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Eaton UPS Uninterruptible power system in Canada (Powerware)
The Powerware Eaton Rackmount UPS is a high-density power quality and backup power protection solution ideal for servers, storage systems, network equipment and other critical devices.
Eaton has an UPS product line ranging from 500VA as well as award winning software with features such as predictive analysis, remote access and control, customized alerts, automatic sequential shutdown and more. Eaton UPSs ensure uptime for customers all over Canada and the USA.
The Eaton Powerware uninterruptible power system (UPS) delivers a genuine triple-play: the latest technology advances, a stylish and user-friendly design, and a budget-pleasing price. In fact, the Powerware products deliver more features at a price lower than its predecessor. This double-conversion online UPS resolves all nine of the most common utility power quality problems and supplies clean, continuous power to all connected equipment. The innovative design of this UPS delivers the industries best performance combination
Eaton Corporation announced the new Eaton 3S battery backup, a highly-efficient, reliable power protection and surge device that is integrated with Eatons award-winning Intelligent Power Protector software. The 3S systems are specifically designed to protect small office or home office (SOHO) equipment, personal computers (PCs), networked workstations, telephony equipment and home entertainment systems against damaging and costly power disturbances.
Affordable and energy-efficient, the feature-rich 3S includes EcoControl power outlets on its 750 VA model that can control shutdown of accessory devices to save up to 30 percent in energy consumption. The 3S provides surge protection for up to 10 devices, including five battery backup receptacles, as well as devices connected to data lines.
(Powerware) Eaton UPS Distributors in Ontario for UPS
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CASE STUDY for Virtual Machine from vmware.com website
Toronto-based Ryerson University is known for its career-focused approach to education. That means giving students and faculty the tools they need to pursue their varied fields of interest including an ever-growing number of computer applications. To keep up, we kept buying dozens of servers a year,” explains Eran Frank, the manager of the universityTechnical Support Group. Then in late 2006, we hit the wall at our two campus data centers. We just could not expand anymore. The university began virtualizing its servers in data centers with VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3) in early 2007. been doing my homework on virtualization, and when VI3 came out, I decided it was time to make the move,” he recalls. “It was mature and thoroughly tested in real companies. I felt confident I could stake my reputation on that rollout.”In the past year, Ryerson has virtualized most of its x86 (Intel) environment, which is predominantly Windows-based, but also includes an increasing number of Linux applications.
As a result, the hardware footprint at the university’s two data centers has shrunk by 90 percent—they now house 13 instead of 130 physical hosts—and IT costs have plummeted. Frank estimates that the university will save half a million Canadian dollars over three years, mostly because we won’t need to replace 200 Intel servers every three years he says. Best of all, in Franks view, is the fact his team can deliver those virtual platforms quickly. “What used to take 5 weeks now takes about 15 minutes, he says.
Some of the improvements from adding virtual machines may not be apparent to the university’s academics and students, but they make a huge difference behind the scenes—and to the IT staff. “When the motherboard failed on one of our blade servers, the virtual machines that were hosted there restarted automatically on other blades,” Frank says. “By the time I got the failure notice on my BlackBerry, the service was already restarted. It was beautiful: The downtime was around 40 seconds.”
Results of Virtual machine introduction
Mitel and VMware Announce First Customers to Leverage Voice Virtualization Virtual Solutions for VMware vSphere
OTTAWA, Ontario and PALO ALTO, California – February 16, 2010
Mitel®, the trusted provider of unified communications solutions, and VMware, the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter and to the cloud, today announced Virtual Mitel Communications Director(Virtual MCD), part of the new Mitel Virtual Solutions software portfolio as well as the first customers to deploy Virtual MCD.
- Virtual MCD is the first real-time voice application designed for the VMware vSphere™ 4 platform. As a virtual appliance,Virtual MCD is a software package download that runs on VMware vSphere 4, enabling customers to seamlessly access and install Mitel call control software.
- The solution leverages VMware vSphere 4 to enable customers to consolidate Mitel leading voice applications alongside non-voice business applications in the datacenter. This results in the potential for: capital savings due to the significant reduction in server hardware and real estate; operational savings with the reduction in power and server provisioning costs; as well as productivity improvements and resource efficiencies in datacenter management and risk mitigation for business continuity and disaster recovery plans.
- Mitel and VMware already have a number of joint customers that have deployed Virtual MCD including Gallagher, Flynn & Company LLP, an accounting firm based in the US; Ideal Integrations, a technology integrator based in the US; Spalding University, a university in Louisville, KY; and Ashford Borough Council in the UK. These customer sites consist of users ranging from 30 to more than 2,000.
- Virtual MCD is the latest application Mitel has introduced in the Mitel Virtual Solutions software portfolio. The next phase will include Mitel Applications Suite (MAS) and Mitel Border Gateway (MBG) as virtual appliances built using VMware Studio to be released 60 days after Virtual MCD.
- In addition to MCD, Mitel Unified Communicator(UC) Advanced, Mitel Contact Center Solutions and Mitel Enterprise Manager are VMware Ready™ applications. The VMware Ready Program is a VMware co-branding program for qualified partner products. VMware Ready products have passed a detailed evaluation and testing process and are ready for deployment in production environments. With the VMware Ready logo, customers can quickly identify VMware partner products and solutions that are optimized for the VMware platform.
- Solution is available in Mississauga, Toronto and the GTA , Ontario , Canada, Updated by : Martin Harm
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Nortel BCM 50
January 16,2011 : Business Communications Manager 50 is an all-in-one, affordable platform for converged voice and data communications for small to medium business with 3 to 20 stations, yet scalable to serve more than 40.
The Business Communications Manager 50 provides advanced capabilities such as robust telephony features, voice messaging and unified messaging, IP networking, Internet access, contact centers with skills-based routing, and IP telephony. With an easy-to-use and highly flexible architecture, the Business Communications Manager 50 enables small sites to benefit from convergence capabilities that were previously only available to much larger organizations.
The Business Communications Manager 50 comes pre-loaded with hundred of features. Nortel BCM50's full suite of applications can be activated by keycode. While your business and your needs grow, Ayava BCM50 will grow with you. Listed below are just some of the features available.
BCM50 Standard Features
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Calculating 95th Percentile Billing
Toronto , Ontario January 2, 2011
Bandwidth is measured from the switch or router and recorded in a log file. In most cases this is done every 5 minutes. At the end of the month, the samples are sorted from highest to lowest, and the top 5% (which equal to approximately 36 hours of a 30-day billing cycle) of data is thrown away. The next highest measurement becomes the 'billable utilization' for the month. With the 95th percentile billing method there is potential for paying for bandwidth that is not used. However, this method will also allow brief access to peak bandwidth when required. For example, if a website is Slashdotted for an entire weekend (48 hours) then billing would be based on a higher rate just because of that single weekend. Whereas if the peak is shorter (less than 36 hours), the peak would not appear on a usage bill for the month. In the 95th percentile billing method inbound and outbound traffic is usually calculated separately. The highest value is then used for billing rather than the sum.
VMware free hypervisor ESXi
VMware virtual machine made some headlines yesterday when its new CEO, Paul Maritz, announced during a financial analysts conference call that it would be giving its "embedded" (which, is to say, standalone) hypervisor away for free starting on July 28 2008
This move is wholly consistent with VMware's past strategy, so I don't view this as a new-found aggressiveness under Paul Maritz. If Paul mentioned Microsoft more frequently during the call than VMware founder and ex-CEO Diane Greene was wont to do, that reflects a different public emphasis rather than a change in direction. As anyone who has spoken to Diane in private can attest, she was never one to step gingerly around that particular ostensible partner.
And, in fact, we've seen essentially this same game plan previously. When Microsoft brought out Virtual Server at a price that undercut VMware's GSX server (its "hosted" hypervisor product), VMware then, too, cut the price of its competing product to free. I wrote at the time that:
Releasing VMware virtual Server as a free product is a brilliant move. With Xen still pre-production and Microsoft's Virtual Server 2005 just getting going, there is a window for VMware to insert itself as not only the best premium x86 virtualization product, but the best free/cheap one as well. By augmenting its hosted GSX Server product with SMP and x64 guests, renaming it VMware Server, and releasing it for free,just made life very difficult for Microsoft and likely even reduced the rate at which Xen will be deployed on Linux servers.
And, indeed, this is pretty much how things played out. Virtual Server found some uptake in Microsoft shops but has had limited impact on the broader market.
Today, the market for virtualization products is further along and Microsoft is assembling a broader virtualization strategy. That said, there are many similarities between then and now.
Hyper-V, Microsoft's native hypervisor, is still in its early days and, therefore, can't compete with VMware on function or maturity. It can compete on level of integration with Windows and it can compete on the basis of its $28 price, which Microsoft has been aggressively highlighting.
There's nothing that VMware can do directly about Hyper-V's integration with Windows--besides making the reasonable argument that this can be as much of a disadvantage as an advantage in an environment that blends Windows and other operating systems. But it can deal with the price point.
And it has. VMware has taken entry-level price off the table as an issue. It's also put into play a counter to Microsoft's "just comes with Windows" virtualization pitch with an alternative which, if not quite as integrated, is even cheaper.
The real price of a production virtualization deployment using either company's products is both higher and more complicated to figure, of course. There are management products, add-on software services to take advantage of virtualization, and hardware upgrades--to say nothing of possible training and services engagements. But, especially for midmarket customers focused on the up-front, kick-the-tires figure, FREE is a very attractive number for a virtual machine.
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VM4
Deliver rich, personalized virtual desktops as a managed service from a virtualization platform built to deliver the entire desktop, not just applications.
VMware View 4 allows you to consolidate virtual desktops on datacenter servers and manage operating systems, applications and data independently for greater business agility while providing a flexible high performance desktop experience for end users, over any network.
Deliver desktops as a service to reduce costs and gain better reliability, efficiency and security
Get ready for Windows 7 by virtualizing your desktops and applications now
Deliver desktops to remote and branch offices to accelerate provisioning while retaining control
vsphere
VMware vSphere is the next evolutionary step in IT computing; enabling customers to bring the power of cloud computing to their IT infrastructures.
Building on the power of VMware Infrastructure, VMware vSphere dramatically reduces capital and operating costs, and increases control over IT infrastructures while preserving the flexibility to choose any OS, application and hardware.
Maximize application throughput and operational efficiency
Increase control through service level automation
Empower IT departments with choice
February 6,2011