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Challenge:
FleetBoston Financial operates in one of the most competitive and rapidly evolving industries on the planet: financial services. In an effort to win and retain loyal customers, the firm has aggressively pursued online initiatives-including an innovative fileTRUST* online secure deposit box service. The challenge: rapidly launching and scaling a data storage service that is protected, flexible, and user friendly.
Solution:
Fleet built its protected service around the Microsoft* Exchange environment, taking advantage of the software's ready-made ability to store both data and metadata. To meet the project's stringent performance, reliability, and scaling demands, the company deployed servers based on Intel® Pentium® III Xeon" and Pentium® III processors.
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Exchange servers:
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Two Compaq* ProLiant* 6400R servers with dual Intel® Pentium® III Xeon" processors
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SQL servers:
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Two Compaq ProLiant 6400R servers
with dual Intel® Pentium® III Xeon processors
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Web servers:
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Three Compaq* ProLiant* DL380R servers with dual Intel® Pentium® III processors
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Active Directory* servers:
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Two Compaq ProLiant DL380R servers with dual Intel® Pentium® III processors
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SMTP servers:
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Two Compaq ProLiant DL380R servers with dual Intel Pentium III processors
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Management servers:
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One Compaq ProLiant DL380R server with dual Intel Pentium III processors
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Operating system:
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Microsoft* Windows* 2000
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Application software:
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Microsoft* Exchange 2000 Server, Microsoft* Internet Information Services 5.0, Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Microsoft* SQL Server* 7.0, Microsoft* Visual Studio* 6.0
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Storage area network:
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EMC* Symmetrix* 3930 Enterprise Information Storage System
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e-Business service provider:
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Plural, Inc.
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