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Corporate Information Management Services (CIMS)
relies on forward-looking solutions and services from
HP and Microsoft® to play a part in fulfilling this
government mandate.
relies on forward-looking solutions and services from
HP and Microsoft® to play a part in fulfilling this
government mandate.
Government of New Brunswick depends on reliable
technology partners
GNB CIMS recently upgraded their messaging
solution from Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 to
Exchange Server 2007, running on an HP ProLiant
Server and StorageWorks platform. Solution Architect
Darren Shears describes the central importance of
the solution to government operations: “The GNB
Exchange system supports all of the direct government
employees and their e-mail. Active Directory manages
all government operations, from regular civil servants
to education, hospitals and points of sale, so it has to
be available 7x24x365.”
technology partners
GNB CIMS recently upgraded their messaging
solution from Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 to
Exchange Server 2007, running on an HP ProLiant
Server and StorageWorks platform. Solution Architect
Darren Shears describes the central importance of
the solution to government operations: “The GNB
Exchange system supports all of the direct government
employees and their e-mail. Active Directory manages
all government operations, from regular civil servants
to education, hospitals and points of sale, so it has to
be available 7x24x365.”
Shears says that during the last five years, there has
never been a time when users could not authenticate
to Active Directory, given a working network
connection. “It’s very distributed, and always up,”
he comments, “Active Directory is one of the best
products Microsoft ever issued in terms of uptime,
manageability and reliability.”
never been a time when users could not authenticate
to Active Directory, given a working network
connection. “It’s very distributed, and always up,”
he comments, “Active Directory is one of the best
products Microsoft ever issued in terms of uptime,
manageability and reliability.”
The relationship with HP is based on similar
confidence and reliance, and an understanding
of the value of HP’s converged storage and server
solutions. “Based on our design process, we’ve gone
with the HP platform as a standard for our past three
Exchange iterations,” remarks Shears, “and the HP
platform has been good to us.”
confidence and reliance, and an understanding
of the value of HP’s converged storage and server
solutions. “Based on our design process, we’ve gone
with the HP platform as a standard for our past three
Exchange iterations,” remarks Shears, “and the HP
platform has been good to us.”
In this 225 year-old province, history counts
When GNB upgraded to Microsoft Exchange Server
2003 (in May 2004), HP and Microsoft pre-built and
load-tested the entire environment in their own labs.
The two alliance partners made sure the HP ProLiant
Blade Servers, HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual
Arrays (EVAs), and the HP Enterprise Storage Library
(ESL) could handle the Exchange migration with the
large mailbox capacities GNB required.
When GNB upgraded to Microsoft Exchange Server
2003 (in May 2004), HP and Microsoft pre-built and
load-tested the entire environment in their own labs.
The two alliance partners made sure the HP ProLiant
Blade Servers, HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual
Arrays (EVAs), and the HP Enterprise Storage Library
(ESL) could handle the Exchange migration with the
large mailbox capacities GNB required.
In 2009, when it was time for the move to Exchange
Server 2007, GNB undertook another hardware
refresh, including a new HP EVA, the HP EML tape
library, and the HP BladeSystem c-Class enclosures
and server blades. Before the upgrade took
place, HP was able to ensure capacity for GNB’s
14,000-16,000 users on Exchange Server 2007,
plus the potential to grow to 40,000 mailboxes if
departmental jurisdictions were to change – for
example by the inclusion of educational services.
Server 2007, GNB undertook another hardware
refresh, including a new HP EVA, the HP EML tape
library, and the HP BladeSystem c-Class enclosures
and server blades. Before the upgrade took
place, HP was able to ensure capacity for GNB’s
14,000-16,000 users on Exchange Server 2007,
plus the potential to grow to 40,000 mailboxes if
departmental jurisdictions were to change – for
example by the inclusion of educational services.
The installations went smoothly, according to Shears.
“Thanks to the inherent simplicity of everything,
we were able to quickly ramp up new hardware,
taking advantage of HP Virtual Connect and the HP
BladeSystem enclosures.”
“Thanks to the inherent simplicity of everything,
we were able to quickly ramp up new hardware,
taking advantage of HP Virtual Connect and the HP
BladeSystem enclosures.”
Fortunately for GNB, it’s possible for history to repeat
itself. “Soon I’ll be ready to start spec’ing out the new
gear, says Shears. “I’ll begin to design for Microsoft
Exchange Server 2010 as soon as I get Exchange
Server 2007 deployed.”
itself. “Soon I’ll be ready to start spec’ing out the new
gear, says Shears. “I’ll begin to design for Microsoft
Exchange Server 2010 as soon as I get Exchange
Server 2007 deployed.”
“Based on our design process, we’ve gone with
the HP platform as a standard for our past three
Exchange iterations, and the HP platform has been
good to us.”
the HP platform as a standard for our past three
Exchange iterations, and the HP platform has been
good to us.”
– Darren Shears, Technical Architect, Corporate
Information Management Services, Government
of New Brunswick
of New Brunswick