Integrity upgrades for NWF, Duffields, Dukes & Botley, Carrs Agriculture and Lakeland Dairies

The first stage of the move to MySQL and the Browser is the purchase of the new HP Integrity range of hardware to replace existing AlphaServers.  In May 2007 we announced that MVFS had just implemented the first live Integrity server running MillMaster and we have now installed Integrity servers at Hi Peak, NWF, Duffields, Dukes & Botley, Lakeland Dairies, Carrs and J H Roche and more are planned this year.

So why did we choose HP and Integrity to provide the infrastructure for BMS and MillMaster?

The Business challenge we set for Integrity
Deliver a flexible, cost effective IT infrastructure with the performance, reliability, and simplicity to support business and MillMaster change - now and in the future. 

HP the supplier that supports partners such as BMS
HP has a history of innovation and investment; providing a wide range of mission critical solutions across all markets, working with a wide range of software vendors such as SAP, Oracle and also BMS.    Commercially, HP Server revenue is up 71% in the last twelve months, outpacing the rest of the server market.  HP, with the Integrity hardware and OpenVMS roadmaps, added significant credibility to the BMS proposal to MVFS in June 2006 to choose MillMaster - a roadmap that we have delivered on time and on budget.    

Disaster tolerance to support your business
HP Integrity, the most trusted hardware platform for scaleable mission-critical operations incorporates the latest processors, disks and components ensuring that you can run your business 24x7 with absolute confidence.  Customers such as Carrs operate mills around the clock and need to be able to rely on the hardware to ensure despatch documentation can be generated at any time, day or night. 

Business growth support
Integrity allows you to scale your hardware to meet the needs of a growing business, adding more raw processor power and more disk space quickly and easily.  Whether you are looking to grow your business by acquisition or organic expansion, you have to know that hardware will not constrain your aspirations. 

Environmental impact reduction
Right at the top of the business agenda today is the concern for a reduction in environmental impact and cost.  Integrity, with significant reduction in power usage and heat generation via various energy efficient components such as dual core Integrity processors, helps reduce that environmental footprint.

Integrity brings results
Customers using Integrity servers have been very complimentary about their performance.Carrs are running the latest Integrity rx3600 for around 170 MillMaster users across a number of sites and businesses including agriculture, fertiliser, flour, retail and oil.  Neil McGuiness, IT Manager at Carrs commented “there has been a very noticeable improvement in speed compared to the AlphaServer DS25.  This has allowed us to push through more work in a shorter time, giving us a real bottom line benefit from this investment”.