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Planning to upgrade your server in 2012?
BCNI.ca is your Oakville source for quality equipment, installation and on-going support services.
Please call 905-825-9404 or e-mail sales@bcni.ca for more information
February 2012 IBM small business server promotion
New IBM X series Xeon processor server including Windows Server 2008! $1800.00* complete with the following:
IBM.Server System x3200 M3
Intel Xeon Quad-Core 2.53 GHz 8 MB L3 Cache
RAM 2 GB
3 x 300Gb mirrored hard drives
Gigabit LAN
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition License
On-site installation available
*while supplies last, taxes and installation extra
Server 2008 alone is valued at $800. – this is an exceptional value for an Intel Xeon processor server.
Disaster Recovery
In the past, small and medium sized businesses have relied on tape based backup systems to backup and restore their critical data. In our experience, managing and ensuring successful backups is an overwhelming task for most administrators.
BCNI now recommends Sonicwall CDP to replace tape backups. CDP (continuous data protection) is a real time hard disk based system that backs up data on an ongoing basis. CDP is more reliable, easy to work with and less expensive to maintain compared to tape systems.
The Sonicwall CDP is a self contained appliance that plugs directly into your network. Backing up servers and workstations is simply a matter of loading the agent software on each machine you wish to backup, Backups happen in real time, meaning that as you create and save files they are automatically backed up to the CDP appliance. Restoring files is a simple matter of point and click in the management software. The CDP also keeps previous file versions available for restore.
In addition to file based backup the CDP also offers an option to create a point-in-time snapshot. This is particularly useful for MS Exchange or MS SQL servers. Restoring from a disk based system also provides the benefit of cutting the restore time down to just minutes rather than hours in the case of tape systems.
CDP also has an excellent system for moving data to an off-site location. If your company has a branch office data can be moved across the internet, again in real time to a second CDP device. Alternatively managed services based on data being stored are offered by service providers including BCNI Oakville.
BCNI Oakville is an authorized Sonicwall gold partner
Sonicwall CDP 210 with 2 Terabytes of storage starting from $1290.
Please contact our sales department for more information sales@bcni.ca or 905 825-9404
Microsoft Small Business Server 2011
Microsoft has announced the final names and pricing for its upcoming Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2011 editions. The three products will be available through all current Microsoft server licensing channels.
Codename Aurora will be known as Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials. Priced at $545, it is slated for release in the first half of 2011. Windows SBS 2011 Essentials is targeted at small businesses that want to deploy their first server. It protects your data, lets you organize and access business information from virtually anywhere, supports business applications, and connects to online services such as Office 365, hosted e-mail, collaboration, and CRM. It can be used by up to 25 users and requires no CALs for user access.
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