Specific example of a recommended design that we have replicated in many midmarket companies in South Florida:

A health care facility hired us to Manage an IT project that required an upgrade of their core network servers from a single Novell file and print server with a remote Microsoft Exchange Email server to a highly available, fault tolerant Clustered environment. This design represented a fully functional replacement to the existing infrastructure. To include moving the core server network away from their current building space to newly independent headquarters in West Palm Beach. All systems throughout the upgrade process utilized the most current server hardware and software technologies with the primary focus on improving overall network performance and increasing the company's Return on Investment.

To accomplish a clean migration from the existing system, (7) Hewlett Packard Proliant ML380 Servers and the HP MSA1000 SAN storage system were utilized with Novell Netware 6.5, Zenworks 6.5, Microsoft Windows 2003 Enterprise Server, Exchange Enterprise Server 2003, SQL Server 2000 and Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server 3.0.

(6) HP ML380 Servers were connected to the HP MSA1000 via DualPath Fibre Channel host connections. Novell Netware 6.5 was clustered on (2) servers utilizing the "fan out" clustering technology for file and print resources. (2) HP ML380 Servers facilitated a Microsoft SQL Cluster with 1TB of Hard Drive Storage space - fault tolerant in the event any one server failure. (2) HP ML380 Servers were Active Directory Domain Controllers with Active/Passive Microsoft Clustering Service available for Exchange 2003 email clients. The remaining HP ML380 Server was configured with Citrix MetaFrame for remote access client connectivity.

Novell Netware 6.5 and Zenworks along with Microsoft Windows 2003 Active Directory integrated this company's user environment, streamlining the way administrators manage email distribution and file and print sharing. This highly available upgrade path improved latency and enhanced communications between clients and the server environment increasing the speed of user logon time, email retrieval, printing speeds and file transfers.