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Joshua Liberman provided the largest intellectual property law firm in New Mexico with a custom-built Intel Modular server that led to a whopping 600 percent increase in performance for lawyers searching their Microsoft Exchange mailboxes.
Bill Hole upgraded a 15-employee CPA firm in Westlake Village, Calif. with a Windows 7 upgrade solution that led immediately to a 20 percent increase in performance for accountants crunching numbers and facing intense deadlines.
Liberman and Hole are the first two winners in small business distribution power D&H Distributing's "Share Your SMB Success Stories" project. The contest is aimed at showcasing the technology prowess of D&H's VARs.
Liberman, president of Net Sciences, a 15-year-old system builder based in Albuquerque, N.M., installed the innovative Intel Modular Server in June for Peacock Myers, P.C., a 40-employee firm in Albuquerque.
Hole, the owner of The Hole Group in Simi Valley, Calif., implemented the Windows XP to Windows 7 upgrade for Tignino & Lutz LLP of Westlake Village, Calif. in May just after the tax-filing deadline.
Liberman has succeeded in the intensely competitive hardware market by offering his customers highly tailored custom solutions like the innovative Intel Modular Server, which combines blade style servers, true SAN storage, highly redundant power and remote management capabilities in a single 6U box, trumping offerings from major server makers like HP and IBM.
Liberman estimates that recreating the capabilities of the $21,000 system he put together for Peacock Myers would have cost as much as $35,000 from one of the major servers makers. And a system bought from a major vendor would not have the combined server/SAN/redundancy and remote management capabilities of the Intel Modular Server, and would be far harder to manage in the long run.
The Intel Modular Server has sharply cut downtime for the law firm; no small matter for a firm that values uptime at $50,000 or more per day. The IMS at Peacock Myers features three compute modules, and four CPUs, ten 2.5” SAN drives, redundant power, storage controllers and Gig LAN switching, yet still draws only 300W typically. This represents at 75 percent savings over their old system.
Net Sciences worked w/D&H to design the new system, with one compute module dedicated to Windows 2008 Small Business Server (including Exchange 2007), a second module running legal applications and a third running their Blackberry Enterprise Server. Net Sciences also installed dual SonicWALL NSA 3500 Firewall/UTM appliances for unified threat management and redundancy, and the SSLVPN 2000 for clientless remote connectivity. SonicWALL Email Security hardware provides the anti-spam, allowing users to locate blocked messages through a simple, intuitive interface.
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