Computer Architechs has added IBM Lotus Foundations Start Server to its portfolio of services and technologies. Lotus Foundations is an all-in-one-IT-solution targeted to businesses with 5-500 employees. The whole purpose of this new IBM solution is to literally “drop in” a software appliance that provides all of the essential components that a small to medium business would need, install and set it up in less than 30 minutes, and then leave the server appliance to self-manage, self-configure, and self-heal while you (the SMB customer) focus on your business.
What makes the Lotus Foundations software appliance so innovative is its ease of administration, stability, and reliability, something that SMBs are not accustomed to when dealing with their own internal IT infrastructure. No more hassles trying to figure out how to get regular, reliable backups. No need to keep calling your “IT guy” to come in to fix a problem that you can now do yourself with a few point and clicks. No longer do you have to buy extra hardware to host your email and website, provide remote connectivity to your employees on the road, or provide automatic failover when one of your Internet connections fails.
Lotus Foundations Start Server’s software provides all of the following in a tightly knit package of tools:
- Disaster Recovery Encrypted Backups
- Enterprise Grade Email
- Intra-company calendar and contact sharing
- File and Printer Sharing
- Remote Connectivity (Virtual Private Network – VPN)
- Firewall
- Anti-virus (to the server)
- Anti-spam (to the server)
- Windows interoperability
- Website Hosting
- Office Compatibility (to the desktop) with Lotus Symphony
- Automated System Updates
- Automatic failover when connected to 2 Internet connections
- Software RAID1 or RAID5
If you also decide to marry the Lotus Foundations Start software with IBM’s xSeries server hardware specific to IBM Lotus Foundations, then you also get an additional list of benefits besides the very highly reliable IBM server hardware:
- LCD display /control panel for easy setup and maintenance
- Hot swappable Intelligent Disk Backup (idb) drive
- Preloaded Disk-On-Module Flash Drive with Lotus Foundations platform
Here are some links to additional information about the server appliance
http://www.lotusfoundations.com/
https://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/foundations/start/
If you’re interested in providing this all-in-one-IT-solution for your business, please give us a call. We’ll give you a live demo of the server appliance and make sure that it is a fit for your business.
So go ahead. Start focusing on your business and leave the IT management to IBM Lotus Foundations Server Start.