Abtech Systems Corporate Announcements & Press Releases

Abtech Systems is proud to announce that it has been appointed as a Red Hat Advanced Partner. Abtech is one of the fastest growing Red Hat partners on the West Coast and has aggressive targets for growing its Linux solutions business. We have invested heavily in our Linux skills particularly around UNIX to Linux migration and virtualization. "Red Hat is a key part of our Linux strategy" said Nigel Wright, who heads up the Linux solutions business for Abtech. "As Advanced Partners we can work closely with Red Hat to develop our Linux business. They are No.1 in Linux and their virtualization and cloud computing solutions offer many advantages over competitive products. We see many opportunities to grow our mutual business." Abtech offers the complete range of Red Hat products and solutions including: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Virtualization, JBoss Middleware and Red Hat Cloud Foundations. In addition, Abtech offers a range of services and consultancy to provide customers with complete solutions. We also have a range of Linux managed services to complement our established Windows and UNIX managed services offerings.

Abtech Support is now providing services to a government defense contractor who manufactures rocket engines. The services 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.

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!”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Abtech Support closed a long term business continuity contract with a Southern California college for its 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.

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.

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.

Sale of multiple HP-UX servers and storage, including MC ServiceGuard Clustering configuration for New York based order fulfillment company.