Vital Support Systems Solutions

OpenVMS, VAX Migration, Tru64 Migration, and Alpha Migration Solutions

Vital Support Systems offers consulting services and technology from HP to assist IT organizations move older VAX OpenVMS applications forward utilizing emulation technology. For customers on TRU64 Alpha platforms, Vital Support Systems has consulting expertise to assist those IT organizations in the migration of those applications to HP-UX on Integrity Servers. For Alpha OpenVMS IT organizations, Vital Support Systems offers assistance in migration from Alpha OpenVMS to Integrity OpenVMS. Vital Support Systems is an HP Elite Business Critical Server and High Performance/Open Systems HP Elite Partner. Vital has an extensive BCS customer demonstration center in its Kansas City data center.

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Backup and Recovery of VMware Solutions

As IT organizations adopt VMware, the need to be able to recover a VMware based environment is increasing. Vital Support Systems has extensive experience in assisting customers in being able to implement a wide range of Vmware recovery from Bare Metal to a single file. Vital Support Systems focuses on the depth and breadth of functionality of HP’s Data Protector backup/recovery application. Vital Support Systems has experience with Vizioncore Ranger. Vital Support Systems can assist IT organizations in developing and implementing robust Backup/Recovery solutions for VMware. Vital Support Systems is an HP Information Management Elite Partner. Vital can demonstrate backup/recovery technology for VMware in its Kansas City demo center.

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Vital Support Systems Citrix Solutions

As a trusted advisor Vital Support Systems can assist companies to effectively deliver applications to their application end users. Our Citrix certified engineers and sales staff can help IT professionals design and implement Citrix infrastructure solutions that offer the best performance and availability, greatest security, and best value. These solutions enable IT teams and their executives to enable all services organizations to deliver new and existing application services faster, improve customer service, control risk, and reduce costs.

WithVital Support Systems Solutions and Citrix Application Infrastructure Delivery Ssolutions You Can:

• Extend applications and information to other offices, and mobile workers
• Meet government and industry regulations
• Easily and quickly deliver any application to geographically dispersed call centers, while assuring application security and protecting intellectual property
• Increase the productivity of mobile workers using wired and wireless devices, by delivering applications with the best performance and highest security
• Enable centralized management and control of complex, diverse enterprise applications
• Ensure application availability and peak performance for Web applications, with advanced optimization and load balancing capabilities
• Improve application security, and increase user satisfaction and productivity, by providing single sign-on capability to users accessing Windows applications
• Enable effective workforce continuity and disaster recovery strategies
• Ensure online privacy of sensitive data from end to end, while accelerating Web application performance
• Protect against distributed denial of service (DOS), worm, and virus attacks, and application-level intrusions that threaten Web application security and performance

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End User Workplace Solutions

Vital Support Systems delivers a full range of end user solutions based upon the technologies of HP and our software partners. In order for you to stay productive, your users need technology to function reliably, whenever and wherever they are working. Our desktop solutions provide the full spectrum of lifecycle support for a variety of end-user devices and applications. By leveraging HP's global delivery capabilities through technology, tools and processes, and flexible financing options, and the products and services of our solftware partners, Vital Support Systems can help you achieve more efficient asset management and predictable IT costs.

Vital can put in place solutions to help your team:

• Create a boundary-less workplace that gives end users the ability to connect, communicate and collaborate
• Reduce IT complexity by streamlining and consolidating the IT environment
• Predict and control IT costs while increasing end-user productivity

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HP C Class Blade Solutions

Vital Support Systems is an HP Blade Elite Partner. HP’s C Class Blades bring advanced technology to the IT business activity of Server Consolidation. Blades are most effective when the management and Virtual Connect elements are implemented. Vital Support Systems has extensive experience architecting and implementing HP C Class Blade solutions. Vital can demonstrate all of HP’s C Class Blade technology in its Kansas City demo center.

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Microsoft Exchange Solutions

Microsoft Exchange is one of the most critical applications in any company and as such can demand significant resources in terms of hardware costs, systems management, and of course the time and energy of the IT department. As a critical application that requires significant resources in terms of network bandwidth, data storage, and processing power it is no surprise that IT professionals consider Exchange one of their primary concerns. HP, Microsoft and Vital – driving better business outcomes

Offering comprehensive product portfolios—Network, Security, Server, Storage and Management Vital Support Systems—the Midwest’s leading provider of technology solutions for systems and networks—combines deep technical knowledge with a strong business focus to deliver enterprise-class solutions that work. Vital delivers comprehensive Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 solutions that help you:

• Increase productivity – Your MicrosoftExchange solution will help you improve teamworkand business processes by providing enhanced calendaring, out-of-office, resource booking and meeting scheduling capabilities. Your solution will also improve quality and speed of delivery of information and services; deliver internal services faster and more efficiently; and provide secure, online access to employee services from internal functions (such as finance or HR).
• Reduce costs – With a consolidated solution, you can avoid duplication of effort by sharing information more effectively, reduce costs of paper-based documentation/archives with more cost-effective online archives, and lower training costs.
• Deliver more types of communications to the Inbox – In addition to e-mails, faxes and voicemails, your next-generation solution offers many new capabilities including: voice access from any standard telephone, a rich Microsoft Office Outlook-like experience from any Internet-connected computer’ powerful search, and the ability to view many different types of attachments. Leveraging advanced telephony skills, Vital can help you take full advantage of these new capabilities.
• Improve team collaboration – Teams and departments can easily organize, share and provision collaboration sites, as well as facilitate end-to-end document and content collaboration throughout your organization.
• Simple administration – Even administrators have anywhere access, using remote management capabilities for HP ProLiant servers. With Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) technology, your administrators can access the server console and install updates at anytime, from virtually anywhere.

Microsoft Exchange 2007 and Email Archiving Solutions:

Vital Support Systems is an HP Exchange Elite Solution Partner with extensive experience assisting mid market business in migration from earlier versions of Microsoft Exchange to Exchange 2007. In addition, Vital Support Systems represents Mimosa Email archiving solution. The combination of Exchange 2007 with Mimosa System’s Email Achieving may bring significant business value to a mid market organization. There are many features to Exchange 2007 that can add significant value to any organization. Vital Support Systems experience makes it possible to consult with business on how best to capture these new features into their organization. Email achieving is a growing business need. Vital Support Systems is an HP Information Management Elite Solution Partner. Mimosa Systems is an HP IM Partner. Vital’s consultants can assist mid market business in improving the business value of their email solutions.

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SQL Server Consolidation Solutions

SQL Server is a powerful business technology. Overtime business find they have multiple instances of this data base. Consolidation of SQL Server can simplify IT practices and provide improved levels of service. Vital Support Systems is a HP SQL Server Elite Solution Partner with extensive knowledge and experience architecting and implementing consolidations of SQL Server. A valuable technology in such consolidations is HP’s Polyserve for SQL Server. This technology can improve availability while at the same time reducing the number of physical servers. Vital Support Systems can demonstrate this technology in its Kansas City demo center.

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Oracle RAC Solutions

Oracle RAC brings significant benefits to organizations. Vital Support Systems is an HP Oracle Elite Partner and has extensive experience assisting IT organizations in architecting and implementing Oracle RAC, especially on HP C-Class Blades. Vital is able to consult with IT organizations on the benefits of using traditional SAN based block storage for Oracle RAC or HP’s Polyserve shared file system for Oracle providing Direct NFS storage. Vital Support Systems is able to demonstrate these valuable technologies in its Kansas City demo center.

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Server Solutions

Every corporate IT department juggles competing priorities at one time or another: How to increase revenue and cut costs? How to maintain ongoing operations and complete projects already underway while also getting new projects off the ground? Vital Support Systems has a complete range of Servers products and services to deliver so you have to compromise.

Whether your organization runs Unix/Linux, Windows or both, Vital has certified expertise to keep your mission critical servers running. From design and installation to ongoing support, companies all over the Midwest are calling on Vital to assist them with their Unix/Linux and Windows business needs. Vital specializes in complex environments such as clustered Linux and Windows servers running Exchange and mission critical applications to clustered HP-UX & Linux servers supporting thousands of internet users.

And our solutions are based on HP products. With the broadest portfolio in the industry, HP delivers superior choice that can reliably support any need, from basic infrastructure to the most demanding business applications. Our commitment to focused innovation allows customers to do more with less. We bring it all together through our services, expertise and ongoing support delivering a world-class experience to your business.

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Storage Solutions

IT organizations continue to face the challenge of increasing data growth and the management challenges it brings. Larger and less expensive disk drives have made it easy for IT organizations to avoid the activity of consolidation of storage and data. The consequences of avoiding Data Consolidation is that Backup windows may be growing and the time it takes to recovery from storage device failures is unacceptable in today’s work environments. As disk drives get larger, stranded capacity continues to be a challenge. Consolidation of storage is more important than ever. Vital Support Systems is an HP Information Management Elite Partner. Vital has data collection technologies than may assist IT Organizations in understanding the nature of their data and the amount of stranded capacity. Vital is able to consult with IT Organizations on the benefits of IM technology, SANS and iSCSI SANs. Vital Support Systems can demonstrate this technology in its Kansas City demo center. Some of the technologies hosted in the demo center are SRM tools, File Migration tools and single file instance technology.

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Virtual Tape Solutions

IT Organizations in order to meet their SLA commitment to the business are learning that backing up data to disk and then to tape is good IT practice. Virtual Tape technology offers much more than simple disk. Virtual Tape, while physically a disk drive, looks to the backup application like a tape drive and a tape library. De-duplication of data is assisting in solving the growing size of backups. Vital Support Systems is an HP Information Management Elite Partner and is experienced with Virtual Tape and de-duplication. Vital hosts these technologies in its Kansas City demo center. Vital’s consultants can assist IT organizations in understanding how Virtual Tape based solutions can assist them in achieving their SLA commitment to the business.

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VMware Implementation Solution

As VMware moves from a technology that IT organizations have been investigating to core production technologies the need for IT consulting services to assist IT organizations has increased. Vital Support Systems is an HP VMware Elite Partner. Vital, with its depth and breadth of experience and expertise can assist IT organizations in understanding how to leverage their SAN or implement iSCSI SAN to support all the functionality of VMware. Vital Support Systems has developed a highly repeatable implementation service for VMware. Vital’s KC demo center hosts VMware on HP C Class Blades with and EVA SAN and an iSCSI SAN. This demo center is available to the IT community.

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