Microdata, the corporate value-added division of First Technology Holdings, has been first to complete the local installation of IBM`s Netfinity 7000 M10 servers. The latest addition to IBM`s range of servers was installed at the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) and will run mission critical database information for Bank Supervision and Bank Finance, two key areas within the bank.
Francois Greyvenstein, server manager at the SARB, explains their choice of IBM Netfinity servers for all Intel based applications: "The SARB has a long history with IBM servers and has maintained the standards based on the performance of the servers through the years. The low downtime as well as aggressive pricing with the latest technology has put the IBM servers ahead of the competition."
Says Dion Visagie, account manager, at Microdata: "The Netfinity 7000 M10 server incorporates the latest features in terms of power, scalability and redundancy, which, with the superb after sales support offered by IBM makes for an industry leading offering.
"The Netfinity 7000 M10 delivers record-shattering performance with the IBM system architecture and Intel`s new 400 MHz Pentium II Xeon processor.
"Four-way SMP, up to 1 MB L2 cache, the combination of PCI adapter slots, 64-bit PCI, 8-way interleaved ECC EDO memory, and 10 000 rpm disk drives beef up the power of the subsystem. "The result is a taut balanced system with a hunger for speed."
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Microdata is the corporate value-added division of First Technology Holdings (Pty) Ltd with a focus on business benefits and offering end to end solutions including an information technology (IT) call centre; full outsource of the IT function; insourced systems engineers; proactive service level agreements; and networking design, implementation and management. Microdata conducts its business through several branches nationwide and has been accredited by Microsoft, Novell, Cisco, 3Com, IBM, Compaq, Citrix and other leading technology companies.
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