ownership (TCO) analyses favor blade server systems over rack-optimized server systems for reductions in both capital and operating expenses. Blade server systems are all about exploiting the economies of scale when deploying servers in volume. Forecasting the Total Cost of Ownership of Blade Servers   Zipped PDF Document (152k)
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The Arizona Supreme Court makes extensive use of HP ProLiant Blade Servers, a solution that conserves valuable data center space and promotes server consolidation. “The Court is housed in a beautiful, majestic building, but its architects had no idea we’d be doing statewide automation when they built it. The data center was designed to support the Supreme Court. Now we provide operations for 150 courts in 14 of the 15 Arizona counties out of this building.” —Karl Heckart, CIO for the Arizona Judicial Branch Arizona Court Blade Case Study  Zipped PDF Document (123k)
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Content Management

As a result of meeting all the criteria, the committee decided to deploy the Xythos Enterprise Document Manager in a pilot program, opening that program to ~1,200 students, faculty and staff from across all departments. Over the next six months feedback was solicited on a regular basis.As a result of the pilot, UIUC confirmed that the Xythos service was useable and relevant, the infrastructure sufficient to meet its needs and identified the budget and staffing requirements that the university would require. A project plan and request for proposal were initiated – and Xythos was formally selected as most compliant with the stated requirements. Xythos Case Study - University of Illinois  Zipped PDF Document (158k)
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The University is defining the next generation of individual academic computing support by implementing a bold, strategic initiative called 'Northeastern On Demand', which propelled them to win the 2005 CIO Bold 100 award.When fully deployed to its campus community, 50,000 users will be able to access key desktop applications and file storage as easy-to-use web services, available anytime, anywhere in the world. Northeastern believes that as they enable students and faculty to perform their work and collaborate more effectively, the university will reach its goal of becoming a Top 100 research institution. Xythos Case Study - North Eastern University  Zipped PDF Document (400k)
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Executive Summary This white paper will explore the recently defined Basic Content Services market, its market drivers, and how it differs from traditional Enterprise Content Management (ECM) applications. In recent years, the limitations of email and other desktop tools for sharing and managing content have been exposed by the proliferation of department servers and file shares, the loss of valuable data, decreased worker productivity and even costly lawsuits. As a result, organizations are now seeking more effective and less costly methods to manage content, simplify internal and external collaboration and better prepare themselves for an era of increased information regulation. Xythos Basic Content Management White Paper  Zipped PDF Document (309k)
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Executive Summary: This white paper will explore the recently defined Basic Content Services market, its market drivers, and how it differs from traditional Enterprise Content Management (ECM) applications. In recent years, the limitations of email and other desktop tools for sharing and managing content have been exposed by the proliferation of department servers and file shares, the loss of valuable data, decreased worker productivity and even costly lawsuits. As a result, organizations are now seeking more effective and less costly methods to manage content, simplify internal and external collaboration and better prepare themselves for an era of increased information regulation. Xythos Corporate Brochure  Zipped PDF Document (296k)
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Xythos believes content is key to the widespread adoption and usefulness of any portal, and content management a critical success factor. By integrating collaborative file sharing and easy-to-use, document management functionality within the portal, employees have a compelling reason to use the portal on a daily basis. Other applications within the portal will also become more frequented as the portal becomes the single destination for employee’s jobs. Xythos For Academic Portals   Zipped PDF Document (367k)
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Healthcare providers, pharmaceutical companies and medical researchers are all seeking easier ways to accelerate business processes while improving their ability to securely manage information in response to increasing regulations. Until recently, these organizations have had to acquire complex and expensive document management systems or endure lengthy custom design projects because these were the only solutions capable of addressing their diverse information management requirements. Today, the advent of Internet standards governing information exchange and security provides a new opportunity to safely and easily integrate content management and collaborative functionality directly within the existing applications and processes of life sciences organizations. Xythos’ solutions, including the Enterprise Document Management Suite and WebFile Development Suite, are designed using open standards-based technology for this purpose. A growing variety of life sciences organizations now depend upon Xythos to protect medical information while making it more easy to access and share across public networks. Xythos Basic Content Management for Life Sciences  Zipped PDF Document (104k)
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Xythos Digital Locker now serves the needs of hundreds of thousands of academic and administrative users at many of the most prestigious schools around the world. In addition to helping faculty and students share content on campus, Xythos has become the solution of choice for safely collaborating between institutions, and is helping to support a wide variety of research projects between academic, commercial and government organizations. Xythos Digital Locker Suite Brochure  Zipped PDF Document (1076k)
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Information Library




Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux–based Oracle applications and HP’s industry-standard servers simply work better together. In fact, HP was the first vendor to certify a platform for Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) on Linux and has offered a continuous roadmap of proven offerings ever since. HP Oracle Cluster Solutions on Linux Zipped PDF Document (1.4MB)
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Red Hat is the world’s leading supplier of commercial-strength Linux solutions. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux family, including Red Hat Desktop, provides the industry’s most comprehensive suite of Linux solutions designed expressly for mission-critical enterprise computing and certified by top enterprise software vendors. It delivers the highest levels of reliability and value— coupling the innovation of open source technology and the stability of a true enterprise-class platform. Red Hat Enterprise Overview Zipped PDF Document (166k)
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Red Hat Network is a systems management platform that makes Linux deployable, scalable, and manageable. It provides lower total cost of ownership (TCO) through complete lifecycle management, letting you increase the number of systems in your environment without adding additional administration resources. Red Hat Network allows you to have a more consistent environment. With Red Hat Network, you can instantly see the status of your systems to know if any are missing an important patch or configuration change. Not only does this improve security, but you can also now easily measure and report on the patch level of systems in your company. Red Hat Network Enterprise Systems Management  Zipped PDF Document (125k)
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Red Hat Global File System (GFS) is an open source, POSIX-compliant cluster file system and volume manager that executes on Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers attached to a storage area network (SAN). It works on all major server and storage platforms supported by Red Hat. The leading (and first) cluster file system for Linux, Red Hat GFS has the most complete feature set, widest industry adoption, broadest application support, and best price/ performance of any Linux cluster file system today. Red Hat Global File System Overview  Zipped PDF Document (140k)
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Red Hat Directory Server, formerly known as Netscape Directory Server, is an LDAP server that simplifies user management. Providing a centralized data store for all user, application, and network information, Directory Server simplifies the management and increases security across enterprise or extranet applications. Red Hat Directory Server Overview  Zipped PDF Document (93k)
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This white paper provides a technical overview of the Red Hat Cluster Suite layered product. The paper describes several of the software technologies used to provide high availability and provides outline hardware configurations. The paper is suitable for people who have a general understanding of clustering technologies, such as those found in Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server and Sun Cluster products. Delivering High Availability Solutions with Red Hat Cluster Suite  Zipped PDF Document (173k)
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Oracle 9i RAC is a scalable, highly-available, clustered database that runs efficiently on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and low-cost servers and storage. In December 2003, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Oracle RAC set the world record for the TPC-C benchmark, achieving over 1 million transactions per minute on a shared storage cluster of 16 industry servers. Users are scaling Oracle databases without incurring the equipment or support costs of large SMP servers. Oracle 9i RAC and the Red Hat Global File System  Zipped PDF Document (126k)
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This IDC White Paper discusses the growing need for Linux system management and describes the solutions offered by Red Hat Network. The role of Red Hat as a distributor of Linux software is presented. The specific Linux system management functions provided by Red Hat Network are described, along with alternative forms of delivery, including hosted support as a service and deployment of management software at customer sites on Satellite servers. Several case study examples of user experiences with Red Hat Network support are provided. Managing Linux in the Enterprise: The Red Hat Network Approach  Zipped PDF Document (180k)
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Data sharing clusters are server farms based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux that share storage devices on a storage area network (SAN), and share data on those storage devices through Red Hat Global File System (GFS), a cluster file system for Linux. In a data sharing cluster, data can be written or read by any server, to or from any file in GFS. As shown in Figure 1, this approach contrasts with the traditional server farms that use only local, direct-attached storage. Data Sharing Clusters for Web Serving and Grid Computing  Zipped PDF Document (185k)
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Red Hat Network Satellite 5.0.0 Beta is a technology preview of Red Hat Network Satellite's virtual platform management capabilities. This guide will help you make the most of your participation in the Satellite Beta program, guiding you step by step through setting up your Satellite and virtual host systems as well as creating and managing virtual guest systems with Satellite. Red Hat Network Satellite Server 5.0.0 beta Step by step  Zipped PDF Document (754k)
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Redundancy and the Red Hat Satellite Server  Zipped PDF Document (379k)
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This document will help you create two identical Red Hat® Network (RHN) Satellites functioning in failover mode. Both of these RHN Satellites will connect to their own external Oracle® database. Failover and the Red Hat Satellite Server  Zipped PDF Document (373k)
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RHN Satellite provides system management with a high degree of control and flexibility since the entire RHN solution is located on your network. To help you get the most out of your specific environment, Red Hat has created the RHN Satellite Implementation service to assist you with installation, configuration, and training for Red Hat Network Satellite Server. Satellite Server Implementation Data Sheet   Zipped PDF Document (86k)
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Storage

Today’s business climate requires that you do more with less, are available 24/7 and have all relevant information available at the click of a button. To be able to respond to the demands of your business, you need IT processes that manage costs, mitigate risk, increase quality of service and enable enterprise agility. HP takes a horizontal, integrated approach to designing, implementing, measuring, monitoring and operating business processes. This approach provides you simplicity without compromise, change without chaos and growth without limits. The HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) family of products provides the power and simplicity that you need to respond to the more demanding and changing needs of your users, customers and applications. HP EVA Product Brochure  Zipped PDF Document (1061k)
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HP StorageWorks Command View EVA is a comprehensive software suite designed to simplify, enhance and maximize the high performance HP StorageWorks EVA family of storage array products. It provides a powerfully simple storage management experience when compared to traditional storage array management approaches. Think of HP StorageWorks Command View EVA as providing simplicity without compromise as it complements the HP StorageWorks EVA user. It offers storage administrators a single storage management solution for all of your EVA management needs. It automates and aggregates storage management so you have fewer steps to think about and fewer things to manage. HP EVA Software Data Sheet  Zipped PDF Document (217k)
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Built on industry standards to ensure compatibility, ease of use and affordability, this advanced family of products and services allows you to deploy reliable solutions today, while enabling future growth and change. The MSA family is comprised of five modular array systems and two packaged clusters as outlined below. Their scalability, versatility and reliability enable them to integrate seamlessly into any environment. HP MSA Disk Array Family Brochure  Zipped PDF Document (1210k)
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Research shows that more than 50 percent of companies that experience major data loss will ultimately go out of business, meaning that protecting your data is really about protecting your business. Learn how HP and Microsoft have teamed up to reduce your risk and lower your IT costs while improving the service you provide to end users. HP MS Data Protection Manager Storage Servers  Zipped PDF Document (878k)
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HP ProLiant Storage Server products include both tower and rack-mount form factors to fit a variety of IT environments. Tower-based storage servers range from the affordable, entry-level HP ProLiant ML110 G2 Storage Server to the mid-range ProLiant ML350 G4 and ML370 G4 Storage Servers. Rack-mount storage servers include HP ProLiant DL100 Storage Server SATA-based solutions, mid-range HP ProLiant DL380 G4 Storage Server SCSI or SATA-attached solutions, enterprise HP ProLiant DL380 G4 Storage Server (SAN storage model) and enterprise HP ProLiant DL585 Storage Server NAS/SAN fusion solution HP Proliant NAS Storage Server Family  Zipped PDF Document (1509k)
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HP StorageWorks File Migration Agent Software (FMA) is an automated solution designed to help simplify Windows-based file, web, and application server administration in small business to enterprise environments. Managing Windows Based Storage with HP FMA
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VERITAS Storage ExecTM helps organizations manage and control rampant storage growth. With Storage Exec, organizations can reclaim up to 30% of wasted storage space and reduce future growth. Not only does this maximize use of storage resources, but it also leads to faster, more efficient backups and improved server performance. Storage Exec Data Sheet  Zipped PDF Document (78k)
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Scalix Email

This evaluation guide provides a guided tour of Scalix 10.0. It includes instructions to help you install and configure an evaluation version of Scalix 10.0 Enterprise Edition and evaluate the many features and benefits of Scalix. The guide also provides a checklist for evaluating email and calendaring systems. Scalix 10 Evaluation Guide  Zipped PDF Document (495k)
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The Scalix Appliance delivers advanced messaging and collaboration functionality in a turnkey hardware/software solution. Plug-n-play, ease-of-administration, “mail-tone” reliability (99.99% uptime) and rich functionality make deploying an enterprise-wide email and collaboration system easier than ever before. Just plug in the Scalix Appliance and answer a few questions. Configuration and setup are automated, eliminating the need for an experienced administrator. The appliance leverages carrier grade features to enhance email availability. Scalix Appliance Kit Datasheet  Zipped PDF Document (111k)
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