1 December 2008

The Unisys servers will allow Alliance to consolidate and virtualise its server environment

New Zealand-based meat processor and exporter Alliance Group has become the first organisation in the world to install Unisys’s recently released ES7000 Model 7405R Enterprise Server.

Unisys is suppling and installing two ES7000 Model 7405R servers and two EMC CX3 Storage Area Networks, enabling Alliance to consolidate and virtualise its server environment. The new servers will be used to replicate the Microsoft applications hosted at Alliance’s production site to its disaster recovery site via EMC’s RecoverPoint, CX3 Storage and VMware software solutions. This will help create business continuity for the company’s Microsoft Windows and Novell Netware environments.

“The Unisys ES7000 Model 7405R servers will support mission-critical applications, including our email, file and printer servers, along with web servers that manage customer access to company information,” said Alliance CIO Kevin McCrone. “We anticipate that they will both boost our operational efficiency and enhance our ability to serve a growing number of clients more quickly. The installation has been very successful coming in on-time and under budget, underpinned largely by the proven and trusted relationship.”

Alliance is a farmer-owned co-operative based in New Zealand that operates nine processing centres nationally and exports to approximately 65 countries. The company produces high-quality meat products from lamb, sheep, cattle and deer, raised by its shareholders using free-range farming practices. It is also one of New Zealand’s largest exporters of wool, pelts, hides, casings, meal and tallow.

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