Partner helps University of Waterloo into a private cloud

The solution Alantex designed was centered around Microsoft System Center and also used blueprint architectures drawing on Alantex's partnerships with new servers from Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard and new storage from NetApp.
Partner helps University of Waterloo into a private cloud

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New Generation CISCO UCS M3 Servers Announced today, March 08, 2012.

The Cisco UCS C240 M3 Rack Server is designed for both performance and expandability over a wide range of storage-intensive infrastructure workloads, from big data to collaboration.

The latest expansion of the Cisco UCS portfolio includes the new Cisco UCS C240 M3 Rack Server (two rack units [2RU]) and Cisco UCS C220 M3 Rack Server (1RU) and the Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server. These three new servers increase compute density through more cores and cache balanced with more memory capacity and disk drives and faster I/O.

The Cisco UCS C240 M3 interfaces with Cisco UCS using another Cisco innovation, the Cisco UCS P81E Virtual Interface Card (VIC). The Cisco UCS P81E VIC is a virtualization-optimized Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) PCI Express (PCIe) 2.0 x8 10-Gbps adapter designed for use with Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers. The VIC is a dual-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe adapter that can support up to 18 PCIe standards-compliant virtual interfaces, which can be dynamically configured so that both their interface type (network interface card [NIC] or host bus adapter [HBA]) and identity (MAC address and worldwide name [WWN]) are established using just-in-time provisioning. In addition, the Cisco UCS P81E can support network interface virtualization and Cisco^® Data Center Virtual Machine Fabric Extender (VM-FEX) technology.

• Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server: The enterprise-class Cisco UCS B200 M3 server provides performance, versatility, and density in a half-blade form factor, delivering balanced, industry-leading density through its 24 DIMM slots and up to 80 gigabits of I/O bandwidth. Greater density, performance and bandwidth mean business applications can run faster, more cost-effectively, and more efficiently.
• UCS C220 M3 Rack Server: The Cisco UCS C220 M3 Rack Server is a one-rack-unit (1RU) server designed for performance and density for a wide range of business workloads, from Web services to distributed databases.
• UCS C240 M3 Rack Server: The Cisco UCS C240 M3 Rack Server is a two-rack-unit (2RU) server designed for both performance and expandability over a wide range of storage-intensive infrastructure workloads, from big data to collaboration.

More details: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/ps10265/ps10493/ps12370/data_sheet_c78-700629.html

Cisco UCS 3rd Generation products: Cisco UCS B200 M3 | Cisco UCS 220 M3 | Cisco UCS 240 M3

ALANTEX CORP. appointed as NetApp Silver Partner                        

Toronto, Ontario, Canada — November 28, 2011 - ALANTEX CORP., a rapidly growing Datacenter Optimization and Cloud Transformation company, has today announced that it has become a NetApp Silver Accredited Partner - adding innovative storage and data management to its portfolio of global services and solutions.

NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that boost IT efficiency and flexibility. NetApp's passion for simplicity, innovation, and customer success helps companies around the world go further, faster. With an efficient and flexible storage infrastructure, NetApp provides cost savings and improved business responsiveness.

This move provides ALANTEX with an enhanced ability to deliver virtualisation and storage services to its global client base. ALANTEX will now benefit from having access to NetApp’s complete product portfolio, with the added benefit of access to partner-specific tools, as well as training, sales and marketing programmes.

NetApp helps solve the most critical IT and business challenges, while maximising return on investment.
ALANTEX is pleased to enhance its storage and data management offering, bringing best of breed technology to its clients.

Acting as a complete solutions provider, ALANTEX professional services team with NASP and ASAP certified architects and consultants delivers the most advanced technology offerings in the field enabling their clients to operate and compete at their highest levels. With NetApp and CISCO validated architecture solutions ALANTEX’s clients are confident and pleased to deploy the recent datacenter architecture development in datacenter private cloud transformation, storage virtualization, and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) management.

About ALANTEX
ALANTEX CORP. is a Canadian Datacenter Cloud Computing and Management solutions provider based in Toronto that helps companies plan, architect, deploy and support their IT infrastructure specializing in datacenter optimization and cloud transformation for medium & large enterprises.

ALANTEX professional services organization provides companies with a wide range of offerings starting from Cloud Virtualization, IT Roadmap and Strategy Workshops. Our experienced consultants and architects will start from understanding of your challenges and needs to optimize your current Core Infrastructure and will guide you from assessment phase up to deployment and competitive migration from VMware to Hyper-V R2 Private Cloud. With Microsoft Hyper-V Private Cloud Deployment our clients will be able to utilize IT environment and resources more efficiently, with reduced support costs.

For further information please see www.alantexcorp.com

About NetApp

NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) creates innovative storage and data management solutions that accelerate business breakthroughs and achieve outstanding cost efficiency. Discover our passion for helping companies around the world go further, faster at www.netapp.com.