Johannesburg, 23 Feb 2005
MPF Management Services has installed a centralised application and backup solution, supplied by local infrastructure and solutions provider, Datacentrix.
MPF is a pension fund administrator, dealing with most aspects of administration and investment management in-house and needed a cost-effective solution in line with the company`s technology and applications strategies.
Guy Wentzel, Facilities and Technology Manager at MPF, says: "Our aim is to migrate our legacy applications and implement workflow and content management solutions to a more flexible, centralised Microsoft .Net environment. At the same time, we are committed to implementing a formal Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) approach.
Datacentrix offered MPF a solution specific to these requirements. The company purchased eight HP blade servers, two new tape libraries and VERITAS NetBackup software.
The HP ProLiant BL30ps blade servers are the first of their type to be installed in SA Africa. With the HP ProLiant BL30p, MPF can fit 16 side-by-side blades in a 10.5-inch space. The server comes with dual Intel Xeon processors and is designed for running application servers, e-commerce applications, computation clusters, grid computing and Web hosting.
"The migration from Natural Adabas applications to SQL server and .Net affords MPF the opportunity to create and manage a development and production environment for its member administration applications that is state of the art for the pension fund industry," says Grant Tyson, account manager: Infrastructure at Datacentrix.
"As one of HP`s few direct partners in SA, Datacentrix is able to buy products directly from HP and pass the cost savings on to customers."
Concludes Wentzel: "MPF has standardised on HP servers and desktops. The service we received from Datacentrix has been exceptional and we look forward to a long-term relationship with the company."
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