Abtech Support Press Releases and Company Announcements
April 2010
Abtech Systems has teamed with IBM to offer IBM’s XIV line of high-end storage arrays. IBM's XIV family of storage arrays are built from industry-standard off-the-shelf hardware components, and include three different tiers of storage inside the box so customers can migrate data based on price and performance requirements. The IBM XIV Storage System was designed to handle today’s diverse mix of information – from traditional applications to Web 2.0 services as well as harness the high capacity and cost benefits of SATA drives. The solution employs a storage architecture that will provide Abtech customers with better more reliability and greater functionality, while offering improvements in ease of storage and exceptionally low total cost of ownership (TCO). Read the entire press release here.
March 2010
Abtech Support is now providing services to a government defense contractor who manufactures rocket engines. The services provided include remote system administration, consulting projects, hardware break/fix and software support on an HP-UX and MPE level for the entire production and disaster recovery environment. Abtech is supporting this organization at both their California and Virginia locations.
February 2010
Abtech Support provided relocation
services to an identity management software corporation. The relocation included
disconnection, unracking, packing, reracking and reconnection of the equipment.
After the move the customer sent the following email: “Just a quick note to
let you know what an amazing job Abtech did during our move. They worked
tirelessly to get our equipment moved and racked, saving us time and making sure
our business was able to come back online this morning. Their attention to
detail and professionalism was very much appreciated!”
January 2010
Abtech Systems was awarded a contract for the design and implementation of a virtual desktop solution for a San Diego medical group. The design consisted of multiple Dell PowerEdge servers and an IBM Disk Array which served up Windows 7 to twenty Panologic Zero Clients. The solution has an incredibly short ROI, with environmental savings, time required to roll out the desktop replacements, and reduced time required to administrate the devices.
December 2009
Abtech Systems designed and implemented an entire technology refresh for a large medical group in Nevada. The solution included Compaq Proliant ML350 G6 servers, Fujitsu laptops, HP desktop computers, Microsoft Office, APC UPS's, LTO backup drives, Symantec Backup Exec and Sonicwall firewalls and wireless access points. Abtech built and tested the solution in our lab, then shipped the items to the customer, where Abtech engineers did the final assembly.
November 2009
Abtech Systems was awarded a contract for multiple HP RP4440's and a storage array to a customer who is a leader in ophthalmic lens manufacturing. The systems were all configured with multiple CPU's, 8GB of RAM, and dual gigabit adapters. Abtech also was responsible for the MC ServiceGuard implementation.
October 2009
Abtech Systems provided a solution of twelve IBM X3650 M2's to a California based Advanced Analytics and data warehousing application developer. The venture capital based company is expanding at an incredible pace, and the servers will enable them to continue their growth.
September 2009
Abtech Systems closed a deal for PacketSentry Appliances with a global leader in location-based mobile application delivery. The four CPU Quad-core Xeon based appliances with embedded Oracle 10g Enterprise Edition will allow the customer to lower the cost of securing their environment with no impact to application availability or performance.
August 2009
Abtech Systems delivered multiple Brocade 7500 SAN Routers to a Northern California Community College District. The solution will provide an enterprise building block for consolidation and business continuity solutions, and will significantly reduce the management costs for their Storage Network.
July 2009
Abtech Systems closed a $500,000 sale of (90) Dual CPU, Quad Core Servers to a large defense contractor. The solution included multiple 10,000 RPM SAS drives, redundant power supplies, upgraded controllers and 64GB of RAM per server, in addition to VMware licenses.
June 2009
Abtech Support finalized a long term remote system and Oracle database administration contract for a large Sheriff’s department in California. This highly flexible contract gave the County’s IT department piece of mind and security that critical systems and Oracle databases would be monitored and administered daily, weekly, and monthly. Our service allowed this Sheriff’s department to cut costs significantly during the current economic climate.
May 2009
Abtech Support closed a long term business continuity contract with a Southern California College for their educational video on demand system. Abtech facilitated the collocation, high capacity bandwidth, and remote network administration for the institutions critical environment. Through replication and high level connectivity, users would not notice any difference in performance if the primary site was offline.
April 2009
Abtech Support closed a multi-year disaster recovery hosting project for a community college. The solution required asynchronous data replication, a multi-vendor Linux/HP-UX server environment, and an advanced virtualized storage area network. The equipment will be located at Abtech’s Disaster Recovery Center (DRC) and will be managed by our HP Certified System Administrators, CCNA’s, MCSE’s, and onsite hardware support specialists.
March 2009
Abtech Managed Services was chosen by a Southern California manufacturer of quartz countertop surfaces to provide Managed Services to all six locations in the United States. Abtech will be responsible for maintaining their computing infrastructure, including all desktops, servers, peripherals and networking equipment. Abtech monitors every item on the network 7 days a week, 24 hours a day, and responds to incidents remotely, or by going on-site if necessary.
February 2009
Sale of multiple HP-UX servers and storage, including MC ServiceGuard Clustering configuration for New York based order fulfillment company.
January 2009
Performed Zero-Downtime relocation of
12 production servers for a large Mid-West distributor of building supplies.
December 2008
Sale of Application Support contracts to French and Australian companies with 24
x 7 Support.
November 2008
Performed technical study, recommended, sold, and installed power equipment
worth $500,000 to a Southern California college.
October 2008
$500,000 sale of IBM servers and storage to Virginia based company.
September 2008
$900,000 sale of high-end servers and storage to California based defense contractor. Abtech
designed complex multi-vendor virtualized SAN and server environment, completed
hardware and software implementation, and will perform 5 years of onsite support
and ongoing software consulting.
August 2008
Obtained nationwide service contract for HP-UX support with retail organization.
July 2008
National Organization signed contract for Managed Services including 24 x 7
monitoring, Remote System Administration, hardware support, help desk, backup
monitoring and anti-virus management.
June 2008
National automobile accessory company appointed Abtech to support their
infrastructure of IBM P-series computer and peripherals.
May 2008
Signed California and Mexico based electronics company to support their HP-UX and MPE
systems in both countries.
April 2008
Signed contract to support international telecom organization and will service
UNIX servers across the US, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Bolivia, and Surinam in South
America.
March 2008
International computer manufacturer signed Abtech to support their Sun and
HP9000 equipment in both the USA and UK.
February 2008
US Government department awards Abtech maintenance contract for their large UNIX
datacenter.
January 2008
National healthcare organization contracts with Abtech to provide hardware and
software support for the main data-center.




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