Low cost Intel based servers

• Cluster of commodity Intel machines running linux provides similar performance to Big Metal from Sun, HP and IBM at about ¼ the cost

• Huge reduction in per-user licenses for proprietary OS

  • 2000 users for email and fileserver
  • 500 concurrent users on a variety of services

• 4 application servers

  • Dual CPU 2U rackmount machines (8 x 1GHz CPUs)
  • 10GB RAM (4 x 2.5GB)

• 2 firewalls, 2 development servers, 1 backup and management server all running Linux