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Isabel Avoids Economic Disaster With HP Business Continuity and Availability Solutions

Overview Brussels-based Isabel, which is owned by Belgium's four main banks and was established in 1996 to provide companies with a mechanism for conducting secure electronic transactions. Belgian financial broker, Isabel, needed to provide customers with vital business continuity and availability of its IT systems 24x7. With the help of HP, Isabel builds redundancy and security into its hardware and communication platforms, and also into its manpower. New server and storage infrastructures based on HP AlphaServer systems. Storage Area Network (SAN) with additional Network Attached Storage (NAS), predominantly for Linux.

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Publisher	Hewlett-Packard	File Format	PDF
Date Published	April 2007
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Linux - Open Source, SANs, Linux Server OS

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